Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller, the main part of an IaaS system. Individuals and organizations can use Nova to host and manage their own cloud computing systems. Nova originated as a project out of NASA Ames Research Laboratory.
Nova is written with the following design guidelines in mind:
This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source tree. Additional draft and project documentation on Nova and other components of OpenStack can be found on the OpenStack wiki. Cloud administrators, refer to docs.openstack.org.
Also see the Getting Involved page for other ways to interact with the community.
P1 (this is one example of how to use priority syntax) * Document the assumptions about pluggable interfaces (sqlite3 instead of
service.architecture.rst, line 77
P2: image store description
runnova/vncconsole.rst, line 41
add instruction for installing from package
runnova/network.vlan.rst, line 179
need specific Nova configuration added
runnova/network.vlan.rst, line 41
Describe how a public IP address could be associated with a project (a VLAN)
runnova/network.flat.rst, line 60
add flat network mode configuration examples
runnova/managingsecurity.rst, line 21
This doc is vague and just high-level right now. Describe architecture that enables security.
runnova/managing.images.rst, line 21
Put info on managing images here!
rework after iSCSI merge (see ‘Old Docs’) (todd or vish)
document general info about fakes