Arvados Contributor Wiki¶

This wiki has information related to the open source project. It's a work in progress, so come back often for updates and feel free to become a contributor.

• Table of contents
• Arvados Contributor Wiki
  • Platform Overview
  • Release Notes
  • Key Components
  • Using Arvados
  • Contributing and hacking
  • Community
  • Legal

Platform Overview¶

• Introduction to Arvados
• Technical Architecture
• Cloud Operating Systems and Virtualization
• Provenance and Reproducibility
• Federation and Data Sharing
• Glossary of Arvados Terms

Release Notes¶

Please see our blog

Key Components¶

• Keep, the content addressable distributed storage service
  • Data Manager
• Computation and Pipeline Processing
• System and Metadata Database
  • REST API Server
• SDKs, including the Python library and the CLI "arv" tool
• Workbench, the web-based application for doing day-to-day work in Arvados
• Node Manager dynamically starts and stops cloud compute nodes based on demand in the job queue
  • Lifecycle of an Arvados compute node

Using Arvados¶

• Release Status — Important!
• Documentation Site — Main page for all the docs.
• User Guide — How to manage data and do analysis with Arvados.
• API Reference — Details about the Arvados APIs.
• SDK Reference — Details about the Arvados SDKs.
• Admin Guide — Basic information about administration.
• Install Guide — Instructions for installing Arvados.
• How to Report Issues in Arvados -- including some notes about safely reporting bugs in a public forum.

Contributing and hacking¶

• Hacking HQ: introductory material for new developers, and index of resources for all of us
• Source Tree Overview and implementation status
• Installing a Development Arvados Instance
• How to Contribute
• Documentation Project
• Design Principles
• Proposals and work-in-progress design documents

Community¶

• Mission and Principles
• Governance
• IRC and Mailing Lists
• Design Process
• History
• Arvados Summit - Fall 2013

Legal¶

• Licensing Terms