Packstack is an install tool for OpenStack intended for demonstration and proof of concept deployments. The other two installation tools mentioned are intended for longer term installations that need to be managed and maintained and are outside the scope of what we will accomplish in this book. Packstack uses SSH to connect to each of the nodes and invokes a puppet run (specifically a puppet apply) on each of the nodes to install and configure OpenStack.
RDO Quickstart gives instructions to install RDO using Packstack in three simple steps:
Update the system and install the RDO release rpm as follows:
sudo yum update -y sudo yum install -y http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/rdo-release.rpm
Install Packstack as shown in the following command:
sudo yum install -y openstack-packstackRun Packstack as shown in the following command:
sudo packstack --allinone