Get OpenStack
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 2012.1 Essex
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Linux Distributions Including OpenStack
OpenStack is avaliable for all major Linux Distributions.
Debian GNU/Linux wheezy
All core OpenStack Essex components are officially supported and available in the Main wheezy archive:
Essex can be deployed with a HOWTO and puppet modules.
Fedora 17 / Fedora 16 / EPEL 6
- Fedora 17 (May 2012) will ship with OpenStack Essex
- The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository supporting RHEL >= 6.2 and derivatives will update from Diablo to Essex
- You can get Fedora/EPEL OpenStack package details at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/s/openstack
- Install/Setup notes for Essex
- An unofficial Essex repository for Fedora 16
- Fedora
- RHEL
OpenSUSE 12.1 / SLES11 SP2
- https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=isv:B1-Systems:OpenStack:release:Essex
- https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=isv:B1-Systems:OpenStack:release:Essex:requirements
You can find all details about the repositories for OpenSUSE 12.1 and SLES11 SP2 on our packaging site in the wiki: Packaging/SUSE
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
All core OpenStack Essex components are officially supported and available in the Main Precise Ubuntu archive:
Note: Horizon and Keystone are currently located in Universe as they undergo a security review before promotion to Main for the 12.04 Precise release (April 26th 2012)-~
Incubated projects Quantum and Melange are available for Precise in Universe
Essex can be deployed on Ubuntu Server using MAAS and Juju.
Martin Loschwitz has written a wonderful step-by-step guide for manually installing Essex on Ubuntu 12.04
DevOps Installers
For those that deploy rather than install, there are several DevOps options.
- http://www.dell.com/crowbar Dell Crowbar supports deployment of OpenStack.
- Puppet modules
for OpenStack are available.
- Chef cookbooks for Openstack are
available.
Developer Installers
For developers, there are installers that create a core development environment.
OpenStack as a Service
- TryStack is an easy way to try OpenStack.
- RackSpace Cloud is powered by OpenStack
- HPCloud is powered by OpenStack
Commercial Distributions
- Nebula offers an OpenStack applicance.
- Piston Cloud Computing offers and Enterprise OpenStack distribution.
miscellaneous notes
If you're a packager looking for packaging tips, see PackagerResources.
For Quantum, see QuantumPackages.