Rackspace Private Cloud Software v 3.0 introduces OpenCenter, a deployment and management framework that enables users to quickly deploy an OpenStack cluster configured according to the recommendations of Rackspace OpenStack specialists. OpenCenter uses Chef to deploy Rackspace Private Cloud Software cookbooks.

OpenCenter enables cloud administrators to manage the architecture of their OpenStack private cloud through a GUI dashboard, command line interface (CLI), or API. With OpenCenter, you can perform the following tasks:

• Create a Chef server that will manage multiple OpenStack nodes.
• Deploy controller nodes and hypervisors directly to bare metal servers.
• Deploy and manage an OpenStack cluster in an environment.
• Enable high availability.

You can deploy Rackspace Private Cloud Software on Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 6.3, or RHEL 6.3 or 6.4. The installation is performed by means of RPM and Debian packages.