Deploy OpenStack in 15 Minutes with Puppet and Packstack

Think it’s impossible to stand up an OpenStack cloud in 15 minutes? If you’re the betting kind, Red Hat software engineer, Derek Higgins, is ready to take your money. Derek created Packstack, an installation utility that uses Puppet modules to deploy OpenStack in three easy steps. Not convinced? Join Derek Higgins, Cody Herridges, and Chris Hoge for a free webinar on Tuesday, July 30 at 11am PDT to see a live demo of Packstack. Topics include:

• An overview of RDO (RDO is a freely-available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and their derivatives)
• How Packstack uses Puppet to simplify the deployment of OpenStack
• An overview of Puppet Labs’ OpenStack modules
• Live demo of Packstack
• Live Q&A

Interested in learning more about OpenStack? Some of the foremost authorities on OpenStack will be speaking at and attending PuppetConf. Register now to get discounted pricing and get a chance to hang out with your fellow OpenStack practitioners. Here's a list of OpenStack talks at PuppetConf:

• Making a robust installer for Linux server applications with Puppet Modules
  Derek Higgins, Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer
• Using puppet for Deploying Hyper-V OpenStack Compute Nodes
  Peter Pouliot, Microsoft, Sr. SDET
• A One Stop Solution for Puppet and Openstack
  Daniel Lobato, CERN, Software Engineer
• Application Automation on OpenStack
  Robert Starmer, Cisco Systems, Inc., Principle Cloud Architect
• Get Started with Openstack on Puppet Enterprise (hands-on)
  Cody Herriges, Puppet Labs, Integration Engineer and Chris Hoge, Puppet Labs, Senior Software Engineer, OpenStack

Learn More

• Sign up for our free webinar: Deploy OpenStack in 15 Minutes with Puppet and Packstack
• Register now for PuppetConf to get discounted pricing
• Puppet Labs’ OpenStack solutions
• Join the OpenStack User Group Poland virtual meetup: Thursday, August 8, 2013 with Chris Hoge