So I’m late to the OpenStack party but I have been playing with VirtualBox, KVM, ESXi, qemu, and other virtualization technologies for a while now and have a few of each running here and there. I primarily live in the development side of the house, but with the proliferation of agile, continuous integration, and now everyone moving to the continuous delivery type model being able to stand up infrastructure is the next major bottleneck for most development teams.

Reference:

• github.com - openstack-dev/devstack
• openstack.org - Early Release of the OpenStack Operators Guide eBook
• devstack.org - All-In-One: Dedicated Hardware
• StackGeek - Taking OpenStack for a Spin
• OpenStack Multi-Node DevStack Nova Network Tutuorial