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Welcome to nova's documentation!
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Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller (the main part of an IaaS system) built to match the popular AWS EC2 and S3 APIs. 
It is written in Python, using the Tornado and Twisted frameworks, and relies on the standard AMQP messaging protocol, 
and the Redis distributed KVS.
Nova is intended to be easy to extend, and adapt. For example, it currently uses 
an LDAP server for users and groups, but also includes a fake LDAP server,
that stores data in Redis. It has extensive test coverage, and uses the 
Sphinx toolkit (the same as Python itself) for code and user documentation.
While Nova is currently in Beta use within several organizations, the codebase
is very much under active development - there are bugs!

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
                   
   getting.started  
   architecture
   network      
   storage
   auth  
   compute
   endpoint
   nova
   fakes
   binaries
   todo

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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`