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Galaxy Interactive Tools

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last_modification Last modification: Jun 14, 2022

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2015

@hexylena, @bgruening, and @jmchilton create Galaxy Interactive Environments (GIEs)

GIEs use Galaxy’s visualization framework to run certain types of interactive visualizations (e.g. Jupyter Notebook)

GIEs run in a docker container on the Galaxy server or a single remote Docker server

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History

2016

Support for Docker Swarm is added, allowing running a cluster for GIEs

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History

2019

@blankenberg creates Galaxy Interactive Tools (GxITs)

Building on the GIE concept, but run as tools

Tools run just as any other Galaxy job (e.g. via Slurm, HTCondor)

You will sometimes see Interactive Tools referred to as Interactive Environments version 2

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Tool config syntax

<tool id="interactive_tool_jupyter_notebook" tool_type="interactive" name="Interactive Jupyter Notebook" version="0.1">
    <requirements>
        <container type="docker">quay.io/bgruening/docker-jupyter-notebook:ie2</container>
    </requirements>
    <entry_points>
        <entry_point name="Jupyter Interactive Tool" requires_domain="True">
            <port>8888</port>
            <url>ipython/lab</url>
        </entry_point>
    </entry_points>
</tool>

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Mapping clients to containers

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Anatomy of a running Interactive Tool

Galaxy Interactive Tools Proxy Diagram

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Galaxy configuration

Enable docker on a destination in job_conf.xml and assign your GxITs to that destination

.left[Set in galaxy.yml:]

interactivetools_enable: true
interactivetools_map: /srv/galaxy/var/gie-proxy-sessions.sqlite

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Proxy configuration

Use the proxy configuration that ships with Galaxy

Or the Node.js-based proxy

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Security

The default docker-enabled container exposes all datasets to the tool

Normally this isn’t bad (normal tools can’t be controlled by the user)

Interactive tools are fully user controllable

Solution: Embedded Pulsar

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Embedded Pulsar

Runs a Pulsar server within the Galaxy application to “stage” (i.e. copy) inputs.

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Thank you!

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