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-title: Installation overview
+title: Installation options
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+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
-Arvados can be installed in multiple ways. Arvados does not depend on any particular cloud operating stack. Arvados runs on one or more GNU/Linux system(s). Arvados is being developed on Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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-h2. Quick installation
+Arvados components run on GNU/Linux systems, and supports multiple cloud operating stacks. Arvados supports Debian and derivatives such as Ubuntu, as well as Red Hat and derivatives such as CentOS. "Arvados is Free Software":{{site.baseurl}}/copying/copying.html and self-install installations are not limited in any way. Commercial support and development are also available from "Curii Corporation.":mailto:info@curii.com
-Make sure curl and docker are installed on your system. Then, as a user in the docker group, execute
+Arvados components can be installed and configured in a number of different ways.
-<notextile>
-<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">\curl -sSL http://get.arvados.org | bash</span>
-</code></pre></notextile>
+<div class="offset1">
+table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
+|||\5=. Appropriate for|
+||_. Ease of setup|_. Multiuser/networked access|_. Workflow Development and Testing|_. Large Scale Production|_. Development of Arvados|_. Arvados System Testing|
+|"Arvados-in-a-box":arvbox.html (arvbox)|Easy|no|yes|no|yes|yes|
+|"Arvados on Kubernetes":arvados-on-kubernetes.html|Easy ^1^|yes|yes ^2^|no ^2^|no|yes|
+|"Manual installation":install-manual-prerequisites.html|Complicated|yes|yes|yes|no|no|
+|"Cluster Operation Subscription supported by Curii":mailto:info@curii.com|N/A ^3^|yes|yes|yes|yes|yes|
+</div>
-This command will download the latest copy of the Arvados docker images as well as the arvdock command. It then uses arvdock to spin up Arvados on this computer. Depending on the speed of your internet connection, it can take a while to download the Arvados docker images.
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-h2. Installation from source
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-It is also possible to build the Arvados docker images from source. The instructions are available "here":install-docker.html.
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-For production use or evaluation at scale a "Manual Installation":install-manual-overview.html is more appropriate. This installation method assumes you have a number of (virtual) machines at your disposal to install the different Arvados components onto.
+* ^1^ Assumes a Kubernetes cluster is available
+* ^2^ Arvados on Kubernetes is under development and not yet ready for production use
+* ^3^ No user installation necessary, Curii run and managed
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