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nova-api-metadata
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Server for the Nova Metadata API
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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-metadata [options]

Description
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:program:`nova-api-metadata` is a server daemon that serves the Nova Metadata
API. This daemon routes database requests via the ``nova-conductor`` service,
so there are some considerations about using this in a
:ref:`multi-cell layout <cells-v2-layout-metadata-api>`.

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 <wsgi.html>`

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