How to Make A LOT of Devstack with Vagrant

Sometimes you need to make A LOT of devstack instances, and on different providers. That is, some in the cloud, others locally, and then some. At least, I keep finding myself in situations where this happens, so, I made a little Vagrantfile to handle the details for me. Here is the Vagrantfile I use to
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Nesting OpenStack in OpenStack

I heard you liked Cloud, so we put some cloud in your cloud… well, you get where that is going. Basically, nesting OpenStack inside OpenStack has some interesting use cases for development. That is, if you are running DevStack on the Rackspace OpenCloud, or if your project is a bit more sensitive and you are
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Installing Rackspace Private Cloud Distro in Fusion 5

A bit different than the last time around where all manner of things needed to be adjusted to use the Rackspace Private Cloud Dsitro. Specifically, to get going, you need to follow these steps: Download the distro form here. While that take’s it’s sweet time, spend a moment to look over the getting started guides.
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Running Rackspace Private Cloud on ESXi

First Post! Now, with that out of my system, I’ve found that running the just published OpenStack Private Cloud on bare metal to be a bit out of reach for my homelab. That said, I did find that it runs exceedingly well as a nested hypervisor on ESXi (use the tools I’ve got) and all.
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