I recently published a Dell Crowbar overview blog post covering the history of the project, its purpose and a variety of links for more information.  There is also a nice post from last October on this site on Crowbar from Peter Tsai. I wanted to provide a bit more technical detail to help you better understand how you can leverage this open source project.

Crowbar Intro Video and Demonstration of Tool from Rob Hirschfeld:

Crowbar Installation of Hadoop from Rob Hirschfeld and Joey Jablonski:

Crowbar Installation of OpenStack in 10 Minutes from Rob Hirschfeld:

For more information on the various aspects of Crowbar:

• Crowbar Marketing One-Pager - http://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/engineering-docs/en/Documents/crowbar-software-framework-specsheet.pdf
• Crowbar Videos (Users and Developers) - https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar/wiki/Videos
• Crowbar User Guide - https://github.com/dellcloudedge/barclamp-crowbar/raw/master/crowbar_framework/public/crowbar_users_guide.pdf
• Crowbar Mailing List - https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar
• Crowbar Software - https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar