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Deployment options

Seqera Platform is available in two deployment options: Seqera Cloud, hosted by Seqera, and Seqera Enterprise, installed in your organization's own infrastructure. You can access either deployment through the web-based user interface (UI), the API, the CLI, or directly in Nextflow.

Platform options​

Seqera Cloud​

Seqera Cloud is the hosted deployment, recommended for users who are new to Platform and for individuals and organizations that want to set up quickly. The free tier includes up to five concurrent runs per user. Seqera Cloud Pro offers unlimited runs and dedicated support. Contact us for a demo to discuss your requirements.

Seqera Enterprise​

Seqera Enterprise runs in your organization's own cloud or on-premises infrastructure. It includes:

  • Monitoring, logging, and observability
  • Pipeline execution Launchpad
  • Cloud resource provisioning
  • Pipeline actions and event-based execution
  • LDAP and OpenID authentication
  • Enterprise role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Full-featured API
  • Dedicated support for Nextflow and Seqera Platform

To install Platform in your organization's infrastructure, contact us for a demo.

Access Platform​

Access your Seqera instance through the UI, the API, the CLI, or in Nextflow directly with the -with-tower run option.

Web-based UI​

  1. Create an account and sign in to Seqera Cloud at cloud.seqera.io.

    note

    Login sessions remain active while the browser window is open and active. After you close the browser window, Platform signs you out within 6 hours by default.

  2. Create and configure a new compute environment.

  3. Start launching pipelines.

Seqera API​

The Seqera API provides programmatic access to Platform. Use the API to automate operations such as launching pipelines, creating compute environments, and managing workspaces, or to integrate Platform with your existing infrastructure and tooling. Authenticate API requests with a Platform access token.

See API for the full endpoint reference and usage details.

Seqera CLI​

The Seqera CLI (tw) brings Platform concepts such as pipelines and compute environments to the terminal. Launch pipelines, manage cloud resources, and administer your analyses from the command line, or define Platform resources declaratively to version and manage them as code.

See CLI for installation instructions and the command reference.

Nextflow -with-tower​

If you run Nextflow directly in an existing environment, add the -with-tower option to your run command to use Platform capabilities:

  1. Create an account and sign in to Seqera at cloud.seqera.io.

  2. In your personal workspace, go to the user menu and select Settings > Your tokens.

  3. Select Add token.

  4. Enter a unique name for your token, then select Add.

  5. Copy and store your token securely.

    caution

    Platform displays the access token only once. Save the token value before you close the Personal Access Token window.

  6. Open a terminal window and create environment variables to store the Seqera access token and Nextflow version. Replace <ACCESS_TOKEN> with your new token:

    export TOWER_ACCESS_TOKEN=<ACCESS_TOKEN>
    export NXF_VER=23.10.1
    note

    Bearer token support requires Nextflow version 20.10.0 or later. Set the version with the NXF_VER environment variable.

  7. To submit a pipeline to a workspace using Nextflow, add the workspace ID to your environment:

    export TOWER_WORKSPACE_ID=000000000000000

    To find your workspace ID, select your organization in Seqera and select the Workspaces tab.

  8. Run your Nextflow pipeline with the -with-tower option:

    nextflow run main.nf -with-tower

    Replace main.nf with the filename of your Nextflow script.

You can now monitor your runs in the Seqera UI. To configure and run Nextflow pipelines in cloud environments, see compute environments.

tip

For additional run configuration options using Nextflow configuration files, see the Nextflow documentation.

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