Configuration options

This page lists all of the available settings in the Nextflow configuration.

Unscoped options

cleanup

If true, on a successful completion of a run all files in work directory are automatically deleted.

Warning

The use of the cleanup option will prevent the use of the resume feature on subsequent executions of that pipeline run. Also, be aware that deleting all scratch files can take a lot of time, especially when using a shared file system or remote cloud storage.

dumpHashes

If true, dump task hash keys in the log file, for debugging purposes. Equivalent to the -dump-hashes option of the run command.

outputDir

New in version 24.10.0.

Defines the pipeline output directory. Equivalent to the -output-dir option of the run command.

resume

If true, enable the use of previously cached task executions. Equivalent to the -resume option of the run command.

workDir

Defines the pipeline work directory. Equivalent to the -work-dir option of the run command.

apptainer

The apptainer scope controls how Apptainer containers are executed by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

apptainer.autoMounts

When true Nextflow automatically mounts host paths in the executed container. It requires the user bind control feature to be enabled in your Apptainer installation (default: true).

apptainer.cacheDir

The directory where remote Apptainer images are stored. When using a computing cluster it must be a shared folder accessible to all compute nodes.

apptainer.enabled

Enable Apptainer execution (default: false).

apptainer.engineOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any option supported by the Apptainer engine i.e. apptainer [OPTIONS].

apptainer.envWhitelist

Comma separated list of environment variable names to be included in the container environment.

apptainer.libraryDir

Directory where remote Apptainer images are retrieved. When using a computing cluster it must be a shared folder accessible to all compute nodes.

apptainer.noHttps

Pull the Apptainer image with http protocol (default: false).

apptainer.ociAutoPull

New in version 23.12.0-edge.

When enabled, OCI (and Docker) container images are pulled and converted to the SIF format by the Apptainer run command, instead of Nextflow (default: false).

Note

Leave ociAutoPull disabled if you are willing to build a Singularity/Apptainer native image with Wave (see the Build Singularity native images section).

apptainer.pullTimeout

The amount of time the Apptainer pull can last, exceeding which the process is terminated (default: 20 min).

apptainer.registry

The registry from where Docker images are pulled. It should be only used to specify a private registry server. It should NOT include the protocol prefix i.e. http://.

apptainer.runOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any extra command line options supported by apptainer exec.

Read the Apptainer page to learn more about how to use Apptainer containers with Nextflow.

aws

The aws scope controls the interactions with AWS, including AWS Batch and S3. For example:

aws {
    accessKey = '<YOUR S3 ACCESS KEY>'
    secretKey = '<YOUR S3 SECRET KEY>'
    region = 'us-east-1'

    client {
        maxConnections = 20
        connectionTimeout = 10000
        uploadStorageClass = 'INTELLIGENT_TIERING'
        storageEncryption = 'AES256'
    }
    batch {
        cliPath = '/home/ec2-user/miniconda/bin/aws'
        maxTransferAttempts = 3
        delayBetweenAttempts = '5 sec'
    }
}

Tip

This scope can also be used to configure access to S3-compatible storage outside of AWS, such as Ceph and MinIO.

Read the Amazon Web Services and Amazon S3 pages for more information.

The following settings are available:

aws.accessKey

AWS account access key

aws.profile

New in version 22.12.0-edge.

AWS profile from ~/.aws/credentials

aws.region

AWS region (e.g. us-east-1)

aws.secretKey

AWS account secret key

aws.batch.cliPath

The path where the AWS command line tool is installed in the host AMI.

aws.batch.delayBetweenAttempts

Delay between download attempts from S3 (default: 10 sec).

aws.batch.executionRole

New in version 23.12.0-edge.

The AWS Batch Execution Role ARN that needs to be used to execute the Batch Job. This is mandatory when using AWS Fargate platform type. See AWS documentation for more details.

aws.batch.jobRole

The AWS Batch Job Role ARN that needs to be used to execute the Batch Job.

aws.batch.logsGroup

New in version 22.09.0-edge.

The name of the logs group used by Batch Jobs (default: /aws/batch/job).

aws.batch.maxParallelTransfers

Max parallel upload/download transfer operations per job (default: 4).

aws.batch.maxSpotAttempts

New in version 22.04.0.

Changed in version 24.08.0-edge: The default value was changed from 5 to 0.

Max number of execution attempts of a job interrupted by a EC2 spot reclaim event (default: 0)

aws.batch.maxTransferAttempts

Max number of downloads attempts from S3 (default: 1).

aws.batch.platformType

New in version 23.12.0-edge.

Allow specifying the compute platform type used by AWS Batch, that can be either ec2 or fargate. See AWS documentation to learn more about AWS Fargate platform type for AWS Batch.

aws.batch.retryMode

The retry mode configuration setting, to accommodate rate-limiting on AWS services (default: standard, other options: legacy, adaptive); this handling is delegated to AWS. To have Nextflow handle retries instead, use built-in.

aws.batch.schedulingPriority

New in version 23.01.0-edge.

The scheduling priority for all tasks when using fair-share scheduling for AWS Batch (default: 0)

aws.batch.shareIdentifier

New in version 22.09.0-edge.

The share identifier for all tasks when using fair-share scheduling for AWS Batch

aws.batch.volumes

One or more container mounts. Mounts can be specified as simple e.g. /some/path or canonical format e.g. /host/path:/mount/path[:ro|rw]. Multiple mounts can be specified separating them with a comma or using a list object.

aws.client.anonymous

Allow the access of public S3 buckets without the need to provide AWS credentials. Any service that does not accept unsigned requests will return a service access error.

aws.client.s3Acl

Allow the setting of predefined bucket permissions, also known as canned ACL. Permitted values are Private, PublicRead, PublicReadWrite, AuthenticatedRead, LogDeliveryWrite, BucketOwnerRead, BucketOwnerFullControl, and AwsExecRead. See Amazon docs for details.

aws.client.connectionTimeout

The amount of time to wait (in milliseconds) when initially establishing a connection before timing out.

aws.client.endpoint

The AWS S3 API entry point e.g. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com. Note: the endpoint must include the protocol prefix e.g. https://.

aws.client.glacierAutoRetrieval

Deprecated since version 24.02.0-edge: Glacier auto-retrieval is no longer supported. Instead, consider using the AWS CLI to restore any Glacier objects before or at the beginning of your pipeline (i.e. in a Nextflow process).

Enable auto retrieval of S3 objects with a Glacier storage class (default: false).

aws.client.glacierExpirationDays

Deprecated since version 24.02.0-edge.

