Galaxy Server administration
Here you can learn everything you need to become a Pro Galaxy Administrator! These resources cover everything from setup, to configuration, to monitoring, to customisation.
Galaxy admins chat on Matrix, do not hesitate to ask questions there
cta.icon Community Matrix ChatAdministrating your own (small) (local) instance? Other admins are meeting regularly to discuss issues/problems and solutions. If you are interested, check out the webpage:
cta.icon Small scale Galaxy Admins Community of Practice WebsiteNot sure where to start?
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Material
You can view the tutorial materials in different languages by clicking the dropdown icon next to the slides (slides) and tutorial (tutorial) buttons below.Core
These are the core, foundational topics for the majority of administration in Galaxy.
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| Ansible | |||
| Galaxy Installation with Ansible | |||
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Galaxy from an administrator's point of view
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Jobs & Scheduling
Learn how to use DRMAA and other resources to schedule your jobs on clusters
Data Management & Reference Data
Manage data like a pro: tips on scaling to 1PB and more.
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.
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
Maintaining a Production Galaxy
Deployed Galaxy? Now what? All of the knowledge you need to maintain it long term.
Monitoring
Monitor Galaxy like UseGalaxy.eu, learn the ins and outs of monitoring
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Galaxy Monitoring
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| Galaxy Monitoring with Telegraf and Grafana | |||
| Galaxy Monitoring with gxadmin | |||
| Monitoring Galaxy and Pulsar with Sentry |
Deprecated Tutorials
Please do not run these. They are outdated and for historical, archival purposes only.
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Advanced customisation of a Galaxy instance
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Controlling Galaxy with systemd or Supervisor
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uWSGI
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Other
Assorted Tutorials
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| Create a subdomain for your community on UseGalaxy.eu | |||
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Docker and Galaxy
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Empathy
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Galactic Database
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Galaxy Database schema
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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.
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Community Resources
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This material is reviewed by our Editorial Board:
Helena Rasche
Nate Coraor
Björn Grüning
Martin Čech
Mira Kuntz
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Contributors
This material was contributed to by:
Paul De Geest
Bartosz Walkowicz
Pablo Moreno
Martin Čech
Anne Fouilloux
Gildas Le Corguillé
Torfinn Nome
Matthias Bernt
Alex Mahmoud
Edwin den Haas
José Manuel Domínguez
Gianmauro Cuccuru
Yvan Le Bras
Łukasz Opioła
Lucille Delisle
John Davis
Mélanie Petera
Mirela Minkova
Helena Rasche
John Chilton
Simon Gladman
Laila Los
Dave B.
Armin Dadras
Hans-Rudolf Hotz
Catherine Bromhead
Bérénice Batut
Nicola Soranzo
Björn Grüning
Enis Afgan
Anthony Bretaudeau
Saskia Hiltemann
Peter van Heusden
Dawa Ometto
Niall Beard
Vlad Visan
Tomas Klingström
Daniel Blankenberg
Marius van den Beek
Nuwan Goonasekera
Abdulrahman Azab
Cristóbal Gallardo
Tunc Kayikcioglu
Marie Josse
Mira Kuntz
Valentin Marcon
Kweyakie Afi Blebo
Nate Coraor
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