Download & Install OpenStack
OpenStack isn't a single installer — it's a set of services you deploy with a tool. Here are every official path, from a single-node dev sandbox to a multi-node production cloud.
DevStack
Dev / TestThe official quick-install script for a single-node OpenStack environment. Standard for development, CI, and trying OpenStack for the first time — not for production.
$ git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/devstack$ cd devstack$ ./stack.shKolla-Ansible
ProductionDeploys OpenStack as production-ready Docker containers using Ansible playbooks. The most common way to run OpenStack in production today.
$ pip install kolla-ansible$ kolla-ansible install-deps$ kolla-genpwd$ kolla-ansible bootstrap-servers -i multinode$ kolla-ansible deploy -i multinodeOpenStack-Ansible
ProductionDeploys OpenStack directly onto hosts (LXC containers, not Docker) using Ansible — an alternative production deployment path maintained by the OpenStack project itself.
$ git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible /opt/openstack-ansible$ cd /opt/openstack-ansible$ ./scripts/bootstrap-ansible.shCanonical OpenStack (Sunbeam)
Quick StartCanonical's snap-based OpenStack — the successor to MicroStack. Single-command bring-up on Ubuntu, backed by MicroK8s underneath.
$ sudo snap install openstack --channel 2024.1/stable$ sunbeam prepare-node-script | bash -x$ sunbeam cluster bootstrapRDO / Packstack (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora)
ProductionRDO packages OpenStack for the RHEL/CentOS/Fedora ecosystem. Packstack gives a quick all-in-one or multi-node install on top of those packages.
$ sudo dnf install -y centos-release-openstack-caracal$ sudo dnf install -y openstack-packstack$ packstack --allinoneUbuntu Cloud Archive
PackagesCanonical's rolling package archive that backports the latest OpenStack releases onto Ubuntu LTS — install individual OpenStack services with apt.
$ sudo add-apt-repository cloud-archive:caracal$ sudo apt update$ sudo apt install nova-computeNeed OpenStack deployed and managed for you?
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