The time, in days, between when an object is restored to the bucket and when it expires (default: 7).

aws.client.glacierRetrievalTier

Deprecated since version 24.02.0-edge.

The retrieval tier to use when restoring objects from Glacier, one of [Expedited, Standard, Bulk].

aws.client.maxConnections

The maximum number of allowed open HTTP connections.

aws.client.maxErrorRetry

The maximum number of retry attempts for failed retryable requests.

aws.client.protocol

The protocol (i.e. HTTP or HTTPS) to use when connecting to AWS.

aws.client.proxyHost

The proxy host to connect through.

aws.client.proxyPort

The port on the proxy host to connect through.

aws.client.proxyUsername

The user name to use when connecting through a proxy.

aws.client.proxyPassword

The password to use when connecting through a proxy.

aws.client.requesterPays

New in version 24.05.0-edge.

Enable the requester pays feature for S3 buckets.

aws.client.s3PathStyleAccess

Enable the use of path-based access model that is used to specify the address of an object in S3-compatible storage systems.

aws.client.signerOverride

The name of the signature algorithm to use for signing requests made by the client.

aws.client.socketSendBufferSizeHint

The Size hint (in bytes) for the low level TCP send buffer.

aws.client.socketRecvBufferSizeHint

The Size hint (in bytes) for the low level TCP receive buffer.

aws.client.socketTimeout

The amount of time to wait (in milliseconds) for data to be transferred over an established, open connection before the connection is timed out.

aws.client.storageEncryption

The S3 server side encryption to be used when saving objects on S3, either AES256 or aws:kms values are allowed.

aws.client.storageKmsKeyId

New in version 22.05.0-edge.

The AWS KMS key Id to be used to encrypt files stored in the target S3 bucket.

aws.client.userAgent

The HTTP user agent header passed with all HTTP requests.

aws.client.uploadChunkSize

The size of a single part in a multipart upload (default: 100 MB).

aws.client.uploadMaxAttempts

The maximum number of upload attempts after which a multipart upload returns an error (default: 5).

aws.client.uploadMaxThreads

The maximum number of threads used for multipart upload.

aws.client.uploadRetrySleep

The time to wait after a failed upload attempt to retry the part upload (default: 500ms).

aws.client.uploadStorageClass

The S3 storage class applied to stored objects, one of [STANDARD, STANDARD_IA, ONEZONE_IA, INTELLIGENT_TIERING] (default: STANDARD).

azure

The azure scope allows you to configure the interactions with Azure, including Azure Batch and Azure Blob Storage.

Read the Azure page for more information.

The following settings are available:

azure.activeDirectory.servicePrincipalId

The service principal client ID

azure.activeDirectory.servicePrincipalSecret

The service principal client secret

azure.activeDirectory.tenantId

The Azure tenant ID

azure.batch.accountName

The batch service account name.

azure.batch.accountKey

The batch service account key.

azure.batch.allowPoolCreation

Enable the automatic creation of batch pools specified in the Nextflow configuration file (default: false).

azure.batch.autoPoolMode

Enable the automatic creation of batch pools depending on the pipeline resources demand (default: true).

azure.batch.copyToolInstallMode

Specify where the azcopy tool used by Nextflow. When node is specified it’s copied once during the pool creation. When task is provider, it’s installed for each task execution. Finally when off is specified, the azcopy tool is not installed (default: node).

azure.batch.deleteJobsOnCompletion

Delete all jobs when the workflow completes (default: false).

Changed in version 23.08.0-edge: Default value was changed from true to false.

azure.batch.deletePoolsOnCompletion

Delete all compute node pools when the workflow completes (default: false).

azure.batch.deleteTasksOnCompletion

New in version 23.08.0-edge.

Delete each task when it completes (default: true).

Although this setting is enabled by default, failed tasks will not be deleted unless it is explicitly enabled. This way, the default behavior is that successful tasks are deleted while failed tasks are preserved for debugging purposes.

azure.batch.endpoint

The batch service endpoint e.g. https://nfbatch1.westeurope.batch.azure.com.

azure.batch.location

The name of the batch service region, e.g. westeurope or eastus2. This is not needed when the endpoint is specified.

azure.batch.terminateJobsOnCompletion

New in version 23.05.0-edge.

When the workflow completes, set all jobs to terminate on task completion. (default: true).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.autoScale

Enable autoscaling feature for the pool identified with <name>.

azure.batch.pools.<name>.fileShareRootPath

If mounting File Shares, this is the internal root mounting point. Must be /mnt/resource/batch/tasks/fsmounts for CentOS nodes or /mnt/batch/tasks/fsmounts for Ubuntu nodes (default is for CentOS).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.lowPriority

Enable the use of low-priority VMs (default: false).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.maxVmCount

Specify the max of virtual machine when using auto scale option.

azure.batch.pools.<name>.mountOptions

Specify the mount options for mounting the file shares (default: -o vers=3.0,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,sec=ntlmssp).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.offer

Specify the offer type of the virtual machine type used by the pool identified with <name> (default: centos-container).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.privileged

Enable the task to run with elevated access. Ignored if runAs is set (default: false).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.publisher

Specify the publisher of virtual machine type used by the pool identified with <name> (default: microsoft-azure-batch).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.runAs

Specify the username under which the task is run. The user must already exist on each node of the pool.

azure.batch.pools.<name>.scaleFormula

Specify the scale formula for the pool identified with <name>. See Azure Batch scaling documentation for details.

azure.batch.pools.<name>.scaleInterval

Specify the interval at which to automatically adjust the Pool size according to the autoscale formula. The minimum and maximum value are 5 minutes and 168 hours respectively (default: 10 mins).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.schedulePolicy

Specify the scheduling policy for the pool identified with <name>. It can be either spread or pack (default: spread).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.sku

Specify the ID of the Compute Node agent SKU which the pool identified with <name> supports (default: batch.node.centos 8).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.startTask.script

New in version 24.03.0-edge.

Specify the startTask that is executed as the node joins the Azure Batch node pool.

azure.batch.pools.<name>.startTask.privileged

New in version 24.03.0-edge.

Enable the startTask to run with elevated access (default: false).

azure.batch.pools.<name>.virtualNetwork

New in version 23.03.0-edge.

