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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
Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`