Same here. I'm waiting for clean and nie solution to utilize all spare hardware, I have in my company. It would be great to have simple PaaS running on one machine, it would be awesome to utilize them all. If someone could give me step-by-step instructions / solution how to do this, I would really pay for that (or support open source, if that's the case).

The knife solo page should help with this:

http://www.octohost.io/knife-solo.html

I don't think so. Why would I need vagrant on the server ? ~/octohost-cookbook$ sudo rake knife_solo user=root ip=172.16.90.151 rake aborted! Kitchen::UserError: Vagrant 1.1.0 or higher is not installed. Please download a package from http://downloads.vagrantup.com/.

Checkout CoreOS + Deis

You don't need a cloud. You can deploy it on whatever hardware you have as long as you have an SSH connection:

http://www.octohost.io/knife-solo.html