Installing a Development Arvados Instance¶

Arvados is primarily intended as a system to be run on large server clusters. For developers, we have provided a process to build and deploy the Arvados system in Docker containers on a single machine.

The full process of configuring and building a Docker instance of Arvados is documented in the docker/README.md file in the source distribution. After following those instructions, install the client libraries on your workstation as well.

Once you have installed the servers and started them with arvdock start, and installed the client libraries, you should be able to work through the user tutorials to upload data into Arvados and run simple Crunch jobs.