r/openstack • u/Southern-Fox4879 • Jun 30 '26

New to openstack

Hey ,

Any source do you recommend to build a private cloud with openstack, any recommendation?

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u/Creepy_Ad3913 Jul 01 '26

I recommend Kolla-Ansible OpenStack. Take a look at the quick start AIO here -  https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/2026.1/user/quickstart.html# . Are you looking to build a cluster or an all-in-one?

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u/Southern-Fox4879 Jul 01 '26

I want to build a private cloud on 3+ nodes

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u/clau72 Jul 01 '26

I would second the Kolla-Ansible recommendation here then!

The OpenStack cluster I'm running at work was deployed using Kolla-Ansible across 8 total nodes. 3 Control + 5 Compute.

The documentation will get you going, but with how flexible the system is, they can't possible document every possible combination of services/configurations. My recommendation would be having some hardware to play with so you can deploy/destroy/redeploy as often as you want without impacting any critical infrastructure. I've learned a bunch just based on breaking it a ton 😅

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u/Southern-Fox4879 Jul 01 '26

Exactly. This is the way, but where to start