2025-09-03T10:13:19+00:00
The ins and outs of setting up your own production quality Galaxy server
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🚀 Survey about a week-long Galaxy Admin Training in Europe 🇪🇺
Published: 2025-04-16T00:00:00+00:00
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Using Pulsar via the SURF Research Cloud (SRC) allows researchers to start Pulsar instances on-demand to expand their computational resources and even access GPUs to help and analyze their data in a secure environment following the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
Published: 2024-12-18T14:49:11+00:00
Using Galaxy via the SURF Research Cloud (SRC) allows researchers to start Galaxy instances on-demand and analyze their data in a secure environment following the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). The instance provides secure authentication, where users must have a SURF Research account prior to this tutorial, have set the SURF Research Access Management (SRAM) authentication method, and connect an SSH key to their accounts. In case you are not familiar with SRC and need help in setting up your accounts, please follow the instructions on the SURF Knowledge Base
Published: 2024-12-18T14:49:11+00:00
2024-12-18T14:49:11+00:00
Half-day workshop demonstrating the local Galaxy instance built for users of SURF Research Cloud.
**Registration**: To sign up for the event, please send an email to [Mirela Minkova](mailto:mirela.minkova@surf.nl?subject=Registering%20SRC%20Galaxy%20Workshop)
Published: 2024-12-18T14:49:11+00:00
This tutorial covers how to set up a subdomain on usegalaxy.eu. We will take here the example of the earth system subdomain and follow the step one by one.
Published: 2024-11-27T11:57:56+00:00
Celery is a new component to the Galaxy world (ca 2023) and is a distributed task queue that can be used to run tasks asynchronously. It isn’t mandatory, but you might find some features you expect to use to be missing without it.
Published: 2024-11-07T14:55:31+00:00
Have you ever experienced that you would submit a job but your history wouldn’t update? Maybe it doesn’t scroll or the datasets stay permanently grey even when you know they should be complete, until you refresh the webpage?
Published: 2024-10-30T10:44:58+00:00
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Have you wondered how difficult Galaxy is to run? How much time people must spend to run Galaxy?
Published: 2024-07-22T00:00:00+00:00
##Context
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2024-05-23T14:04:44+00:00
The ins and outs of setting up your own production quality Galaxy server
Published: 2024-05-23T14:04:44+00:00
2024-05-23T14:04:44+00:00
Free, global, training day ahead of the Galaxy Community Conference 2022. This day is meant to get you up to speed with the basics, so that you can get the most out of the training sessions at the GCC2022 conference!
Published: 2024-05-23T14:04:44+00:00
Hey Galaxy admins! Have you ever wanted to administer your own instance from
Published: 2024-01-31T00:00:00+00:00
Data source tools such as UCSC Main will fail if Pulsar is the default destination.
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memray is a great memory profiler for debugging memory issues.
Published: 2023-09-22T09:44:14+00:00
There is a great Tutorial from @mvdbeek which we recommend you follow.
Published: 2023-05-11T13:25:10+00:00
First, restart Galaxy and watch the log for lines like:
Published: 2023-05-11T13:25:10+00:00
Often the tool output contains one of:
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Tool stdout/stderr is available in UI under “i” icon on history dataset
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This generally means that serving of static content is broken:
Published: 2023-05-11T13:25:10+00:00
For slow queries, start with EXPLAIN ANALYZE
Published: 2023-05-11T13:25:10+00:00
Overview
Published: 2023-04-19T12:33:06+00:00
It is possible to map your jobs to use specific storage backends based on user! If you have e.g. specific user groups that need their data stored separately from other users, for whatever political reasons, then in your dynamic destination you can do something like:
Published: 2023-04-16T09:02:56+00:00
This command will let you quickly fail every job from the user ‘service-account’ (replace with your preferred user)
Published: 2023-04-16T09:02:56+00:00
When running setup-data-libraries it imports the library with the permissions of the admin user, rather locked down to the account that handled the importing.
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When looking at git log to see what you changed, you cannot easily look into
Published: 2023-04-16T09:02:56+00:00
Opening a split screen in byobu
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Customizing your Galaxy instance makes it more recognizable at a glance, and can help communicate its purpose to its users.
Published: 2023-04-16T09:02:56+00:00
This tutorial will guide you through setting up a GA4GH Beacon!
Published: 2023-04-16T09:02:56+00:00
Customizing your Galaxy instance makes it more recognizable at a glance, and can help communicate its purpose to its users.
