=================== Compute node design =================== .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 3 design-compute/design-compute-arch design-compute/design-compute-cpu design-compute/design-compute-hypervisor design-compute/design-compute-hardware design-compute/design-compute-overcommit design-compute/design-compute-storage design-compute/design-compute-networking design-compute/design-compute-logging This section describes some of the choices you need to consider when designing and building your compute nodes. Compute nodes form the resource core of the OpenStack Compute cloud, providing the processing, memory, network and storage resources to run instances.