One of the primary purposes of CloudLabs in Flex is to provide optimized rack level solutions while integrating third-party open source vendor products. With the fast growing adoption of cloud computing, many companies are looking to shift their workloads into the cloud. CloudLabs’ already established engineering and design services allow for an environment where validation and performance testing can be done in a controlled manner on a variety of cloud platforms, including OpenStack. This talk will look at how CloudLabs utilizes open source tools: a Linux provisioning software called Stacki, Ansible, and OpenStack to help the validation process of hardware and rack level solutions for cloud infrastructure.