Hello Steve,

Galaxy project's efforts in automating tool installations are mostly represented by the following Ansible playbook (https://github.com/afgane/galaxy-tools-playbook) and a role (https://github.com/galaxyproject/ansible-galaxy-tools).

We plan on improving that tracked at: https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/1115

The install_tool_shed_repositories.py script should install the latest revision when no revision is specified (and owner and repo name is present). This feature was added on May 14, 2014 (https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/commit/2d5c37a73f90931e03291d5c4ad6057a0e41a712).

Please let us know how it works for you.

Thank you for using Galaxy.

Martin Cech

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:02 PM <Steve.Mcmahon@csiro.au> wrote:

Hi,

We are using Puppet to manage the configuration for VMs for our development and production Galaxy instances. We would like to be able to specify tool shed tools and their revisions and have Puppet ensure that they are installed. Our Puppet code makes use of the “install_tool_shed_repositories.py” script and a script based on that which checks to see whether a particular tool and revision is installed.

We are finding that if we don’t specify the latest revision of a tool that the “install_tool_shed_repositories.py” script fails. Is this what others experience?

I know other sites are doing configuration management with Ansible. What approach are these sites taking for ensuring tools are installed or are these sites doing the tool installations outside of configuration management?

Regards.

Steve McMahon
Solution Architect and Senior System Administrator | Scientific Computing
Information Management and Technology
CSIRO

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