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nova-api
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Server for the OpenStack Compute APIs
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:Author: openstack@lists.openstack.org
:Copyright: OpenStack Foundation
:Manual section: 1
:Manual group: cloud computing

Synopsis
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  nova-api  [options]

Description
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:program:`nova-api` is a server daemon that serves the metadata and compute
APIs in separate greenthreads.

Options
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**General options**

Files
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* ``/etc/nova/nova.conf``
* ``/etc/nova/api-paste.ini``
* ``/etc/nova/policy.json``
* ``/etc/nova/rootwrap.conf``
* ``/etc/nova/rootwrap.d/``

See Also
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* :nova-doc:`OpenStack Nova <>`
* :nova-doc:`Using WSGI with Nova <user/wsgi.html>`

Bugs
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* Nova bugs are managed at `Launchpad <https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova>`__