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I don't think OpenStack is the right comparison to make to Heroku. In the common parlance, OpenStack is infrastructure as a service, while Heroku is platform as a service. Cloud Foundry http://cloudfoundry.com/ and OpenShift https://openshift.redhat.com/app/ are more comparable. They're both open source.

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I think OpenStack, CloudFoundry, ..., are still not what I have in mind, as this solutions are more designed at scale, that is, if you want to provide a PaaS service to third parties or if you are a very large organization. IMHO the missing piece here is something that you can install in just one or a few nodes to start providing easy-to-setup and monitored services, with proven configurations and setups and so forth.

Something like TurnkeyLinux? http://www.turnkeylinux.org/

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