# ansible + openstack heat?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-openstack-heat/15708>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 18, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-openstack-heat/15708 "2014-07-18T18:54:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guy\_Matz1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5e925/32.png) [@Guy\_Matz1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Guy_Matz1)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-openstack-heat/15708/1 "2014-07-18T18:54:33Z")

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Has anyone gotten ansible to provision a rackspace stack using a Heat template?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-openstack-heat/15708/2 "2014-07-18T20:13:52Z")

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Rackspace is OpenStack underneath, but Rackspace hides all the complexity of OpenStack from you (which is also nice). So people typically use the “rackspace” cloud modules in Ansible instead.

Using Ansible, you do not need to use heat at all with Rackspace, you can also use our OpenStack modules on a raw OpenStack cloud (not Rackspace) directly as well.

[http://docs.ansible.com/list\_of\_cloud\_modules.html](http://docs.ansible.com/list_of_cloud_modules.html)

[http://docs.ansible.com/guide\_rax.html](http://docs.ansible.com/guide_rax.html) (there is no OpenStack specific guide yet)

That being said, you might be using Heat in some OpenStack cases to call back into something to trigger ansible to run things on scale-up events, since it’s kind of event driven.