Galaxy Admin Training will be offered November 24 through November 28 in CESNET offices, Brno, Czechia (map).

This workshop will cover basic and advanced topics you need to know to set up your own production, high-performance and multi-user Galaxy instance. Sessions will be intensive and hands-on, and taught by experienced instructors from the Galaxy Community. Participants will learn how to install, configure, customize, and extend their own Galaxy servers. Topics include tool configuration, authentication and user management, using heterogeneous storage and compute services, and many other topics that will enable you to get your own Galaxy server up and running, performing well, and used by your community.

Schedule 🆕

A tentative schedule for Galaxy Admin training 2025 is now available here. Get a sneak peek at the topics that will be covered during this intensive training program. The exact schedule is still TBD.

Prerequisites

Please review the prerequisites carefully before registering. If you arrive without meeting the prerequisites then the workshop will be a frustrating experience.

Comfortable with the Unix/Linux command line

Most of the workshop will happen at the Linux command line. If you aren’t comfortable with this before you arrive, then you will be lost the entire time. How comfortable do you need to be? Here’s a sampling of commands and concepts that you should be comfortable with:

cd, mkdir, rmdir, ls, cp, mv, rm, ln, cat, tail, head, less, man
chmod, chown, tar, gzip, grep
~, .., ./, /tmp, |

Note: This is not an exhaustive list (or even a proper subset) of the commands that will be used in the workshop. They are included here to give you an idea of the depth of knowledge that is required.

We have a few tutorials that can help you get refreshed if you need:

• CLI Basics
• CLI Advanced

Competent in a Unix/Linux text editor

Linux has several text editors available in it. You'll need to be comfortable in at least one of them before the workshop starts. We recommend that you use Nano, if you don't know another text editor. It's simple and easy to use.. If you know another editor like Emacs or VIM you are of course welcome to use those as well.

Some experience with Linux Package Management

You don’t need to be an expert at Linux package management, but you do need to have some experience at installing and upgrading packages on a Linux system.

We’ll be using Ubuntu based images during the workshop, which means we’ll be using apt to do package management. Get to know it.

Prerequisites include all of the Introduction Session prerequisites, plus familiarity with the topics presented in that session.

Laptop Requirements

All participants should bring a wifi-enabled laptop with

• (Optional but useful) Software to access the command line of a Linux server.

  • If you are running Linux or Mac OS, then you already have this.
  • If you are running Windows than you’ll need to get putty or something similar installed before the workshop.
• A recent version of either the Chrome or Firefox web browser installed.

Instructors

We currently have these confirmed (and highly experienced!) instructors:

• Marius van den Beek - Galaxy Project, Penn State University, Europe
• Mira Kuntz - Uni-Freiburg, Germany
• Bjoern Gruening - Uni-Freiburg, Germany
• Paul De Geest - VIB, Belgium
• Martin Demko - CESNET / CEITEC, Brno, Czechia
• Martin Cech - CESNET / ELIXIR CZ, Brno, Czechia

Costs

Our plan is to run this as a low-cost event. There is no registration fee but also very little in terms of catering. We plan to provide coffee and basic snacks to get through the days however meals will be covered by participants themselves.

Registration

Please register using this registration form.

We only have limited space so please register as soon as possible.

Please feel free to contact us at galaxy@cesnet.cz or join the admin chat if you have any question and check this site for any updates.

Logistics

Venue

The Admin training will be held in CESNET offices, Brno, Czechia (map). The venue is in the city centre of Brno, which is an amazing city to visit, see https://www.gotobrno.cz/.

Accomodation

There are many affordable hotels around and also plenty of opportunity for private accomodation. There is no organised effort or group reservation. If you are unsure where to book some tips for generic hotels nearby are: Continental, Avanti, and Cosmopolitan.

Getting To Brno

• By train - Plenty of trains arriving in Brno from all of Europe. The venue is 10 mins tram ride from the main train station.
• By plane - Generally fly to Prague or Vienna and take a train or bus to Brno. There is a couple of flights landing in Brno directly but they are rare.
• By car - Plenty of highways, drive safely.

Getting Around

There is serious amount of public transportation available that will get you anywhere. Use Google Maps or https://mapy.com/en to find connections and use your card, phone, watch and any other contactless payment device to easily pay for it when entering the vehicle (details at https://www.pipniajed.cz/en.html).