1. A method of building a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes, the method comprising: connecting a seed device to a network; initiating, from the seed device, a launching of a cloud computing management configuration, the seed device including a repository of software; installing, from the seed device, software on one of the plurality of computing nodes to run a cloud computing management system; loading the software from one of the plurality of computing nodes onto each of the plurality of nodes; selecting a computing node, from the plurality of computing nodes, to designate as a master node; and controlling operations of the cloud computing management system from the master node.