Get OpenStack

2014-07-29T17:12:58Z

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= How to get OpenStack =

OpenStack is a large and fast moving project. We are also an upstream
project, with a large community of packagers and distributions who
redistribute our work.

The best way to install OpenStack is to rely on one of the downstream
distributions, which will take care of many of the details for you.
There are also source code installers oriented towards developers.

Also, you don't have to install OpenStack - there are Cloud services
that can provide OpenStack, without ever installing the software.

The current release of OpenStack is [[ReleaseNotes/Havana|2013.2 Havana]]

== Get the source code ==
Refer to [[Getting The Code]]

== Linux Distributions Including OpenStack ==

OpenStack is available for all major Linux Distributions. Refer to the install documentation for more:
* [http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/ Havana]
* [http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/ Grizzly]

== [[DevOps]] Installers ==

For those that deploy rather than install, there are several DevOps options for automating your installation of OpenStack.

=== Chef ===

See [https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Chef/GettingStarted Chef/GettingStarted] page for a starting point. There is also an [http://docs.opscode.com/openstack.html Chef for OpenStack] page that goes further in depth.

There are multiple [http://opscode.com/chef Chef] cookbooks, but there is a dedicated community of developers from AT&T, IBM, Rackspace and other companies working on the set on StackForge:
* [https://github.com/stackforge/openstack-chef-repo StackForge Chef repository for deployment]
* [https://github.com/search?q=%40stackforge+cookbook StackForge Chef cookbook repositories for each OpenStack service]

There are alternative repositories available:
* Rackspace Cloud Builders maintain a set of repositories with openstack-related chef cookbooks on github at [https://github.com/rcbops/chef-cookbooks]
* [http://www.dell.com/crowbar Dell Crowbar] is an OpenStack deployment solution built on top of Chef. They maintain their Chef recipes on github at [https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar crowbar/crowbar]
* [https://susestudio.com/a/Mrr6vv/suse-cloud-3-admin SUSE Cloud Admin Appliance] is powered by OpenStack and allows you to deploy OpenStack quickly and easily using Crowbar on Chef

=== Puppet ===

* Puppet Labs maintains a set of puppet modules for OpenStack at [http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-openstack puppetlabs/puppetlabs-openstack].
* NII developed a Puppet-based tool called [https://github.com/nii-cloud/dodai-deploy/wiki dodai-deploy]. It is available for download on github at [https://github.com/nii-cloud/dodai-deploy nii-cloud/dodai-deploy]. Documentation for dodai-deploy can be found on the wiki at its github site.
* RDO, at [http://openstack.redhat.com/ openstack.redhat.com], is a packaging of OpenStack for Red Hat distributions (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, SL) using Packstack, which uses Puppet.

=== Juju ===

* Canonical maintains a collection of [http://juju.ubuntu.com Juju] charms for OpenStack, see the [http://jujucharms.com/charms Juju charm browser].

== Developer Installers ==

For developers, there are installers that create a core development
environment.

* [http://devstack.org/ Devstack] is the developer installer.
* [http://anvil.readthedocs.org/ ANVIL] is version of devstack, written in Python.

== OpenStack Public Clouds ==

* [https://www.cloudwatt.com/en/ CloudWatt Cloud Services]
* [http://hpcloud.com/ HP Helion Public Cloud]
* [http://internap.com/ Internap AgileCLOUD]
* [http://www.io.com IO IO.Cloud]
* [http://www.kionetworks.com/ KIO Networks Kloud Open Edition]
* [http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/ RackSpace Public Cloud]
* [http://www.ustack.com/ UnitedStack UOS Cloud]
* [http://www.vexxhost.com/ Vexxhost Public Cloud]

== Commercial Distributions ==

* [//canonical.com Canonical], the first company to commercially distribute and support OpenStack, provides [http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/ Ubuntu], which remains the reference operating system for the project.
* [http://www.cloudscaling.com/ Cloudscaling] is an enterprise grade Open Cloud System built with OpenStack.
* [http://www.metacloud.com Metacloud] provides [http://www.metacloud.com Metacloud OpenStack®], a remotely engineered and operated distribution of OpenStack that provides a public cloud experience for developers and administrators, privately in any data center.
* [http://www.mirantis.com/ Mirantis] provides [http://software.mirantis.com/ Mirantis OpenStack], which is a scalable, hardened distribution of OpenStack. Also included are the [https://github.com/search?q=%40stackforge+fuel open-source Fuel project], key related projects and certified third-party plug-ins.
* [http://www.nebula.com/ Nebula] is developing an OpenStack appliance.
* [http://www.pistoncloud.com/download/ Piston Cloud Computing] offers a free trial of their Piston Enterprise OpenStack product.
* [//redhat.com Red Hat] provides [//www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/openstack-platform/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform], OpenStack integrated tightly to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with a large array of certified OpenStack partners.
* [http://www.stackops.com/ StackOps] provides [[StackOps]] Enterprise Edition for IT Professionals, Hosters and Services Providers. It also offers a free version for small Private Clouds and Testing Labs [http://docs.stackops.org/display/STACKOPSDOCS/Home/ StackOps Community Edition].
* [https://www.suse.com/ SUSE] provides [https://www.suse.com/cloud SUSE Cloud] based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

== Miscellaneous Notes ==

If you're a packager looking for packaging tips, see [[PackagerResources]].

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