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Galaxy Installation with Ansible

Abstract

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.

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

  • How does the Galaxy Ansible module work internally?
  • How can I install a Galaxy server with Ansible

Learning Objectives

  • Have an understanding of how Galaxy's Ansible roles are structured and interact with one another
  • Be able to use an Ansible playbook to install different flavors of Galaxy for different purposes

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: Galaxy Server administration, ansible, deploying, git-gat

Target audience: Galaxy Administrators

Resource type: e-learning

Version: 102

Status: Active

Prerequisites:

  • A VM with at least 2 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM, preferably running Ubuntu 20.04 - 22.04.
  • Ansible

Learning objectives:

  • Have an understanding of how Galaxy's Ansible roles are structured and interact with one another
  • Be able to use an Ansible playbook to install different flavors of Galaxy for different purposes

Date modified: 2025-04-08

Date published: 2019-01-28

Authors: Helena Rasche, Nate Coraor, Simon Gladman

Contributors: Anthony Bretaudeau, Armin Dadras, Björn Grüning, Bérénice Batut, Dave B., Edwin den Haas, Gianmauro Cuccuru, Gildas Le Corguillé, Helena Rasche, John Chilton, Kweyakie Afi Blebo, Lucille Delisle, Marius van den Beek, Martin Čech, Mira Kuntz, Mélanie Petera, Nate Coraor, Nicola Soranzo, Peter van Heusden, Saskia Hiltemann, Simon Gladman, Tomas Klingström, Tunc Kayikcioglu, Vlad Visan

Scientific topics: Database management, Informatics, Data management


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