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-title: Installation overview
+title: Installation options
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+{% comment %}
+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
+{% endcomment %}
-h2. Quick installation
+{% include 'notebox_begin' %}
+This section is about installing an Arvados cluster. If you are just looking to install Arvados client tools and libraries, "go to the SDK section.":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/
+{% include 'notebox_end' %}
-Make sure curl and docker are installed on your system. Then, as a user in the docker group, execute
+Arvados components run on supported GNU/Linux distributions. The Arvados elastic compute management layer supports Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms as well as on-premises installs using SLURM and IBM Spectrum LSF. The Arvados storage layer supports filesystem storage (including NFS, such as IBM GPFS), Azure blob storage, Amazon S3, and systems that offer an S3-compatible API such as Ceph Object Gateway and NetApp StorageGRID.
-<notextile>
-<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">\curl -sSL http://get.arvados.org | bash</span>
-</code></pre></notextile>
+"Arvados is Free Software":{{site.baseurl}}/user/copying/copying.html and self-install installations are not limited in any way. Commercial support and development are also available from "Curii Corporation.":https://www.curii.com/
-This command will download the latest copy of the Arvados docker images. It also gets the arvdock command and saves it in the current working directory. It then uses arvdock to spin up Arvados. Depending on the speed of your internet connection, it can take a while to download the Arvados docker images.
+Arvados components can be installed and configured in a number of different ways.
-This installation method assumes your web browser and the Arvados docker containers run on the same host.
+<div class="offset1">
+table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
+||_. Setup difficulty|_. Arvados Evaluation|_. Development|_. Production Data Management|_. Production Workflows|
+|"Arvados-in-a-box":arvbox.html (arvbox)|Easy|yes|limited|no|no|
+|"Arados Installer":salt-single-host.html (single host)|Easy|yes|limited|limited|limited|
+|"Arados Installer":salt-multi-host.html (multi host)|Moderate|yes|yes|yes|yes|
+|"Manual installation":install-manual-prerequisites.html|Difficult|yes|yes|yes|yes|
+|"Cluster Operation Subscription supported by Curii":https://curii.com|N/A ^1^|yes|yes|yes|yes|
+</div>
-h2. Installation from source
-
-It is also possible to build the Arvados docker images from source. The instructions are available "here":install-docker.html.
-
-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^ No user installation necessary. Curii engineers will install and configure Arvados in your own infrastructure.
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