Specify the subnet ID of a virtual network in which to create the pool.

azure.batch.pools.<name>.vmCount

Specify the number of virtual machines provisioned by the pool identified with <name>.

azure.batch.pools.<name>.vmType

Specify the virtual machine type used by the pool identified with <name>.

azure.managedIdentity.clientId

Specify the client ID for an Azure managed identity. See Managed identities for more details.

azure.managedIdentity.system

When true, use the system-assigned managed identity to authenticate Azure resources. See Managed identities for more details.

azure.managedIdentity.tenantId

The Azure tenant ID

azure.registry.server

Specify the container registry from which to pull the Docker images (default: docker.io).

azure.registry.userName

Specify the username to connect to a private container registry.

azure.registry.password

Specify the password to connect to a private container registry.

azure.retryPolicy.delay

Delay when retrying failed API requests (default: 500ms).

azure.retryPolicy.jitter

Jitter value when retrying failed API requests (default: 0.25).

azure.retryPolicy.maxAttempts

Max attempts when retrying failed API requests (default: 10).

azure.retryPolicy.maxDelay

Max delay when retrying failed API requests (default: 90s).

azure.storage.accountName

The blob storage account name

azure.storage.accountKey

The blob storage account key

azure.storage.sasToken

The blob storage shared access signature token. This can be provided as an alternative to the accountKey setting.

azure.storage.tokenDuration

The duration of the shared access signature token created by Nextflow when the sasToken option is not specified (default: 48h).

charliecloud

The charliecloud scope controls how Charliecloud containers are executed by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

charliecloud.enabled

Enable Charliecloud execution (default: false).

charliecloud.writeFake

Enable writeFake with charliecloud (default: true) This allows to run containers from storage in writeable mode, using overlayfs. writeFake requires unprivileged overlayfs (Linux kernel >= 5.11). For full support, tempfs with xattrs in the user namespace (Linux kernel >= 6.6) is required, see charliecloud documentation for details.

charliecloud.cacheDir

The directory where remote Charliecloud images are stored. When using a computing cluster it must be a shared folder accessible to all compute nodes.

charliecloud.envWhitelist

Comma separated list of environment variable names to be included in the container environment.

charliecloud.pullTimeout

The amount of time the Charliecloud pull can last, exceeding which the process is terminated (default: 20 min).

charliecloud.runOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any extra command line options supported by the ch-run command.

charliecloud.temp

Mounts a path of your choice as the /tmp directory in the container. Use the special value auto to create a temporary directory each time a container is created.

charliecloud.registry

The registry from where images are pulled. It should be only used to specify a private registry server. It should NOT include the protocol prefix i.e. http://.

Read the Charliecloud page to learn more about how to use Charliecloud containers with Nextflow.

conda

The conda scope controls the creation of Conda environments by the Conda package manager.

The following settings are available:

conda.enabled

Enables Conda execution (default: false).

conda.cacheDir

Defines the path where Conda environments are stored. Ensure the path is accessible from all compute nodes when using a shared file system.

conda.channels

Defines the Conda channels that can be used to resolve Conda packages. Channels can be defined as a list (e.g., ['bioconda','conda-forge']) or a comma separated list string (e.g., 'bioconda,conda-forge'). Channel priority decreases from left to right.

conda.createOptions

Defines extra command line options supported by the conda create command. See the Conda documentation for more information.

conda.createTimeout

Defines the amount of time the Conda environment creation can last. The creation process is terminated when the timeout is exceeded (default: 20 min).

conda.useMamba

Uses the mamba binary instead of conda to create the Conda environments. See the Mamba documentation for more information about Mamba.

conda.useMicromamba

New in version 22.05.0-edge.

Uses the micromamba binary instead of conda to create Conda environments. See the Micromamba documentation for more information about Micromamba.

See Conda environments for more information about using Conda environments with Nextflow.

dag

The dag scope controls the workflow diagram generated by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

dag.enabled

When true enables the generation of the DAG file (default: false).

dag.depth

New in version 23.10.0.

Only supported by the HTML and Mermaid renderers.

Controls the maximum depth at which to render sub-workflows (default: no limit).

dag.direction

New in version 23.10.0.

Only supported by the HTML and Mermaid renderers.

Controls the direction of the DAG, can be 'LR' (left-to-right) or 'TB' (top-to-bottom) (default: 'TB').

dag.file

Graph file name (default: dag-<timestamp>.html).

dag.overwrite

When true overwrites any existing DAG file with the same name (default: false).

dag.verbose

New in version 23.10.0.

Only supported by the HTML and Mermaid renderers.

When false, channel names are omitted, operators are collapsed, and empty workflow inputs are removed (default: false).

Read the Workflow diagram page to learn more about the workflow graph that can be generated by Nextflow.

docker

The docker scope controls how Docker containers are executed by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

docker.enabled

Enable Docker execution (default: false).

docker.engineOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any option supported by the Docker engine i.e. docker [OPTIONS].

docker.envWhitelist

Comma separated list of environment variable names to be included in the container environment.

docker.fixOwnership

Fix ownership of files created by the docker container.

docker.legacy

Use command line options removed since Docker 1.10.0 (default: false).

docker.mountFlags

Add the specified flags to the volume mounts e.g. mountFlags = 'ro,Z'.

docker.registry

The registry from where Docker images are pulled. It should be only used to specify a private registry server. It should NOT include the protocol prefix i.e. http://.

docker.remove

Clean-up the container after the execution (default: true). See the Docker documentation for details.

docker.runOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any extra command line options supported by the docker run command. See the Docker documentation for details.

docker.sudo

Executes Docker run command as sudo (default: false).

docker.temp

Mounts a path of your choice as the /tmp directory in the container. Use the special value auto to create a temporary directory each time a container is created.

docker.tty

Allocates a pseudo-tty (default: false).

Read the Docker page to learn more about how to use Docker containers with Nextflow.

env

The env scope allows the definition one or more variables that will be exported into the environment where workflow tasks are executed.

Simply prefix your variable names with the env scope or surround them by curly brackets, as shown below:

env.ALPHA = 'some value'
env.BETA = "$HOME/some/path"

env {
     DELTA = 'one more'
     GAMMA = "/my/path:$PATH"
}

Note

In the above example, variables like $HOME and $PATH are evaluated when the workflow is launched. If you want these variables to be evaluated during task execution, escape them with \$. This difference is important for variables like $PATH, which may be different in the workflow environment versus the task environment.

Warning

The env scope provides environment variables to tasks, not Nextflow itself. Nextflow environment variables such as NXF_VER should be set in the environment in which Nextflow is launched.

executor

The executor scope controls various executor behaviors.

