This documentation is aimed at system administrators and business leaders who want to deploy the Arkindex platform on their own hardware.
This documentation is aimed at **system administrators** and **business leaders** who wish to deploy the Arkindex platform on their own hardware or cloud provider instead of using instances provided by Teklia (like [demo.arkindex.org](https://demo.arkindex.org)).
If you are interested in using Arkindex on your own documents, but **cannot publish them on our own instances** (due to privacy or regulatory concerns), it's possible to deploy the full Arkindex platform on your own infrastructure.
If you are interested in using Arkindex on your own documents, but **cannot publish them on publicly available instances** (due to privacy or regulatory concerns), it's possible to deploy the full Arkindex platform on your own infrastructure.
In the following sections, we'll describe the requirements needed to run an efficient and scalable Arkindex infrastructure using **Docker containers** on your own hardware. This setup is able to handle millions of documents to process with multiple Machine Learning processes.
We currently offer [two editions of Arkindex](@/overview/license.md):
1. Community Edition, under the AGPL-v3 open-source license, suitable if your project is also open-source,
2. Enterprise Edition, suitable for all proprietary projects.
Please [contact us](https://teklia.com/company/contact/) if you are interested in Arkindex for your company or institution. We offer dedicated services for all your arkindex needs (training, setup, project consulting, feature development,...)
In this section you'll find out how to:
1. setup [Arkindex](@/deployment/setup.md), in production mode,
## Requirements
## Pricing
Arkindex needs a few hard-requirements to run on your own hardware:
-[Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) is needed, as we only deploy through Docker images,
- Linux servers are the only Operating System support. We heavily recommend using [Ubuntu LTS](https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop)
- All your images must be hosted on a [IIIF](https://iiif.io/) server, or you'll need to expose them through a local IIIF server
Please [contact us](https://teklia.com/company/contact/) if you are interested in this solution for your company or institution.
To run the Enterprise Edition, your servers must be able to make regular API calls (a few times a day) on aremote server to validate its licence. The server does **not** necessarily need to be exposed to Internet, but simply be able to make requests towards a domain.
We can also provide a private instance that we manage on our servers (hosted in Europe or North America).
## Content
## Requirements
In this section you'll find out how to:
- Use Linux servers and Docker. We provide support for the Ubuntu LTS distribution, and only provide Docker images to run our software.
- Your instance must be able to make regular API calls (once a day) on a remote server to validate its licence. The server does **not** need to be exposed to Internet, but simply be able to make requests towards a domain.
1. pick an [architecture](@/deployment/architecture.md) that suits your needs
2. choose your [own hardware](@/deployment/hardware.md) to run Arkindex efficiently that suits your needs
3. setup [Arkindex](@/deployment/setup.md) in production mode,
