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.

1. Install the Arvados servers in Docker containers. The full process of configuring and building a Docker instance of Arvados is documented in the docker/README.md file in the source distribution.
2. Install the client SDKs. After following those instructions, install the client libraries on your workstation as well:
   1. RVM -- if you do not already have RVM installed on your workstation, install it now.
      1. sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev python-pip
      2. curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
      3. source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
      4. rvm install 2.1.0
   2. Install the arvados-cli gem:
      1. gem install arvados-cli
      2. sudo pip install --upgrade httplib2
3. Install the Warehouse client library for Perl. Running Crunch jobs locally requires having the Warehouse SDK for Perl installed locally. Execute these commands:
   1. echo "deb http://git.freelogy.org/apt precise main contrib non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freelogy.list
   2. wget -q http://dev.freelogy.org/53212765.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
   3. sudo apt-get update
   4. sudo apt-get install libwarehouse-perl

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 in debug mode.