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.
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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 They are outdated and for historical, archival purposes only.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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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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Editorial Board
This material is reviewed by our Editorial Board:
Helena Rasche
Nate Coraor
Simon Gladman
Björn Grüning
Martin Čech
Contributors
This material was contributed to by:
Vlad Visan
Laila Los
Anthony Bretaudeau
Edwin den Haas
Enis Afgan
Daniel Blankenberg
Martin Čech
Lucille Delisle
Nuwan Goonasekera
Matthias Bernt
Gildas Le Corguillé
Catherine Bromhead
Saskia Hiltemann
José Manuel Domínguez
Gianmauro Cuccuru
Hans-Rudolf Hotz
Marius van den Beek
Mira Kuntz
Björn Grüning
Pablo Moreno
Dave B.
Simon Gladman
Bérénice Batut
Nicola Soranzo
Alex Mahmoud
Nate Coraor
Valentin Marcon
John Davis
John Chilton
Abdulrahman Azab
Helena Rasche
Torfinn Nome
Funding
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