Published: 2023-04-16T09:02:56+00:00
Keeping your Galaxy cleaned up is an important way to retain space, especially since for many groups that is the
Published: 2023-04-16T09:02:56+00:00
Celery is a distributed task queue written in Python that can spawn multiple workers and enables asynchronous task processing on multiple nodes. It supports scheduling, but focuses more on real-time operations.
Published: 2023-04-16T09:02:56+00:00
2023-04-13T15:51:25+00:00
Learn how to setup, configure, and maintain your own Galaxy server. This learning pathway
will guide you through all the steps required to setup your own Galaxy server with Ansible,
configuring it, and making it production ready.
Published: 2023-04-13T15:51:25+00:00
Overview
Published: 2023-03-17T11:29:55+00:00
Tailscale makes secure networking easy, it really is like magic. If you’ve used wireguard before, you know it takes a bit to setup and some configuration if you need to do anything fancy.
Published: 2022-09-21T14:40:57+00:00
In this tutorial we will briefly cover what Wireguard is and how you can leverage it for your needs. This will not make you an expert on Wireguard but will give you the tools you need in order to setup a local Wireguard network.
Published: 2022-09-21T08:23:59+00:00
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Can you eat it?
Published: 2022-07-16T17:42:54+00:00
Many linux sysadmins with years and years of experience bemoan systemd (“it’s infecting everything! Now it wants to mess with time? And DNS???”) and journalctl (“unix was supposed to be about files!”) and while those are fair complaints and make systemd and friends wildly more opaque than traditional SysV and logging to files, there are some benefits that can be obtained, and may be interesting even to the wise old admins. There is a lot of convenience in systemd that can make the tradeoffs worth it.
Published: 2022-07-06T17:13:50+00:00
Start with 2 and add more as needed. If you notice that your jobs seem to inexplicably sit for a long time before being dispatched to the cluster, or after they have finished on the cluster, you may need additional handlers.
Published: 2022-06-07T12:09:49+00:00
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By this reference, YAML doesn’t really care:
Published: 2022-06-07T12:09:49+00:00
You don’t. There is no standard way for reporting this, but well written roles by trusted authors (e.g. geerlingguy, galaxyproject) do it properly and write all of the variables in the README file of the repository. We try to pick sensible roles for you in this course, but, in real life it may not be that simple.
Published: 2022-06-07T12:09:49+00:00
The bare role name is just simplified syntax for the roles, you could equally specifiy role: every time but it’s only necessary if you want to set additional variables like become_user
Published: 2022-06-07T12:09:49+00:00
There can be multiple reasons this happens, so we’ll step through all of them.
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If you forget to use --diff, it is not easy to see what has changed. Some modules like the copy and template modules have a backup option. If you set this option, then it will keep a backup copy next to the destination file.
Published: 2022-06-07T12:09:49+00:00
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When the playbook runs, as part of the setup, it collects any variables that are set. For a playbook affecting a group of hosts named my_hosts, it checks many different places for variables, including “group_vars/my_hosts.yml”. If there are variables there, they’re added to the collection of current variables. It also checks “group_vars/all.yml” (for the built-in host group all). There is a precedence order, but then these variables are available for roles and tasks to consume.
Published: 2022-06-07T12:09:49+00:00
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Published: 2022-03-11T00:00:00+00:00
If you haven’t worked with diffs before, this can be something quite new or different.
Published: 2022-03-01T10:29:25+00:00
Here you’ll learn to setup TUS an open source resumable file upload server to process uploads for Galaxy. We use an external process here to offload the main Galaxy processes for more important work and not impact the entire system during periods of heavy uploading.
Published: 2022-03-01T10:29:25+00:00
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This tutorial will guide you to setup an File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server so galaxy users can use it to upload large files. Indeed, as written on the galaxy community hub, uploading data directly from the browser can be unreliable and cumbersome. FTP will allow users to monitor the upload status as well as resume interrupted transfers.
Published: 2021-06-18T13:52:44+00:00
Overview
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It is possible to have ansible installed on the remote machine and run it there, not just from your local machine connecting to the remote machine.
Published: 2021-03-24T13:50:23+00:00
These Ansible roles and training materials were last tested on Centos 7 and Ubuntu 18.04, but will probably work on other RHEL and Debian variants.
Published: 2021-03-24T13:50:23+00:00
The Galaxy Admins and the GTN instructors community has just run the largest-ever Galaxy Admin training event.
Published: 2021-03-01T00:00:00+00:00
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This tutorial heavily builds on the Connecting Galaxy to a compute cluster and it’s expected you have completed this tutorial first.
Published: 2021-01-17T11:37:17+00:00
Data Libraries
Published: 2021-01-14T08:41:22+00:00
Data libraries are a great way to provide structured repositories of data to
Published: 2021-01-14T08:41:22+00:00
In this tutorial you will learn how to configure Galaxy to run jobs using Apptainer containers provided by the BioContainers community.
Published: 2021-01-08T14:43:22+00:00
Overview
Published: 2020-06-17T17:37:46+00:00
History
Published: 2020-03-02T18:20:57+00:00
What are heterogenous compute resources?
Published: 2020-02-28T19:24:42+00:00
Galaxy Interactive Tools (GxITs) are a method to run containerized tools that are interactive in nature. Interactive Tools typically run a persistent service accessed on a specific port, until terminated by the user. One common example of such a tool is Jupyter Notebook. Galaxy Interactive Tools are submitted through Galaxy’s job management system and thus are scheduled the same as any other Galaxy tool - on a Slurm cluster, for instance. Galaxy Interactive Tools were introduced in Galaxy Release 19.09.
Published: 2020-02-27T15:21:14+00:00
Galaxy is widely used for teaching. In order to facilitate instructors, the Galaxy Project has developed Training Infrastructure as a Service (TIaaS).
Published: 2020-02-12T14:46:40+00:00
Install PostgreSQL & Galaxy extensions
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Overview
Published: 2019-08-06T13:56:16+00:00
Galaxy Helm Chart
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Managing Galaxy on Kubernetes
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Manage Jobs
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Database Queries
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Built in Data
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All these Clouds
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Part of the Job
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The reports application gives some pre-configured analytics screens. These are very easy to setup and can help with debugging issues in Galaxy.
Published: 2019-01-31T15:17:51+00:00
Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana
Published: 2019-01-31T15:17:51+00:00
Monitoring is an incredibly important part of server monitoring and maintenance. Being able to observe trends and identify hot spots by collecting metrics gives you a significant ability to respond to any issues that arise in production. Monitoring is quite easy to get started with, it can be as simple as writing a quick shell script in order to start collecting metrics.
Published: 2019-01-31T15:17:51+00:00
Server Maintenance
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Overview
Published: 2019-01-29T19:10:52+00:00
This tutorial assumes you have some familiarity with Ansible and are comfortable with writing and running playbooks. If not, please consider following our Ansible Tutorial first.
Published: 2019-01-28T10:40:06+00:00
We will just briefly cover the features available in gxadmin, there are lots of queries that may or may not be useful for your Galaxy instance and you will have to read the documentation before using them.
Published: 2019-01-28T04:20:16+00:00
Object Store Plugins
Published: 2019-01-28T04:12:36+00:00
You may find that your Galaxy files directory has run out of space, but you don’t want to move all of the files from one filesystem to another. One solution to this problem is to use Galaxy’s hierarchical object store to add an additional file space for Galaxy.
Published: 2019-01-28T04:12:36+00:00
In system administration…
Published: 2019-01-28T04:08:04+00:00
Overview
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Production server
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What is uWSGI?
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Auth Mechanisms supported
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class: special
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Galactic Database
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Pulsar is the Galaxy Project’s remote job running system. It was written by John Chilton (@jmchilton) of the Galaxy Project. It is a python server application that can accept jobs from a Galaxy server, submit them to a local resource and then send the results back to the originating Galaxy server.
Published: 2019-01-28T04:02:36+00:00
Galaxy tools
Published: 2019-01-27T22:09:32+00:00
This tutorial will introduce you to one of Galaxy’s associated projects - Ephemeris. Ephemeris is a small Python library and set of scripts for managing the bootstrapping of Galaxy plugins - tools, index data, and workflows. It aims to help automate, and limit the quantity of manual actions admins have to do in order to maintain a Galaxy instance.
Published: 2019-01-27T22:09:32+00:00
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Why Terraform
Published: 2018-10-27T07:51:23+00:00
Overview
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Configuration Management
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Overview
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Galaxy Job Configuration
Published: 2018-01-07T13:46:01+00:00
The tools that are added to Galaxy can have a wide variance in the compute resources that they require and work efficiently on.
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Users
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Setup
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Preparing Admin Training VMs
Published: 2016-09-29T17:43:47+00:00
For the hands-on examples you need access to a Galaxy server and access to its PostgreSQL database. You can set-up this yourself, or use the Galaxy Docker Image provided by Björn Grüning (https://github.com/bgruening/docker-galaxy-stable). During this tutorial, we will work with the Galaxy Docker Image.
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