Vanilla OpenStack generally refers to an OpenStack without any special optimization, which is free and open source, and available at https://docs.openstack.org/.
We will look at the step-by-step installation procedure of OpenStack in Chapter 8, Day 8 - Build Your OpenStack after understanding the OpenStack design completely.
As of now, to build our play camp, we will be using the automated, opinionated script to create an OpenStack development environment quickly. There are various options available to build the OpenStack development environment in one go, such as:
There are also plenty of volunteer scripts available online to install OpenStack quickly with one command.
In this chapter, we will be focusing on the DevStack installation to bring up our play camp to get hands-on with the OpenStack cloud.