Before we start adding Trove in our production environments, let's take a look at various methods that are available to install/deploy the OpenStack environment.
One method that we have already seen in the last chapter is utilizing DevStack scripts, but we also know that it is not fit for a production environment. There are several distributions of OpenStack, which can be downloaded from their repositories.
The most famous distributions for different categories are as follows:
OS distribution: Ubuntu
Installed using aptitude (apt-get) found on Debian systems and provides a repository for each release of OpenStack.
Third-party distribution: Mirantis
Installed and configured using another big-tent project called Fuel. The Trove plugin is available for us to use Fuel to install Trove.
Distribution optimized for Trove: Tesora
The distribution is available only as a DBaaS platform, which means if you have installed this, then you already have Trove.
There are other...