diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d71b0a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+require 'vagrant'
+
+env=Vagrant::Environment.new(:cwd => File.dirname(__FILE__))
+# this captures the regular output to stdout
+env.ui = Vagrant::UI::Shell.new(env, Thor::Base.shell.new)
+env.load!
+
+# all of the instance to build out for multi-node
+instances = [
+  :db,
+  :rabbitmq,
+  :glance,
+  :controller,
+  :compute
+]
+
+namespace :build do
+  desc 'build out 5 node openstack cluster'
+  task :multi do
+    instance.each do |instance|
+      build(instance, env)
+    end
+  end
+  desc 'build out openstack on one node'
+  task :all do
+    build(:all, env)
+  end
+end
+
+# bring vagrant vm with image name up
+def build(instance, env)
+  unless vm = env.vms[instance]
+    puts "invalid VM: #{instance}"
+  else
+    if vm.created?
+      puts "VM: #{instance} was already created"
+    else
+      # be very fault tolerant :)
+      begin
+        # this will always fail
+        vm.up(:provision => true)
+      rescue Exception => e
+        puts e.class
+        puts e
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+namespace :test do
+  desc 'test multi-node installation'
+  task :multi do
+    {:glance => ['sudo /vagrant/ext/glance.sh'],
+      :controller => ['sudo /vagrant/ext/nova.sh'],
+    }.each do |instance, commands|
+      test(instance, commands, env)
+    end
+  end
+  desc 'test single node installation'
+  task :all do
+    test(:all, ['sudo /vagrant/ext/glance.sh', 'sudo /vagrant/ext/nova.sh'], env)
+  end
+end
+
+def test(instance, commands, env)
+  unless vm = env.vms[instance]
+    puts "invalid VM: #{instance}"
+  else
+    puts "testing :#{instance}"
+    vm.ssh.execute do |ssh|
+      commands.each do |c|
+        #puts ssh.methods - Object.methods
+        puts ssh.exec!(c)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 74468c0..8bc41c5 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
     pm.vm.forward_port('ssh', 22, ssh_forward, :auto => true)
     # hard-coding this b/c it is important
     pm.vm.network("#{net_base}.10")
-    pm.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
-      puppet.manifest_file = "master.pp"
-      puppet.options = ["--certname","puppetmaster", '--modulepath', '/vagrant/modules']
-    end
+    #pm.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
+    #  puppet.manifest_file = "master.pp"
+    #  puppet.options = ["--certname","puppetmaster", '--modulepath', '/vagrant/modules']
+    #end
   end
 
   config.vm.define :all do |all|