The following settings are available:

executor.account

New in version 24.04.0.

Used only by the SLURM, LSF, PBS/Torque and PBS Pro executors.

Allows specifying the project or organization account that should be charged for running the pipeline jobs.

executor.cpus

The maximum number of CPUs made available by the underlying system. Used only by the local executor.

executor.dumpInterval

Determines how often to log the executor status (default: 5min).

executor.exitReadTimeout

Determines how long to wait before returning an error status when a process is terminated but the .exitcode file does not exist or is empty (default: 270 sec). Used only by grid executors.

executor.jobName

Determines the name of jobs submitted to the underlying cluster executor e.g. executor.jobName = { "$task.name - $task.hash" }. Make sure the resulting job name matches the validation constraints of the underlying batch scheduler.

This setting is supported by the following executors: Bridge, Condor, Flux, HyperQueue, Lsf, Moab, Nqsii, Oar, PBS, PBS Pro, SGE, SLURM and Google Batch.

executor.killBatchSize

Determines the number of jobs that can be killed in a single command execution (default: 100).

executor.memory

The maximum amount of memory made available by the underlying system. Used only by the local executor.

executor.name

The name of the executor to be used (default: local).

executor.perCpuMemAllocation

New in version 23.07.0-edge.

Used only by the SLURM executor.

When true, specifies memory allocations for SLURM jobs as --mem-per-cpu <task.memory / task.cpus> instead of --mem <task.memory>.

executor.perJobMemLimit

Specifies Platform LSF per-job memory limit mode. See LSF.

executor.perTaskReserve

Specifies Platform LSF per-task memory reserve mode. See LSF.

executor.pollInterval

Determines how often to check for process termination. Default varies for each executor (see below).

executor.queueGlobalStatus

New in version 23.01.0-edge.

Determines how job status is retrieved. When false only the queue associated with the job execution is queried. When true the job status is queried globally i.e. irrespective of the submission queue (default: false).

executor.queueSize

The number of tasks the executor will handle in a parallel manner. A queue size of zero corresponds to no limit. Default varies for each executor (see below).

executor.queueStatInterval

Determines how often to fetch the queue status from the scheduler (default: 1min). Used only by grid executors.

executor.retry.delay

New in version 22.03.0-edge.

Delay when retrying failed job submissions (default: 500ms). Used only by grid executors.

executor.retry.jitter

New in version 22.03.0-edge.

Jitter value when retrying failed job submissions (default: 0.25). Used only by grid executors.

executor.retry.maxAttempt

New in version 22.03.0-edge.

Max attempts when retrying failed job submissions (default: 3). Used only by grid executors.

executor.retry.maxDelay

New in version 22.03.0-edge.

Max delay when retrying failed job submissions (default: 30s). Used only by grid executors.

executor.retry.reason

New in version 22.03.0-edge.

Regex pattern that when verified cause a failed submit operation to be re-tried (default: Socket timed out). Used only by grid executors.

executor.submitRateLimit

Determines the max rate of job submission per time unit, for example '10sec' (10 jobs per second) or '50/2min' (50 jobs every 2 minutes) (default: unlimited).

Some executor settings have different default values depending on the executor.

Executor

queueSize

pollInterval

AWS Batch

1000

10s

Azure Batch

1000

10s

Google Batch

1000

10s

Grid Executors

100

5s

Kubernetes

100

5s

Local

N/A

100ms

The executor settings can be defined as shown below:

executor {
    name = 'sge'
    queueSize = 200
    pollInterval = '30 sec'
}

When using two (or more) different executors in your pipeline, you can specify their settings separately by prefixing the executor name with the symbol $ and using it as special scope identifier. For example:

executor {
  $sge {
      queueSize = 100
      pollInterval = '30sec'
  }

  $local {
      cpus = 8
      memory = '32 GB'
  }
}

The above configuration example can be rewritten using the dot notation as shown below:

executor.$sge.queueSize = 100
executor.$sge.pollInterval = '30sec'
executor.$local.cpus = 8
executor.$local.memory = '32 GB'

fusion

The fusion scope provides advanced configuration for the use of the Fusion file system.

The following settings are available:

fusion.enabled

Enable/disable the use of Fusion file system.

fusion.cacheSize

New in version 23.11.0-edge.

The maximum size of the local cache used by the Fusion client.

fusion.containerConfigUrl

The URL from where the container layer provisioning the Fusion client is downloaded. This option is useful to specify a development Fusion version for debugging purposes.

fusion.exportStorageCredentials

New in version 23.05.0-edge: This option was previously named fusion.exportAwsAccessKeys.

When true the access credentials required by the underlying object storage are exported to the task execution environment.

fusion.logLevel

The level of logging emitted by the Fusion client.

fusion.logOutput

Where the logging output is written.

fusion.privileged

New in version 23.10.0.

Enables the use of privileged containers when using Fusion (default: true).

The use of Fusion without privileged containers is currently only supported for Kubernetes, and it requires the k8s-fuse-plugin (or similar FUSE device plugin) to be installed in the cluster.

fusion.tags

The pattern that determines how tags are applied to files created via the Fusion client (default: [.command.*|.exitcode|.fusion.*](nextflow.io/metadata=true),[*](nextflow.io/temporary=true)).

To disable tags set it to false.

google

The google scope allows you to configure the interactions with Google Cloud, including Google Cloud Batch, Google Life Sciences, and Google Cloud Storage.

Read the Google Cloud page for more information.

Cloud Batch

The following settings are available for Google Cloud Batch:

google.enableRequesterPaysBuckets

When true uses the given Google Cloud project ID as the billing project for storage access. This is required when accessing data from requester pays enabled buckets. See Requester Pays on Google Cloud Storage documentation (default: false).

google.httpConnectTimeout

New in version 23.06.0-edge.

Defines the HTTP connection timeout for Cloud Storage API requests (default: '60s').

google.httpReadTimeout

New in version 23.06.0-edge.

Defines the HTTP read timeout for Cloud Storage API requests (default: '60s').

google.location

The Google Cloud location where jobs are executed (default: us-central1).

google.project

The Google Cloud project ID to use for pipeline execution

google.batch.allowedLocations

New in version 22.12.0-edge.

Define the set of allowed locations for VMs to be provisioned. See Google documentation for details (default: no restriction).

google.batch.autoRetryExitCodes

New in version 24.07.0-edge.

Defines the list of exit codes that will be automatically retried by Google Batch when google.batch.maxSpotAttempts is greater than 0 (default [50001]). Refer to the Google Batch documentation for the list of retryable exit codes.

google.batch.bootDiskImage

New in version 24.08.0-edge.

Set the image URI of the virtual machine boot disk, e.g batch-debian. See Google documentation for details (default: none).

google.batch.bootDiskSize

Set the size of the virtual machine boot disk, e.g 50.GB (default: none).

google.batch.cpuPlatform

Set the minimum CPU Platform, e.g. 'Intel Skylake'. See Specifying a minimum CPU Platform for VM instances (default: none).

google.batch.maxSpotAttempts

New in version 23.11.0-edge.

Changed in version 24.08.0-edge: The default value was changed from 5 to 0.

Max number of execution attempts of a job interrupted by a Compute Engine spot reclaim event (default: 0).

See also: google.batch.autoRetryExitCodes

google.batch.network

The URL of an existing network resource to which the VM will be attached.

You can specify the network as a full or partial URL. For example, the following are all valid URLs:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{project}/global/networks/{network}

  • projects/{project}/global/networks/{network}

  • global/networks/{network}

google.batch.serviceAccountEmail

Define the Google service account email to use for the pipeline execution. If not specified, the default Compute Engine service account for the project will be used.

Note that the google.batch.serviceAccountEmail service account will only be used for spawned jobs, not for the Nextflow process itself. See the Google Cloud documentation for more information on credentials.

google.batch.spot

When true enables the usage of spot virtual machines or false otherwise (default: false).

google.batch.subnetwork

The URL of an existing subnetwork resource in the network to which the VM will be attached.

You can specify the subnetwork as a full or partial URL. For example, the following are all valid URLs:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{project}/regions/{region}/subnetworks/{subnetwork}

  • projects/{project}/regions/{region}/subnetworks/{subnetwork}

  • regions/{region}/subnetworks/{subnetwork}

google.batch.usePrivateAddress

When true the VM will NOT be provided with a public IP address, and only contain an internal IP. If this option is enabled, the associated job can only load docker images from Google Container Registry, and the job executable cannot use external services other than Google APIs (default: false).

google.storage.maxAttempts

New in version 23.11.0-edge.

Max attempts when retrying failed API requests to Cloud Storage (default: 10).

google.storage.maxDelay

New in version 23.11.0-edge.

Max delay when retrying failed API requests to Cloud Storage (default: '90s').

google.storage.multiplier

New in version 23.11.0-edge.

Delay multiplier when retrying failed API requests to Cloud Storage (default: 2.0).

Cloud Life Sciences

The following settings are available for Cloud Life Sciences:

google.enableRequesterPaysBuckets

When true uses the given Google Cloud project ID as the billing project for storage access. This is required when accessing data from requester pays enabled buckets. See Requester Pays on Google Cloud Storage documentation (default: false).

google.httpConnectTimeout

New in version 23.06.0-edge.

Defines the HTTP connection timeout for Cloud Storage API requests (default: '60s').

google.httpReadTimeout

New in version 23.06.0-edge.

Defines the HTTP read timeout for Cloud Storage API requests (default: '60s').

google.location

The Google Cloud location where jobs are executed (default: us-central1).

google.project

The Google Cloud project ID to use for pipeline execution

google.region

The Google Cloud region where jobs are executed. Multiple regions can be provided as a comma-separated list. Cannot be used with the google.zone option. See the Google Cloud documentation for a list of available regions and zones.

google.zone

The Google Cloud zone where jobs are executed. Multiple zones can be provided as a comma-separated list. Cannot be used with the google.region option. See the Google Cloud documentation for a list of available regions and zones.

google.lifeSciences.bootDiskSize

Set the size of the virtual machine boot disk e.g 50.GB (default: none).

google.lifeSciences.copyImage

The container image run to copy input and output files. It must include the gsutil tool (default: google/cloud-sdk:alpine).

google.lifeSciences.cpuPlatform

Set the minimum CPU Platform e.g. 'Intel Skylake'. See Specifying a minimum CPU Platform for VM instances (default: none).

google.lifeSciences.debug

When true copies the /google debug directory in that task bucket directory (default: false).

google.lifeSciences.keepAliveOnFailure

New in version 21.06.0-edge.

When true and a task complete with an unexpected exit status the associated compute node is kept up for 1 hour. This options implies sshDaemon=true (default: false).

google.lifeSciences.network

New in version 21.03.0-edge.

Set network name to attach the VM’s network interface to. The value will be prefixed with global/networks/ unless it contains a /, in which case it is assumed to be a fully specified network resource URL. If unspecified, the global default network is used.

google.lifeSciences.preemptible

When true enables the usage of preemptible virtual machines or false otherwise (default: true).

google.lifeSciences.serviceAccountEmail

New in version 20.05.0-edge.

Define the Google service account email to use for the pipeline execution. If not specified, the default Compute Engine service account for the project will be used.

google.lifeSciences.subnetwork

New in version 21.03.0-edge.

Define the name of the subnetwork to attach the instance to must be specified here, when the specified network is configured for custom subnet creation. The value is prefixed with regions/subnetworks/ unless it contains a /, in which case it is assumed to be a fully specified subnetwork resource URL.

google.lifeSciences.sshDaemon

When true runs SSH daemon in the VM carrying out the job to which it’s possible to connect for debugging purposes (default: false).

google.lifeSciences.sshImage

The container image used to run the SSH daemon (default: gcr.io/cloud-genomics-pipelines/tools).

google.lifeSciences.usePrivateAddress

New in version 20.03.0-edge.

When true the VM will NOT be provided with a public IP address, and only contain an internal IP. If this option is enabled, the associated job can only load docker images from Google Container Registry, and the job executable cannot use external services other than Google APIs (default: false).

google.storage.delayBetweenAttempts

New in version 21.06.0-edge.

Delay between download attempts from Google Storage (default 10 sec).

google.storage.downloadMaxComponents

New in version 21.06.0-edge.

Defines the value for the option GSUtil:sliced_object_download_max_components used by gsutil for transfer input and output data (default: 8).

google.storage.maxParallelTransfers

New in version 21.06.0-edge.

Max parallel upload/download transfer operations per job (default: 4).

google.storage.maxTransferAttempts

New in version 21.06.0-edge.

Max number of downloads attempts from Google Storage (default: 1).

google.storage.parallelThreadCount

New in version 21.06.0-edge.

