Packaging/Ubuntu

Ubuntu is the reference platform for OpenStack. We follow the Ubuntu release cycle very closely, and do most of our QA on Ubuntu.

If you want to run OpenStack on Ubuntu, there are a few options, depending on your stability requirements and which version of Ubuntu you're running.

Ubuntu version	Only what is in Ubuntu	Only stable releases
10.04 LTS (Lucid)	N/A	Milestone PPA
10.10 (Maverick)	Pre-Austin snapshot	Milestone PPA
11.04 (Natty)	Frequent snapshots.< >Cactus expected in final release	Release PPA

Trunk PPA

A PPA<<FootNote(Personal Package Archive: an extra apt repository you can add to your sources.list to get access to software not in Ubuntu.)>> where we will upload a new version for every single commit on trunk.

Information and instructions for use can be found on Launchpad for Nova, and similarly for Swift and Glance.

The packages are built by grabbing the latest tarball from http://nova.openstack.org/tarballs/ and adding lp:~openstack-ubuntu-packagers/ubuntu/natty/nova/ubuntu on top of it, and adding a changelog entry.

Release PPA

Information and instructions for use can be found on Launchpad for Nova, and similarly for Swift and Glance..

A PPA<<FootNote(Personal Package Archive: an extra apt repository you can add to your sources.list to get access to software not in Ubuntu.)>> where we will upload only final releases.