openstack-manuals/doc/admin-guide-cloud-rst/source/compute.rst

Compute

The OpenStack Compute service allows you to control an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. It gives you control over instances and networks, and allows you to manage access to the cloud through users and projects.

Compute does not include virtualization software. Instead, it defines drivers that interact with underlying virtualization mechanisms that run on your host operating system, and exposes functionality over a web-based API.

compute_arch.rst compute-images-instances.rst common/support-compute.rst