Missing MapBox Token when using Apache Superset with Docker

Question

I've installed Apache Superset according to this official manual. I can create plots, connect to databases etc. without any problems, only if I want to plot latitude and longitude data with a mapbox or deck.gl plots, I get this warning and can't see any maps:

NO_TOKEN_WARNING For information on setting up your basemap, read Note on Map Tokens

I have a MapBox-Api-Key (lets say XXYYZZ) and followed instructions where I created a superset_config.py file in the home folder of the server where superset is running. This is the code I used:

Entries in .bashrc

export SUPERSET_HOME=/home/maximus/envs/superset/lib/python3.6/site-packages/superset export SUPERSET_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/.superset/superset_config.py export PYTHONPATH=/home/maximus/envs/superset/bin/python:/home/maximus/.superset:$PYTHONPATH

Created superset_confiy.py in .superset

path: $ ~/.superset/superset_config.py

with following code

#---------------------------------------------------------
# Superset specific config
#---------------------------------------------------------
ROW_LIMIT = 50000

MAPBOX_API_KEY = 'XXYYZZ'

As I'm using docker, I thought maybe I need to to the same within the main docker container of superset (superset_app) but it still does not work.

My server runs on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Anyone any ideas on how to solve this problem with docker, superset and mapbox?

Answer 1

I solved the problem by adding my mapbox token (XXYYZZ) to the docker environment file which is used by docker-compose.

This is what I did in detail:

• As superset runs on my server I connected via ssh
• Stop superset with docker-compose down
• cd into the docker folder within the folder where the docker-compose files is --> cd superset/docker
• I was running the non-dev version with docker-compose, therefore I opened the .env-non-dev file with nano. If you run the "normal" version just edit the .env file instead.

Comment: I'm not sure if this is the supposed way, but apparently you can edit the environmental parameters.

• I added my Mapbox Key (MAPBOX_API_KEY = "XXYYZZ")
• Finally just start superset again with docker-compose -f docker-compose-non-dev.yml up -d or docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d respectively.

Thats all, I can now see the maps when opening the deck.gl sample dashboard.

Answer 2

The documentation and a youtube video tutorial seem outdated. For the most recent release: clone the superset repo; add the MAPBOX_API_KEY to the superset/config.py or docker/pythonpath_dev/superset_config.py; then docker-compose up solved the problem