Defines the value for the option GSUtil:parallel_thread_count used by gsutil for transfer input and output data (default: 1).

k8s

The k8s scope controls the deployment and execution of workflow applications in a Kubernetes cluster.

The following settings are available:

k8s.autoMountHostPaths

Automatically mounts host paths into the task pods (default: false). Only intended for development purposes when using a single node.

k8s.computeResourceType

New in version 22.05.0-edge.

Define whether use Kubernetes Pod or Job resource type to carry out Nextflow tasks (default: Pod).

k8s.context

Defines the Kubernetes configuration context name to use.

k8s.cpuLimits

New in version 24.04.0.

When true, set both the pod CPUs request and limit to the value specified by the cpus directive, otherwise set only the request (default: false).

This setting is useful when a K8s cluster requires a CPU limit to be defined through a LimitRange.

k8s.debug.yaml

When true, saves the pod spec for each task to .command.yaml in the task directory (default: false).

k8s.fetchNodeName

New in version 22.05.0-edge.

If you trace the hostname, activate this option (default: false).

k8s.fuseDevicePlugin

New in version 24.01.0-edge.

The FUSE device plugin to be used when enabling Fusion in unprivileged mode (default: ['nextflow.io/fuse': 1]).

k8s.httpConnectTimeout

New in version 22.10.0.

Defines the Kubernetes client request HTTP connection timeout e.g. '60s'.

k8s.httpReadTimeout

New in version 22.10.0.

Defines the Kubernetes client request HTTP connection read timeout e.g. '60s'.

k8s.launchDir

Defines the path where the workflow is launched and the user data is stored. This must be a path in a shared K8s persistent volume (default: <volume-claim-mount-path>/<user-name>).

k8s.maxErrorRetry

New in version 22.09.6-edge.

Defines the Kubernetes API max request retries (default: 4).

k8s.namespace

Defines the Kubernetes namespace to use (default: default).

k8s.pod

Allows the definition of one or more pod configuration options such as environment variables, config maps, secrets, etc. It allows the same settings as the pod process directive.

When using the kuberun command, this setting also applies to the submitter pod.

k8s.projectDir

Defines the path where Nextflow projects are downloaded. This must be a path in a shared K8s persistent volume (default: <volume-claim-mount-path>/projects).

k8s.pullPolicy

Defines the strategy to be used to pull the container image e.g. pullPolicy: 'Always'.

k8s.runAsUser

Defines the user ID to be used to run the containers. Shortcut for the securityContext option.

k8s.securityContext

Defines the security context for all pods.

k8s.serviceAccount

Defines the Kubernetes service account name to use.

k8s.storageClaimName

The name of the persistent volume claim where store workflow result data.

k8s.storageMountPath

The path location used to mount the persistent volume claim (default: /workspace).

k8s.storageSubPath

The path in the persistent volume to be mounted (default: /).

k8s.workDir

Defines the path where the workflow temporary data is stored. This must be a path in a shared K8s persistent volume (default: <user-dir>/work).

See the Kubernetes page for more details.

mail

The mail scope controls the mail server used to send email notifications.

The following settings are available:

mail.debug

When true enables Java Mail logging for debugging purpose.

mail.from

Default email sender address.

mail.smtp.host

Host name of the mail server.

mail.smtp.port

Port number of the mail server.

mail.smtp.user

User name to connect to the mail server.

mail.smtp.password

User password to connect to the mail server.

mail.smtp.proxy.host

Host name of an HTTP web proxy server that will be used for connections to the mail server.

mail.smtp.proxy.port

Port number for the HTTP web proxy server.

mail.smtp.*

Any SMTP configuration property supported by the Java Mail API, which Nextflow uses to send emails. See the table of available properties here.

For example, the following snippet shows how to configure Nextflow to send emails through the AWS Simple Email Service:

mail {
    smtp.host = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
    smtp.port = 587
    smtp.user = '<Your AWS SES access key>'
    smtp.password = '<Your AWS SES secret key>'
    smtp.auth = true
    smtp.starttls.enable = true
    smtp.starttls.required = true
}

Note

Some versions of Java (e.g. Java 11 Corretto) do not default to TLS v1.2, and as a result may have issues with 3rd party integrations that enforce TLS v1.2 (e.g. Azure Active Directory OIDC). This problem can be addressed by setting the following config option:

mail {
    smtp.ssl.protocols = 'TLSv1.2'
}

manifest

The manifest scope allows you to define some meta-data information needed when publishing or running your pipeline.

The following settings are available:

manifest.author

Deprecated since version 24.09.0-edge: Use manifest.contributors instead.

Project author name (use a comma to separate multiple names).

manifest.contributors

New in version 24.09.0-edge.

List of project contributors. Should be a list of maps. The following fields are supported in the contributor map:

  • name: the contributor’s name

  • affiliation: the contributor’s affiliated organization

  • email: the contributor’s email address

  • github: the contributor’s GitHub URL

  • contribution: list of contribution types, each element can be one of 'author', 'maintainer', or 'contributor'

  • orcid: the contributor’s ORCID URL

manifest.defaultBranch

Git repository default branch (default: master).

manifest.description

Free text describing the workflow project.

manifest.docsUrl

Project documentation URL.

manifest.doi

Project related publication DOI identifier.

manifest.homePage

Project home page URL.

manifest.icon

Project related icon location (Relative path or URL).

manifest.license

Project license.

manifest.mainScript

Project main script (default: main.nf).

manifest.name

Project short name.

manifest.nextflowVersion

Minimum required Nextflow version.

This setting may be useful to ensure that a specific version is used:

manifest.nextflowVersion = '1.2.3'        // exact match
manifest.nextflowVersion = '1.2+'         // 1.2 or later (excluding 2 and later)
manifest.nextflowVersion = '>=1.2'        // 1.2 or later
manifest.nextflowVersion = '>=1.2, <=1.5' // any version in the 1.2 .. 1.5 range
manifest.nextflowVersion = '!>=1.2'       // with ! prefix, stop execution if current version does not match required version.
manifest.organization

Project organization

manifest.recurseSubmodules

Pull submodules recursively from the Git repository.

manifest.version

Project version number.

The above options can also be specified in a manifest block, for example:

manifest {
    homePage = 'http://foo.com'
    description = 'Pipeline does this and that'
    mainScript = 'foo.nf'
    version = '1.0.0'
}

Read the Sharing pipelines page to learn how to publish your pipeline to GitHub, BitBucket or GitLab.

nextflow

Deprecated since version 24.10.0: The nextflow.publish scope has been renamed to workflow.output. See workflow for more information.

notification

The notification scope allows you to define the automatic sending of a notification email message when the workflow execution terminates.

notification.attributes

A map object modelling the variables that can be used in the template file.

notification.enabled

Enables the sending of a notification message when the workflow execution completes.

notification.from

Sender address for the notification email message.

notification.template

Path of a template file which provides the content of the notification message.

notification.to

Recipient address for the notification email. Multiple addresses can be specified separating them with a comma.

The notification message is sent my using the STMP server defined in the configuration mail scope.

If no mail configuration is provided, it tries to send the notification message by using the external mail command eventually provided by the underlying system (e.g. sendmail or mail).

podman

The podman scope controls how Podman containers are executed by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

podman.enabled

Enable Podman execution (default: false).

podman.engineOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any option supported by the Podman engine i.e. podman [OPTIONS].

podman.envWhitelist

Comma separated list of environment variable names to be included in the container environment.

podman.mountFlags

Add the specified flags to the volume mounts e.g. mountFlags = 'ro,Z'.

podman.registry

The registry from where container images are pulled. It should be only used to specify a private registry server. It should NOT include the protocol prefix i.e. http://.

podman.remove

Clean-up the container after the execution (default: true).

podman.runOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any extra command line options supported by the podman run command.

podman.temp

Mounts a path of your choice as the /tmp directory in the container. Use the special value auto to create a temporary directory each time a container is created.

Read the Podman page to learn more about how to use Podman containers with Nextflow.

report

The report scope allows you to configure the workflow Execution report.

The following settings are available:

report.enabled

If true it create the workflow execution report.

report.file

The path of the created execution report file (default: report-<timestamp>.html).

report.overwrite

When true overwrites any existing report file with the same name.

sarus

The sarus scope controls how Sarus containers are executed by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

sarus.enabled

Enable Sarus execution (default: false).

sarus.envWhitelist

Comma separated list of environment variable names to be included in the container environment.

sarus.runOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any extra command line options supported by the sarus run command. For details see the Sarus user guide.

sarus.tty

Allocates a pseudo-tty (default: false).

Read the Sarus page to learn more about how to use Sarus containers with Nextflow.

shifter

The shifter scope controls how Shifter containers are executed by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

shifter.enabled

Enable Shifter execution (default: false).

Read the Shifter page to learn more about how to use Shifter containers with Nextflow.

singularity

The singularity scope controls how Singularity containers are executed by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

singularity.autoMounts

When true Nextflow automatically mounts host paths in the executed container. It requires the user bind control feature to be enabled in your Singularity installation (default: true).

Changed in version 23.09.0-edge: Default value was changed from false to true.

singularity.cacheDir

The directory where remote Singularity images are stored. When using a computing cluster it must be a shared folder accessible to all compute nodes.

singularity.enabled

Enable Singularity execution (default: false).

singularity.engineOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any option supported by the Singularity engine i.e. singularity [OPTIONS].

singularity.envWhitelist

Comma separated list of environment variable names to be included in the container environment.

singularity.libraryDir

Directory where remote Singularity images are retrieved. When using a computing cluster it must be a shared folder accessible to all compute nodes.

singularity.noHttps

Pull the Singularity image with http protocol (default: false).

singularity.ociAutoPull

New in version 23.12.0-edge.

When enabled, OCI (and Docker) container images are pull and converted to a SIF image file format implicitly by the Singularity run command, instead of Nextflow. Requires Singularity 3.11 or later (default: false).

Note

Leave ociAutoPull disabled if willing to build a Singularity native image with Wave (see the Build Singularity native images section).

singularity.ociMode

New in version 23.12.0-edge.

Enable OCI-mode, that allows running native OCI compliant container image with Singularity using crun or runc as low-level runtime. Note: it requires Singularity 4 or later. See --oci flag in the Singularity documentation for more details and requirements (default: false).

Note

Leave ociMode disabled if you are willing to build a Singularity native image with Wave (see the Build Singularity native images section).

singularity.pullTimeout

The amount of time the Singularity pull can last, exceeding which the process is terminated (default: 20 min).

singularity.registry

New in version 22.12.0-edge.

The registry from where Docker images are pulled. It should be only used to specify a private registry server. It should NOT include the protocol prefix i.e. http://.

singularity.runOptions

This attribute can be used to provide any extra command line options supported by singularity exec.

Read the Singularity page to learn more about how to use Singularity containers with Nextflow.

spack

The spack scope controls the creation of a Spack environment by the Spack package manager.

The following settings are available:

spack.cacheDir

Defines the path where Spack environments are stored. When using a compute cluster make sure to provide a shared file system path accessible from all compute nodes.

spack.checksum

Enables checksum verification for source tarballs (default: true). Only disable when requesting a package version not yet encoded in the corresponding Spack recipe.

spack.createTimeout

Defines the amount of time the Spack environment creation can last. The creation process is terminated when the timeout is exceeded (default: 60 min).

spack.parallelBuilds

Sets number of parallel package builds (Spack default: coincides with number of available CPU cores).

Nextflow does not allow for fine-grained configuration of the Spack package manager. Instead, this has to be performed directly on the host Spack installation. For more information see the Spack documentation.

timeline

The timeline scope controls the execution timeline report generated by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

timeline.enabled

When true enables the generation of the timeline report file (default: false).

timeline.file

Timeline file name (default: timeline-<timestamp>.html).

timeline.overwrite

When true overwrites any existing timeline file with the same name.

tower

The tower scope controls the settings for the Seqera Platform (formerly Tower Cloud).

The following settings are available:

tower.accessToken

The unique access token specific to your account on an instance of Seqera Platform.

Your accessToken can be obtained from your Seqera Platform instance in the Tokens page.

tower.enabled

When true Nextflow sends the workflow tracing and execution metrics to Seqera Platform (default: false).

tower.endpoint

The endpoint of your Seqera Platform instance (default: https://api.cloud.seqera.io).

tower.workspaceId

The ID of the Seqera Platform workspace where the run should be added (default: the launching user personal workspace).

The workspace ID can also be specified using the environment variable TOWER_WORKSPACE_ID (config file has priority over the environment variable).

trace

The trace scope controls the layout of the execution trace file generated by Nextflow.

