FR: Cloning a workspace should optionally clone data in the workspace bucket

Post author
Matt Bookman

When cloning a workspace today, the contents of the workspace bucket are not cloned, with the exception of the "/notebooks" directory.

This is an understandable default, as workspaces for running workflows can have a lot of data stored in the Cromwell submission execution directories, which you would not typically want to clone.

However, it would be nice to be able to publish a workspace and have a clone of it be a complete clone. The workspace bucket could contain sample data or README files or PDFs of papers.

Options for this today are to put these files:

  • into the /notebooks workspace bucket path.
  • into a Google bucket in a non-Terra project (and just reference them from the workspace).
  • into the workspace bucket and give instructions on how to reference/copy

any of these approaches are okay. Each has its trade-offs.

One approach to implementing this would be to have a dialog when cloning a workspace such that the user could select which workspace bucket folders to clone.

Comments

2 comments

  • Comment author
    Emil Furat

    Hi Matt,​ 

     

    Thank you for writing in! I've sent this request to our development team for consideration, and I'll be happy to follow up with you if this feature gets built.

     

    Kind regards,

    Emil​ 

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  • Comment author
    Laura Gauthier

    Is there a workaround for this?  I have a workspace that's going to become a featured workspace and the notebook relies on files in the bucket.

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