Open Stack

On 2014-01-08 23:56:50 -0700 (-0700), Joe Topjian wrote:
[...]
> In the past, we would re-provision the bare-metal servers with a
> fresh OS and then run Puppet to deploy OpenStack, but then we
> realized that we could do everything nested inside an OpenStack
> environment. So the bare-metal hardware is now a separate
> OpenStack environment which allows us to test several different
> projects' OpenStack configurations under one main test cloud.
[...]

Sounds remarkably similar to
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO/TripleOCloud . You might
want to consider joining in that effort, or at least realigning your
methodology to take advantage of the improvements they're adding.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley