Creating a sandbox server for running the OpenStack Compute services is very easy using VirtualBox and Vagrant. It allows us to discover and experiment with the OpenStack services.
VirtualBox gives us the ability to spin up virtual machines and networks without affecting the rest of our working environment and is freely available for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. Vagrant allows us to automate this task, meaning we can spend less time creating our test environments and more time using OpenStack. A Vagrant is installable using Ubuntu’s package management. This test environment is being used for the rest of this section.