The following settings are available:

trace.enabled

When true turns on the generation of the execution trace report file (default: false).

trace.fields

Comma separated list of fields to be included in the report. The available fields are listed at this page.

trace.file

Trace file name (default: trace-<timestamp>.txt).

trace.overwrite

When true overwrites any existing trace file with the same name.

trace.raw

When true turns on raw number report generation i.e. date and time are reported as milliseconds and memory as number of bytes.

trace.sep

Character used to separate values in each row (default: \t).

The above options can also be specified in a trace block, for example:

trace {
    enabled = true
    file = 'pipeline_trace.txt'
    fields = 'task_id,name,status,exit,realtime,%cpu,rss'
}

Read the Trace file page to learn more about the execution report that can be generated by Nextflow.

wave

The wave scope provides advanced configuration for the use of Wave containers.

The following settings are available:

wave.enabled

Enable/disable the use of Wave containers.

wave.build.repository

The container repository where images built by Wave are uploaded (note: the corresponding credentials must be provided in your Seqera Platform account).

wave.build.cacheRepository

The container repository used to cache image layers built by the Wave service (note: the corresponding credentials must be provided in your Seqera Platform account).

wave.build.conda.basePackages

One or more Conda packages to be always added in the resulting container (default: conda-forge::procps-ng).

wave.build.conda.commands

One or more commands to be added to the Dockerfile used to build a Conda based image.

wave.build.conda.mambaImage

The Mamba container image is used to build Conda based container. This is expected to be micromamba-docker image.

wave.build.spack.basePackages

New in version 22.06.0-edge.

One or more Spack packages to be always added in the resulting container.

wave.build.spack.commands

New in version 22.06.0-edge.

One or more commands to be added to the Dockerfile used to build a Spack based image.

wave.endpoint

The Wave service endpoint (default: https://wave.seqera.io).

wave.freeze

New in version 23.07.0-edge.

Enables Wave container freezing. Wave will provision a non-ephemeral container image that will be pushed to a container repository of your choice. It requires the use of the wave.build.repository setting.

It is also recommended to specify a custom cache repository using wave.build.cacheRepository.

Note

The container repository authentication must be managed by the underlying infrastructure.

wave.httpClient.connectTime

New in version 22.06.0-edge.

Sets the connection timeout duration for the HTTP client connecting to the Wave service (default: 30s).

wave.mirror

New in version 24.09.1-edge.

Enables Wave container mirroring.

This feature allow mirroring (i.e. copying) the containers defined in your pipeline configuration to a container registry of your choice, so that pipeline tasks will pull the copied containers from the target registry instead of the original one.

The resulting copied containers will maintain the name, digest and metadata.

The target registry is expected to be specified by using the wave.build.repository option.

Note

  • This feature is only compatible with wave.strategy = 'container' option.

  • This feature cannot be used with Wave freeze mode.

  • The authentication of the resulting container images must be managed by the underlying infrastructure.

wave.retryPolicy.delay

New in version 22.06.0-edge.

The initial delay when a failing HTTP request is retried (default: 150ms).

wave.retryPolicy.jitter

New in version 22.06.0-edge.

The jitter factor used to randomly vary retry delays (default: 0.25).

wave.retryPolicy.maxAttempts

New in version 22.06.0-edge.

The max number of attempts a failing HTTP request is retried (default: 5).

wave.retryPolicy.maxDelay

New in version 22.06.0-edge.

The max delay when a failing HTTP request is retried (default: 90 seconds).

wave.scan.mode

New in version 24.09.1-edge.

Determines the container security scanning execution modality.

This feature allows scanning for security vulnerability the container used in your pipeline. The following options can be specified:

  • none: No security scan is performed on the containers used by your pipeline.

  • async: The containers used by your pipeline are scanned for security vulnerability. The task execution is carried out independently of the security scan result.

  • required: The containers used by your pipeline are scanned for security vulnerability. The task is only executed if the corresponding container is not affected by a security vulnerability.

wave.scan.allowedLevels

New in version 24.09.1-edge.

Determines the allowed security levels when scanning containers for security vulnerabilities.

Allowed values are: low, medium, high, critical. For example: wave.scan.allowedLevels = 'low,medium'.

This option requires the use of wave.scan.mode = 'required'.

wave.strategy

The strategy to be used when resolving ambiguous Wave container requirements (default: 'container,dockerfile,conda').

workflow

New in version 24.10.0.

The workflow scope provides workflow execution options.

workflow.failOnIgnore

New in version 24.05.0-edge.

When true, the pipeline will exit with a non-zero exit code if any failed tasks are ignored using the ignore error strategy.

workflow.onComplete

Specify a closure that will be invoked at the end of a workflow run (including failed runs). See Workflow handlers for more information.

workflow.onError

Specify a closure that will be invoked if a workflow run is terminated. See Workflow handlers for more information.

workflow.output.contentType

Currently only supported for S3.

Specify the media type, also known as MIME type, of published files (default: false). Can be a string (e.g. 'text/html'), or true to infer the content type from the file extension.

workflow.output.enabled

Enable or disable publishing (default: true).

workflow.output.ignoreErrors

When true, the workflow will not fail if a file can’t be published for some reason (default: false).

workflow.output.mode

The file publishing method (default: 'symlink'). The following options are available:

'copy'

Copy each file into the output directory.

'copyNoFollow'

Copy each file into the output directory without following symlinks, i.e. only the link is copied.

'link'

Create a hard link in the output directory for each file.

'move'

Move each file into the output directory.

Should only be used for files which are not used by downstream processes in the workflow.

'rellink'

Create a relative symbolic link in the output directory for each file.

'symlink'

Create an absolute symbolic link in the output directory for each output file.

workflow.output.overwrite

When true any existing file in the specified folder will be overwritten (default: 'standard'). The following options are available:

false

Never overwrite existing files.

true

Always overwrite existing files.

'deep'

Overwrite existing files when the file content is different.

'lenient'

Overwrite existing files when the file size is different.

'standard'

Overwrite existing files when the file size or last modified timestamp is different.

workflow.output.retryPolicy.delay

Delay when retrying a failed publish operation (default: 350ms).

workflow.output.retryPolicy.jitter

Jitter value when retrying a failed publish operation (default: 0.25).

workflow.output.retryPolicy.maxAttempt

Max attempts when retrying a failed publish operation (default: 5).

workflow.output.retryPolicy.maxDelay

Max delay when retrying a failed publish operation (default: 90s).

workflow.output.storageClass

Currently only supported for S3.

Specify the storage class for published files.

workflow.output.tags

Currently only supported for S3.

Specify arbitrary tags for published files. For example:

tags FOO: 'hello', BAR: 'world'