Galaxy Server administration

Resources related to configuration and maintenance of Galaxy servers

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Material

Core

These are the core, foundational topics for the majority of administration in Galaxy.

Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
Galaxy from an administrator's point of view
Ansible
    • Galaxy Installation with Ansible

    • Jobs & Scheduling

    Learn how to use DRMAA and other resources to schedule your jobs on clusters

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    Connecting Galaxy to a compute cluster
    Galaxy and Celery
    Mapping Jobs to Destinations
    • Running Jobs on Remote Resources with Pulsar
    • Use Singularity containers for running Galaxy jobs

    • Data Management & Reference Data

    Manage data like a pro: tips on scaling to 1PB and more.

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    Data Libraries
    • Distributed Object Storage
    Reference Data with CVMFS
    • Reference Data with CVMFS without Ansible
    Reference Genomes in Galaxy

    Further Learning

    These topics will let you further expand your knowledge. They all build upon what you learned in the core topics, and many expect that you have a setup identical to the one started in the core trainings.

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    Automation with Jenkins
    Enable upload via FTP
    External Authentication
    Galaxy Interactive Tools
    • Galaxy Tool Management with Ephemeris
    • How I learned to stop worrying and love the systemd
    Performant Uploads with TUS
    • Training Infrastructure as a Service (TIaaS)

    • Running Galaxy on the Cloud

    If acronyms like EKS, EC2, GCP, ECS, K8S mean anything to you, then you've found where your home! Run Galaxy on someone else's computer with Cloud based tutorials

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    Deploying Tailscale/Headscale for private mesh networking
    Deploying Wireguard for private mesh networking
    Galaxy on the Cloud
    Managing Galaxy on Kubernetes
    Galaxy Installation on Kubernetes
    Deploying a compute cluster in OpenStack via Terraform

    Maintaining a Production Galaxy

    Deployed Galaxy? Now what? All of the knowledge you need to maintain it long term.

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    Galaxy Troubleshooting
    Gearing towards production
    Server Maintenance and Backups
    • Upgrading Galaxy
    • User, Role, Group and Quota managment

    • Monitoring

    Monitor Galaxy like UseGalaxy.eu, learn the ins and outs of monitoring

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    Galaxy Monitoring
    Galaxy Monitoring with gxadmin
    • Galaxy Monitoring with Reports
    Galaxy Monitoring with Telegraf and Grafana

    • Deprecated Tutorials

    Please do not run these. They are outdated and for historical, archival purposes only.

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    uWSGI

    Other


    Assorted tutorials

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    Advanced customisation of a Galaxy instance
    Controlling Galaxy with systemd or Supervisor
    Docker and Galaxy
    Empathy
    Galactic Database
    Galaxy Database schema

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Common questions regarding this topic have been collected on a dedicated FAQ page . Common questions related to specific tutorials can be accessed from the tutorials themselves.

    Maintainers

    This material is maintained by:

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