Release Status¶

Arvados is currently (April 2013) not ready to install and use. Rather than wait for a particular level of readiness, we have chosen to make our source code and ideas available early. If you are interested in helping to design and improve Arvados, you can do that now.

Some components have been implemented, and we are running them in our own test/production environments.

• REST API server
• Client-side pipeline manager

Some components currently exist only as prototypes in the Free Factories predecessor project. Porting these to Arvados is our current development focus.

• Keep server
• Crunch MapReduce job manager

Some components have not been implemented yet. We think it's important to describe them to establish scope, even though they are currently vaporware. We also hope to attract early feedback.

• Lightning
• Compact genome format

APIs are in active development.

• REST API is getting stable but isn't at 1.0 yet
• Keep API is likely to change (primarily for authentication/permission features)
• Crunch API (used by job tasks) is likely to change

SDKs are in active development.

• Rails SDK (an ActiveRecord-like interface) is not yet packaged separately from the Workbench app
• Python SDK (based on the Google API client) could use better auth-token integration
• Command line tool usage is subject to change
• All SDKs need docs

Documentation is in active development.

• Tutorials and examples need to be improved as APIs stabilize
• API docs need to be filled in (many models are currently documented only as source code in /services/api/)
• Admin docs are a placeholder
• Install docs are a placeholder