Get OpenStack
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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 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:
DevOps Installers
For those that deploy rather than install, there are several DevOps options for automating your installation of OpenStack.
Chef
See Chef/GettingStarted page for a starting point. There is also an Chef for OpenStack page that goes further in depth.
There are multiple Chef cookbooks, but there is a dedicated community of developers from AT&T, IBM, Rackspace and other companies working on the set on StackForge:
- StackForge Chef repository for deployment
- 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 [1]
- Dell Crowbar is an OpenStack deployment solution built on top of Chef. They maintain their Chef recipes on github at crowbar/crowbar
- 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 puppetlabs/puppetlabs-openstack.
- NII developed a Puppet-based tool called dodai-deploy. It is available for download on github at nii-cloud/dodai-deploy. Documentation for dodai-deploy can be found on the wiki at its github site.
- RDO, at 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 Juju charms for OpenStack, see the Juju charm browser.
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
- Piston Cloud Computing offers a free trial of their Piston Enterprise OpenStack product.
- Nebula is developing an OpenStack appliance.
- Cloudscaling is an enterprise grade Open Cloud System built with OpenStack.
- 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 StackOps Community Edition.
- SUSE provides SUSE Cloud based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
- Mirantis provides Mirantis OpenStack, which is a scalable, hardened distribution of OpenStack. Also included are the open-source Fuel project, key related projects and certified third-party plug-ins.
- Red Hat provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, OpenStack integrated tightly to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with a large array of certified OpenStack partners.
- Canonical, the first company to commercially distribute and support OpenStack, provides Ubuntu, which remains the reference operating system for the project.
Miscellaneous Notes
If you're a packager looking for packaging tips, see PackagerResources.