Dear Galaxy Dev Team-
I'm looking to automate the complete setup/build of a customized galaxy cluster from the command line. I'm looking for help/suggestions on several steps (labeled MANUAL) where it currently requires manual ui-input
1) [Automated] Have a script that uses cloudman + ec2-api-tools to create new galaxy cluster on Amazon from scratch.
2) [MANUAL] open browser to the new instance, enter volume size and start a new cluster. (Looking to be invoke this via command-line)
3) [MANUAL] Create standard users via the galaxy ui. (looking to be able to create a few standard users via command-line, not UI)
4) [MANUAL] Update galaxy to galaxy-dev tip using the galaxy-ui. (Can I just run hg pull/update? There doesn't seem to be the mercurial metadata in the galaxy-central directory.)
5) [Automated] Pull custom code from personal bitbucket, apply changes, create missing directories, install tools, etc. Copy over various configs (toos_conf.xml , universe_wsgi,etc)
6) [MANUAL] Import each workflow using the galaxy UI. (Have several workflows, and currently have to manually import them via the UI. I'm looking to make some type of command-line/api call that can pass the workflow to galaxy)
I could go into the code and figure out how to call these functions or possibly just insert rows into the database. However, I'm looking to approach this using more official/supported API's.
Would be happy to try to contribute/document this process once I have it working if others are interested.
Thanks in advance, Dave