diff --git a/elements/quantum-api/README.md b/elements/quantum-api/README.md
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+Installs Quantum API service from github.
+
diff --git a/elements/quantum-api/first-boot.d/05-quantum-api b/elements/quantum-api/first-boot.d/05-quantum-api
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+set -o xtrace
+
+# upstart script
+cp -f $(dirname $0)/etc_init_quantum-api.conf /etc/init/quantum-api.conf
+
diff --git a/elements/quantum-api/first-boot.d/etc_init_quantum-api.conf b/elements/quantum-api/first-boot.d/etc_init_quantum-api.conf
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+description "OpenStack Quantum service"
+
+# TODO: see if this can be consumed from upstream packaging, instead of being repeated here.
+
+start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
+stop on runlevel [016]
+
+respawn
+
+pre-start script
+  mkdir -p /var/run/quantum
+  chown quantum:root /var/run/quantum
+  mkdir -p /var/lib/quantum
+  chown quantum:root /var/lib/quantum
+  mkdir -p /var/log/quantum
+  chown quantum:root /var/log/quantum
+end script
+
+script
+  exec start-stop-daemon --start --chuid quantum --exec /opt/stack/quantum/bin/quantum-server -- \
+            --config-file /etc/quantum/quantum.conf \
+            --log-file /var/log/quantum/server.log
+end script
diff --git a/elements/quantum-api/install.d/05-quantum-api b/elements/quantum-api/install.d/05-quantum-api
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+set -o xtrace
+
+useradd -G admin -m quantum -s /bin/false
+
+DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install \
+    python-pip git-core python-setuptools python-dev python-lxml python-netaddr \
+    python-pastescript python-pastedeploy python-paste python-sqlalchemy        \
+    python-greenlet python-routes python-simplejson python-webob rabbitmq-server
+
+OS_ROOT=/opt/stack
+mkdir -p $OS_ROOT
+
+# clone source
+QUANTUM_ROOT=$OS_ROOT/quantum
+git clone https://github.com/openstack/quantum.git $QUANTUM_ROOT
+cd $QUANTUM_ROOT
+git checkout master
+
+# pip dependencies
+python setup.py egg_info
+pip install -r quantum.egg-info/requires.txt
+python setup.py install
+cd -
+
+# config
+mkdir -p /etc/quantum
+cp $QUANTUM_ROOT/etc/quantum.conf /etc/quantum
+cp $QUANTUM_ROOT/etc/policy.json /etc/quantum
+cp $QUANTUM_ROOT/etc/api-paste.ini /etc/quantum
+
+# default is 'fake plugin', with which service won't start
+sed -i 's/core_plugin =.*/core_plugin = quantum.plugins.openvswitch.ovs_quantum_plugin.OVSQuantumPluginV2/' /etc/quantum/quantum.conf