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-title: Overview
+title: Installation options
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+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
-h2. Installation Overview
+{% 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' %}
-# Set up a cluster, or use Amazon
-# Create and mount Keep volumes
-# "Install the Single Sign On (SSO) server":install-sso.html
-# "Install the Arvados REST API server":install-api-server.html
-# "Install the Arvados workbench application":install-workbench-app.html
-# "Install the Crunch dispatcher":install-crunch-dispatch.html
-# "Create standard objects":create-standard-objects.html
-# Install client libraries (see "SDK Reference":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/index.html).
+Arvados components run on GNU/Linux systems, and supports AWS, GCP and Azure cloud platforms as well as on-premises installs. Arvados supports Debian and derivatives such as Ubuntu, as well as Red Hat and derivatives such as CentOS. "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.":mailto:info@curii.com
+
+Arvados components can be installed and configured in a number of different ways.
+
+<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 Evaluation|
+|"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>
+
+* ^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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