GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data. It is often used to publish shapefiles and PostGIS tables (Vector data), ArcGrid and GeoTiff (Raster data). Moreover, it also allows for configuration of (cascading) remote WMS. Deltares maintains its own instance of GeoServer here. Data layers from GeoServer can be exposed in via WMS/WFS in many standard formats for subsequent public use.
This tutorial refers to GeoServer <stable> version 2.8.2. Since the stable version of GeoServer does not allow ingestion of NetCDF as input Coverage Format, Geoserver Extension can be installed from http://geoserver.org/release/2.8.x/. For any of the following steps, the easiest way to work with NetCDF Coverage input is to use the user interface provided by GeoServer installation. However, for reasons of efficiency and process automation a client might prefer to work with the REST API GeoServer provides. The REST configuration allows you to work with bindings from various programming languages or simply with cURL command line tool.
Adding a NetCDF data store
GeoServer User interface
RESTful interface
