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Welcome to Nova's developer documentation!
==========================================

Nova is an OpenStack project designed to provide power massively scalable, on
demand, self service access to compute resources.

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.

.. 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`_

.. _`docs.openstack.org`: https://docs.openstack.org

Compute API References
======================


* `v2.1 (CURRENT)`_
* `v2 (SUPPORTED)`_ and `v2 extensions (SUPPORTED)`_ (Will be deprecated in
  the near future.)

API Microversion History:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   api_microversion_history



Local copy of v2 docs:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   v2/index


.. _`v2.1 (CURRENT)`: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2.1.html
.. _`v2 (SUPPORTED)`: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2.html
.. _`v2 extensions (SUPPORTED)`: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2-ext.html



Hypervisor Support Matrix
=========================

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   support-matrix

Developer Guide
===============

Introduction
-------------

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   architecture
   project_scope

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   development.environment


APIs Development
----------------
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   addmethod.openstackapi
   api_plugins
   api_microversion_dev
   policy_enforcement
   stable_api

Concepts
---------
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   aggregates
   cells
   threading
   vmstates
   i18n
   filter_scheduler
   rpc
   hooks
   upgrade

Development policies
--------------------
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   blueprints
   policies

Advanced testing and guides
----------------------------

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1

    gmr
    testing/libvirt-numa
    testing/serial-console

Man Pages
----------

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   man/index

Module Reference
----------------
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   services

Indices and tables
==================

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