Add (but not enable) STAC plugin by default

images/README.md

@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ additional tags:
 
 All the available tags can be found [here](https://quay.io/repository/jupyter-remote-desktop-proxy/qgis?tab=tags)
 
+QGIS plugins that are deemed useful when working in the cloud are included
+by default. This currently includes the following plugins:
+
+1. [QGIS STAC API browser](https://stac-utils.github.io/qgis-stac-plugin/)
+
+However, these are not _enabled_ by default. The user still has to go to the
+plugins menu and enable them.
+
 ## Policy for adding images
 
 To reduce maintenance burden, we will only accept maintaining images here that

images/qgis/Dockerfile

@@ -4,5 +4,8 @@ FROM ${IMAGE_PREFIX}base:latest
 RUN mamba install -c conda-forge --yes \
     qgis
 
+COPY --chown=1000:1000 setup-qgis-plugins.bash /tmp/setup-qgis-plugins.bash
+RUN /tmp/setup-qgis-plugins.bash && rm /tmp/setup-qgis-plugins.bash
+
 COPY qgis.desktop ${DESKTOP_FILES_DIR}/qgis.desktop
 COPY qgis.xml ${MIME_FILES_DIR}/qgis.xml

images/qgis/setup-qgis-plugins.bash

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Sets up various QGIS plugins that are useful when running
+# on the cloud
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# First, let's install the plugin manager
+# Install from pip until https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/23971
+# is merged and available from `conda-forge`
+pip install --no-cache qgis-plugin-manager
+
+# Tell qgis-plugin-manager where our qgis plugins are
+export QGIS_PLUGINPATH=/opt/conda/share/qgis/python/plugins
+
+# Initialize the qgis plugin manager
+qgis-plugin-manager init
+qgis-plugin-manager update
+
+# Install the STAC API Browser plugin: https://stac-utils.github.io/qgis-stac-plugin/
+qgis-plugin-manager install "STAC API Browser"