Features

Wave provides several container capabilities. The hosted Wave service supports them all and is free for anyone using Nextflow, the Wave CLI, or the API.

Self-hosted Wave is available in Wave and Wave Lite configurations. The matrix below shows which features each configuration provides.

Feature	Wave	Wave Lite	Summary
Container augmentation	✓	✓	Inject custom layers such as scripts, config, Fusion, or module binaries into existing container images at pull time. Rebuilds are not required.
Container inspection	✓	✓	Retrieve manifest, config, and layer metadata for any container without pulling the layers.
Private registry authentication	✓	✓	Access private container registries using credentials stored in Seqera Platform. No secrets in pipeline code.
On-demand container builds	✓		Build container images just-in-time from a Dockerfile, Singularity recipe, Conda environment, Conda lock file, or list of PyPI or CRAN packages.
Container freeze	✓		Build a permanent image and push it to a registry of your choice for a stable URI.
Container mirroring	✓		Copy a container image to a registry of your choice while preserving its original name and digest.
Security scanning	✓		Scan images for known vulnerabilities with Trivy. Generate Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs).

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Seqera Enterprise customers can also license Wave for self-hosted deployment. Contact us for more information.