h2(#introduction). Introduction
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To ease the installation of the various Arvados components, we have developed a "Saltstack":https://www.saltstack.com/ 's "arvados-formula":https://git.arvados.org/arvados-formula.git which can help you get an Arvados cluster up and running.
Saltstack is a Python-based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management. It can be used in a _master/minion_ setup (where a master node orchestrates and coordinates the configuration of nodes in an infrastructure) or <i>master-less</i>, where Saltstack is run locally in a node, with no communication with a master node.
This is a package-based installation method.
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h2(#provisioning_arvados). Provisioning Arvados with Saltstack
The "tools/salt-install":https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/tree/{{ branchname }}:/tools/salt-install directory in the Arvados git repository contains a script that you can run in the node/s where you want to install Arvados' components (the @provision.sh@ script) and a few configuration examples for different setups, that you can use to customize your installation.