In this News and Views episode, Phil Ewels talks to Evan Floden and Harshil Patel from Seqera about automation of pipeline testing, Nextflow Tower CLI and automation. We wrap up with a sneak-preview of some future road map items coming soon to Nextflow Tower.

Tower CLI & automation

We covered the following topics in this episode:

• History of automation in nf-core
  • GitHub Action to launch pipelines on Tower: https://github.com/seqeralabs/action-tower-launch
• Infrastructure as code: Nextflow Tower
  • Code for automation of the Tower “showcase” environment: https://github.com/seqeralabs/showcase
• Python library for Tower infrastructure automation
  • https://github.com/seqeralabs/tw-pywrap
• Seqera road map items:
  • Pipeline detail view and run linking
  • Data Explorer - browse cloud buckets with Nextflow Tower
  • Evolution of Datasets

Upcoming events

• Nextflow Summit 2023 in Barcelona (October 16-20) and in Boston (November 28-30).
  • Registration open now: https://summit.nextflow.io/
• Two community training events are open for registration:
  • Foundational training - September 6-8, 2023
  • Advanced training - September 27-28, 2023