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Open edX Platform Installation Options
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You can install the Open edX Platform in one of the following three ways.

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Devstack
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The edX Developer Stack, known as **Devstack**, is a Vagrant instance designed
for local development.

Devstack is in the `edx configuration repository`_ on GitHub.

This guide includes the following sections about Devstack:

* :ref:`Installing the edX Developer Stack`

* :ref:`Running the edX Developer Stack`
  
Additional sections are planned for future versions of this guide.

See the `edx configuration repository wiki`_ for information from
edX and the Open edX community about Devstack and other installation and
configuration options. This wiki contains two pages with more information about Devstack:

* `Devstack wiki`_
* `Developing on Devstack`_


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edX Production Stack
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The edX Production Stack, known as **Fullstack**, is a Vagrant instance designed
for deploying all edX services on a single server.

Fullstack is in the `edx configuration repository`_ on GitHub.
  
This guide includes :ref:`Installing the edX Production Stack`.

See the `edx configuration repository wiki`_ for information from edX and the
Open edX community on Fullstack and other installation and configuration
options.

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Ubuntu 12.04 64 
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You can install the edX Production Stack on a single Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit server.

Ubuntu information is planned for future versions of this guide.

You can see the `edx configuration repository wiki`_ for information from edX
and the Open edX community about Ubuntu and other installation and configuration
options.