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Topic Materials

Material	Contributions v2 help	Pre-requisites help	Follow up trainings	Data on Zenodo
Ansible	✅			❌
Galaxy Installation with Ansible	✅	✅		✅
Galaxy from an administrator's point of view	❌			❌
Connecting Galaxy to a compute cluster	✅	✅	✅	✅
Mapping Jobs to Destinations using TPV	✅	✅		✅
Running Jobs on Remote Resources with Pulsar	✅	✅		✅
Use Apptainer containers for running Galaxy jobs	✅	✅		❌
Alternative Celery Deployment for Galaxy	✅	✅		❌
Configuring the Onedata connectors (remotes, Object Store, BYOS, BYOD)	✅	✅		✅
Data Libraries	❌	✅		✅
Distributed Object Storage	❌	✅		✅
Reference Data with CVMFS	❌	✅		❌
Reference Data with CVMFS without Ansible	❌			❌
Reference Data with Data Managers	✅	✅		❌
Setting up Celery Workers for Galaxy	✅	✅		❌
Automation with Jenkins	❌	✅		✅
Deploying a Beacon v1 in Galaxy	✅	✅		❌
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)	❌	✅		❌
Galaxy on the Cloud	✅			✅
Galaxy Installation on Kubernetes	❌		✅	✅
Managing Galaxy on Kubernetes	❌	✅		✅
Galaxy usage on SURF Research Cloud	✅	✅	✅	❌
Pulsar usage on SURF Research Cloud	✅	✅	✅	❌
Deploying Tailscale/Headscale for private mesh networking	✅	✅		❌
Deploying Wireguard for private mesh networking	✅	✅		❌
Deploying a compute cluster in OpenStack via Terraform	❌			❌
Customizing the look of Galaxy	✅	✅		✅
Customizing the look of Galaxy (Manual)	✅	✅		✅
Galaxy Administrator Time Burden and Technology Usage	✅			✅
Galaxy Troubleshooting	❌			✅
Gearing towards production	✅			✅
Server Maintenance: Cleanup, Backup, and Restoration	✅	✅		✅
Upgrading Galaxy	❌	✅		❌
User, Role, Group, Quota, and Authentication managment	✅			❌
Galaxy Monitoring	❌			✅
Galaxy Monitoring with Reports	✅	✅		❌
Galaxy Monitoring with Telegraf and Grafana	❌	✅		✅
Galaxy Monitoring with gxadmin	❌			❌
Monitoring Galaxy and Pulsar with Sentry	✅	✅		❌
Advanced customisation of a Galaxy instance	❌			✅
Controlling Galaxy with systemd or Supervisor	❌			✅
uWSGI	❌			✅
Adding file-sources to Galaxy	❌			✅
Create a subdomain for your community on UseGalaxy.eu	✅			✅
Docker and Galaxy	❌			❌
Empathy	❌			✅
Galactic Database	❌			✅
Galaxy Database schema	✅			❌
Server: Other	❌			❌

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Learning Pathways using materials from this Topic

Admin Training Course

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.

Galaxy administrators 5-day course admin

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Tool development for a nice & shiny subdomain

Discover Galaxy’s communities and learn how to create your subdomain and enrich it by writing, testing and submiting your tools on Galaxy. This learning pathway will guide you through all the steps required to build a tool for Galaxy with Planemo for batch tools and how write an interactive tool.

subdomain community tool development 3-day course dev

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TODO once this is merged: https://github.com/galaxyproject/training-material/pull/4963