Layers published to federated servers

To share data to ArcGIS Enterprise, you can publish layers from ArcGIS Pro to one of your portal's federated servers, or, if you own a database data store item, publish all accessible feature classes and tables from the data store item in the portal.

Once published, you can use the layers described in the next sections in the maps and apps you create.

What you can publish to federated servers from ArcGIS Pro

To publish layers from ArcGIS Pro that reference your source data, you must register the folder, database, or enterprise geodatabase that contains the data with the federated server. You can register the data source in ArcGIS Pro or add the data source as a data store item in the portal. You can then publish to one of the federated servers with which you registered your data source.ArcGIS Pro 2.7 is the minimum supported version you can use to publish to ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes.

What you can publish to a federated server from ArcGIS Pro depends on the type of data present in the map from which you publish.

If you publish vector data from a data store that is registered with a federated ArcGIS GIS Server site, you can publish a map image layer and layers associated with the map image layer as follows:

  • If you choose only the Map Image option, publishing creates a map service on the federated server and a map image layer item in your ArcGIS Enterprise organization.
  • If you choose both the Map Image and Feature options, publishing creates a map service with feature access capabilities enabled on the federated server and creates a map image layer item and feature layer item in your organization.
  • If you choose both the Map Image and WMS options, publishing creates a map service with the WMS capability enabled on the federated server and creates a map image layer item and a WMS item in your organization.
  • If you choose both the Map Image, Feature, and WFS options, publishing creates a map service with the feature access and WFS capability enabled on the federated server and creates a map image layer item, feature layer item, and WFS item in your organization.

You have the option to cache your map image layer when publishing to one of the portal's federated servers or the server labeled (Hosting Server).

Tip:

For more information on the relationship between services and ArcGIS Enterprise layers, see ArcGIS Server web services.

For instructions on publishing from ArcGIS Pro, see Introduction to sharing web layers in the ArcGIS Pro help.

What you can publish from a data store item

When you add a database data store item to your organization, it registers the database with the servers you specify. When you publish content from a database data store item in the portal, you publish map services with feature access enabled to one of those federated servers.

Item and service dependencies

How an item is created affects the relationship between the portal item and the underlying service, which, in turn, affects how you manage the portal item. See Services and portal items for information on item and service dependencies and the impact on editing and deleting items.