How to setup DKAN on a Google Cloud VM Instance

Dave Menninger
Nov 4 · 7 min read

Are you interested in setting up an open data platform for your city government or nonprofit service community? But perhaps you don’t have a huge budget or a ton of technical expertise?

Enter DKAN which is “a community-driven, free and open source open data platform that gives organizations and individuals ultimate freedom to publish and consume structured information.” Because there’s a substantial overlap between content management systems and publishing open data at scale, DKAN decided to build their solution on top of Drupal, a CMS that is also…

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