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rework index intro to describe nova

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The index previously was written for the developer docs, but this is
more than developer docs now. That also means this is the general
google landing page for people, so a basic "what is nova" is
appropriate.

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License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
under the License.
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Welcome to Nova's developer documentation!
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OpenStack Compute (nova)
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Nova is an OpenStack project designed to provide power massively scalable, on
demand, self service access to compute resources.
What is nova?
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The developer documentation provided here is continually kept up-to-date
based on the latest code, and may not represent the state of the project at
any specific prior release.
Nova is the OpenStack project that provides a way to provision compute
instances (either VMs or Baremetal) on hardware or hypervisors. Nova runs as a
set of daemons on top of existing Linux servers to provide that service.
.. note:: This is documentation for developers, if you are looking for more
general documentation including API, install, operator and user
guides see `docs.openstack.org`_
It requires the following additional OpenStack services for basic function:
.. _`docs.openstack.org`: http://docs.openstack.org
* `Keystone <https://docs.openstack.org/keystone/latest/>`_: This provides
identity and authentication for all OpenSack services.
* `Glance <https://docs.openstack.org/glance/latest/>`_: This provides the
compute image repository. All compute instances launch from glance images.
* `Neutron <https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/>`_: This is
responsible for provisioning the virtual or physical networks that compute
instances connect to on boot.
This documentation is intended to help explain what the Nova developers think
is the current scope of the Nova project, as well as the architectural
decisions we have made in order to support that scope. We also document our
plans for evolving our architecture over time. Finally, we documented our
current development process and policies.
It can also integrate with other services to include: persistent block
storage, encrypted disks, and baremetal compute instances.
For End Users
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