You can download a script for a standalone install for proof-of-concept, learning, or for development purposes for Ubuntu 11.04 at https://devstack.org. This is not a permanent installation. Install Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty): In order to correctly install all the dependencies, we assume a specific version of Ubuntu to make it as easy as possible. OpenStack works on other flavors of Linux (and some folks even run it on Windows!) We recommend using a minimal install of Ubuntu server in a VM if this is your first time. Download DevStack: git clone git://github.com/cloudbuilders/devstack.git The devstack repo contains a script that installs OpenStack Compute with the Image Service and the Identity Service and OpenStack Object Storage. It offers templates for configuration files plus data scripts. Start the install:cd devstack; ./stack.shIt takes a few minutes, we recommend reading the well-documented script while it is building to learn more about what is going on. You can also install a more permanent deployment using an upstart script after running the devstack script. Once you have tested stack.sh and tailored it to your system, you can convert the installation into upstart services. The additions with this script are the ability to run services like daemons instead of in screens, to store logs in files and offer an automatic start up after a reboot. It works with glance- services, nova- services, novnc, and keystone, but not with neutron or swift as of November 22 2011. Here are the basic steps. Ensure you've run ./stack.sh with all the configuration you need for your systems. Download the upstart scripts: git clone git://github.com/maoy/devstack/tree/upstart.git The devstack repo contains a script that installs OpenStack Compute, the Image Service and the Identity Service and offers templates for configuration files plus data scripts. Run the upstart install script. ./upstart.sh install Now the services are installed. To use them, either reboot to get rid of the services started by stack.sh, and automatically start those services, or do killall screen, then: ./upstart.sh start