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Copyright 2010-2011 United States Government as represented by the
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Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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All Rights Reserved.
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
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not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
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a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
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WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
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under the License.
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Welcome to Nova's documentation!
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================================
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Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller, the main part of an IaaS system.
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Individuals and organizations can use Nova to host and manage their own cloud
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computing systems. Nova originated as a project out of NASA Ames Research Laboratory.
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Nova is written with the following design guidelines in mind:
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* **Component based architecture**: Quickly add new behaviors
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* **Highly available**: Scale to very serious workloads
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* **Fault-Tolerant**: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
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* **Recoverable**: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
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* **Open Standards**: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api
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* **API Compatibility**: Nova strives to provide API-compatible with popular systems like Amazon EC2
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This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source
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tree. Additional draft and project documentation on Nova and other components of OpenStack can
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be found on the `OpenStack wiki`_. Cloud administrators, refer to `docs.openstack.org`_.
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Also see the :doc:`community` page for other ways to interact with the community.
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.. _`OpenStack wiki`: http://wiki.openstack.org
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.. _`docs.openstack.org`: http://docs.openstack.org
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Key Concepts
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============
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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cloud101
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nova.concepts
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service.architecture
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object.model
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runnova/index
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.. swift.concepts
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.. swift.object.model
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Developer Docs
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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quickstart
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devref/index
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community
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API Extensions
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==============
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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api_ext/index
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Outstanding Documentation Tasks
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===============================
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.. todolist::
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Indices and tables
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==================
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* :ref:`genindex`
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* :ref:`modindex`
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* :ref:`search`
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