Creating a cluster
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**Requirements**

- Client machine: 
    - Windows, Mac, or Linux, 64-bit
    - Anaconda for cluster management client library installed
- Cluster Nodes:
    - One or more 64-bit Linux machines with 8+ GB RAM, 8+ cores (recommended)
    - Access to ports 22, 4505, and 4506 from the client machine to the cluster nodes to provision the cluster via SSH and Salt

**Supported operating systems**

For the cluster nodes, we support and test Anaconda for cluster management with
the following Linux distributions:

* CentOS 6 and CentOS 7
* RHEL 6 and RHEL 7
* Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 14.04

**Cloud-based or bare-metal cluster creation**

For more information about configuring and creating a cloud-based or bare-metal
cluster, refer to the following documentation:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   
   create-cloud
   create-bare
