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+
+============================================
+Configure high availability on compute nodes
+============================================
+
+The `Installation Guide
+<http://docs.openstack.org/juno/install-guide/install/apt/content/ch_nova.html>`
+gives instructions for installing multiple compute nodes.
+To make them highly available,
+you must configure the envirionment
+to include multiple instances of the API
+and other services.
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 ==================================================
 Configuring the compute node for high availability
 ==================================================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   compute-node-ha-api.rst
+