Gen3 Documentation Skip to content Gen3 Documentation Home Gen3.org Initializing search GitHub Gen3 Documentation GitHub Home About Gen3 Gen3 Community User Guide User Guide Search for Data Access Data Files Analyze Data Data Portal Use the API Operator Guide - Deploy Gen3 Operator Guide - Deploy Gen3 Prerequisites for Deploying Gen3 Pre-Deployment Pre-Deployment Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code - Overview Terraform Terragrunt Atlantis Prepare SSL Certificate Authentication Methods Setup Gen3 (Configure and Deploy) with Helm Setup Gen3 (Configure and Deploy) with Helm Deployment Overview Example - Minimal Local Deployment Example - Production Deployment Databases in Gen3 Helm charts Configure services with Helm Configure services with Helm AuthN/AuthZ Data-related Services Front End Workspaces Revproxy Data Submission and Search Configuration Data Submission and Search Configuration Create Data Dictionary Submit Data Submit Data Structured Data Unstructured Data Semi-structured data Controlling data authorization Customize Gen3 Search Customize the Front End Secrets and Security Secrets and Security Secrets Manager Create an AWS IAM Global User Observability and Monitoring Observability and Monitoring Observability Grafana Alloy Helm Chart Grafana Alloy and Faro Microservice Jobs and Tutorials Microservice Jobs and Tutorials About Jobs in Gen3 Fence Usersync Cronjob Developer Guide - Extend Gen3 Developer Guide - Extend Gen3 Gen3 Architecture Key Repositories Gen3 APIs for Devs Contribute Code to Gen3 Tools Tools Gen3 Data Client Gen3 SDK Blog Blog Archive Archive 2026 2024 2023 Categories Categories For Gen3 Operators From CTDS How does Gen3... Authors Authors Ed Malinowski Jawad Qureshi Sara Volk de Garcia Elise Castle Frequently Asked Questions Glossary Demo @ gen3.datacommons.io Gen3 Documentation¶ This is your home for all technical documentation related to the design, deployment, use, and maintenance of a Gen3 data commons or mesh. Please visit Gen3.org if you would like a high-level overview of Gen3 as well as details about the Gen3 philosophy, community events, and governance. Gen3 documentation is organized by the category of person interacting with Gen3: Gen3 User - This is a data scientist, researcher, or analyst who needs to explore, download, or analyze data found within an existing instance of Gen3. Gen3 Developer - This is a software engineer who wants to extend Gen3 either by contributing to the source code or by integrating Gen3 services into a larger system. This section will cover the Gen3 architecture including the individual microservices and how they interact with each other. Gen3 Operator - This is for those organizations who operate their own Gen3 instances. It will include content on how to Deploy or Spin up a Gen3 instance, configure a data dictionary and upload data, and customize the frontend. Next About Gen3 Made with Material for MkDocs Center for Translational Data Science