Orchestra Platform Documentation

Time-limited RStudio, JupyterLab, or custom-container workshop sessions on Kubernetes — sign-in and cleanup handled for you. The platform behind Bioconductor workshops at conferences and courses.

Using Orchestra

Use the hosted platform at orchestraplatform.org — nothing to install.

I'm attending a workshop Launch your session, connect, save your work, and get more time when you need it.

I want to add a workshop Build a workshop container, make it Orchestra-ready, and submit it to the catalog.

I'm teaching a workshop Plan a class or conference session and coordinate capacity with the platform admin.

Running your own Orchestra

Standing up and operating an Orchestra instance yourself — Kubernetes, Helm, and the command line. Most workshop attendees, contributors, and instructors don’t need this.

Deploy Orchestra Stand up the platform: cluster, Helm install, ingress, TLS, and auth.

Administer & operate Warm capacity for an event, monitor sessions, and keep an instance healthy.

How it works The operator, API, frontend, and sidecar — and the decisions behind them.

What Orchestra is good for

• Teaching & workshops — bioinformatics courses, data-science bootcamps, conference tutorials.
• Research — reproducible analysis sessions and collaborative environments.
• Any stack — point a template at any container image; it isn’t limited to a single field or toolchain.