Deploying OpenStack: Learning Environments (Manual Setup) contains a series of chapters that describe how to manually deploy each OpenStack component. However, the settings provided by these chapters are not necessarily suitable for a production environment.

Deploying OpenStack: Proof-of-Concept Environments (PackStack) describes how to quickly deploy a demonstration version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform using PackStack. This installation tool is ideal for installing a proof-of-concept OpenStack deployment, typically for evaluation purposes.