Nextflow Tower is an open source monitoring and managing platform for Nextflow workflows. Learn more at tower.nf.

• Java 8
• Docker engine

make build

make run

See docker-compose.yml file for details.

Tower backend settings can be provided in either:

• application.yml in the backend class-path
• tower.yml in the launching directory

A minimal config requires the settings for the SMTP server, using the following variables:

• TOWER_SMTP_HOST: The SMTP server host name e.g. email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.
• TOWER_SMTP_PORT: The SMTP server port number e.g. 587.
• TOWER_SMTP_USER: The SMTP user name.
• TOWER_SMTP_PASSWORD: The SMTP user password.

Navigate to GUI in http://localhost:8000 and follow the instructions.

Define the following env variables:

• TOWER_SMTP_USER=<smtp user name>
• TOWER_SMTP_PASSWORD=<smpt password>

See tower-backend/src/main/resources/application.yml for further config details.

Launch the backend with the command:

./gradlew tower-backend:run --continuous

cd tower-web
npm install
npm run livedev

Tower is designed to be database agnostic and can use most popular SQL database servers, such as MySql, Postgres, Oracle and many other.

By default it uses H2, an embedded database meant to be used for evaluation purpose only.

• TOWER_APP_NAME: Application name.
• TOWER_SERVER_URL: Server URL e.g. https://tower.nf.
• TOWER_CONTACT_EMAIL: Sysadmin email contact e.g. [email protected].
• TOWER_DB_CREATE: DB creation policy e.g. none.
• TOWER_DB_URL: Database JDBC connection URL e.g. jdbc:mysql://localhost:3307/tower.
• TOWER_DB_DRIVER: Database JDBC driver class name e.g. com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver.
• TOWER_DB_DIALECT: Database SQL Hibernate dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL55Dialect.
• TOWER_DB_USER: Database user name.
• TOWER_DB_PASSWORD: Database user password.
• TOWER_SMTP_HOST: SMTP server host name.
• TOWER_SMTP_PORT: SMTP server port e.g. 587.
• TOWER_SMTP_AUTH: SMTP server authentication eg true
• TOWER_SMTP_USER: SMTP server user name.
• TOWER_SMTP_PASSWORD: SMTP server user password.

• For common problems, doubts and feedback please use the Gitter community channel or the GitHub issues page.
• This source code is distributed as it is for community adoption.
• Distribution packages, deployment scripts, maintenance updates, migration scripts and custom integrations are available to customers of Seqera Labs.

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