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This patch: - updates the links for Newton in the /common folder - removes a commented non-publishing command for Debian Install guide from publishdocs.sh. (If the Guide is still not ready for Newton, we will re-add this command back and remove the guide from www/project-install-guide/newton/index.html) - removes old link for API reference and uses API Guide instead. Change-Id: Ib7be38419deadaa8ff70256e12111e1c9a7fe143
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Compute service overview
Use OpenStack Compute to host and manage cloud computing systems.
OpenStack Compute is a major part of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS)
system. The main modules are implemented in Python.
OpenStack Compute interacts with OpenStack Identity for authentication; OpenStack Image service for disk and server images; and OpenStack dashboard for the user and administrative interface. Image access is limited by projects, and by users; quotas are limited per project (the number of instances, for example). OpenStack Compute can scale horizontally on standard hardware, and download images to launch instances.
OpenStack Compute consists of the following areas and their components:
nova-api
service-
Accepts and responds to end user compute API calls. The service supports the OpenStack Compute API, the Amazon EC2 API, and a special Admin API for privileged users to perform administrative actions. It enforces some policies and initiates most orchestration activities, such as running an instance.
nova-api-metadata
service-
Accepts metadata requests from instances. The
nova-api-metadata
service is generally used when you run in multi-host mode withnova-network
installations. For details, see Metadata service in the OpenStack Administrator Guide. nova-compute
service-
A worker daemon that creates and terminates virtual machine instances through hypervisor APIs. For example:
- XenAPI for XenServer/XCP
- libvirt for KVM or QEMU
- VMwareAPI for VMware
Processing is fairly complex. Basically, the daemon accepts actions from the queue and performs a series of system commands such as launching a KVM instance and updating its state in the database.
nova-scheduler
service-
Takes a virtual machine instance request from the queue and determines on which compute server host it runs.
nova-conductor
module-
Mediates interactions between the
nova-compute
service and the database. It eliminates direct accesses to the cloud database made by thenova-compute
service. Thenova-conductor
module scales horizontally. However, do not deploy it on nodes where thenova-compute
service runs. For more information, see Configuration Reference Guide. nova-cert
module-
A server daemon that serves the Nova Cert service for X509 certificates. Used to generate certificates for
euca-bundle-image
. Only needed for the EC2 API. nova-network worker
daemon-
Similar to the
nova-compute
service, accepts networking tasks from the queue and manipulates the network. Performs tasks such as setting up bridging interfaces or changing IPtables rules. nova-consoleauth
daemon-
Authorizes tokens for users that console proxies provide. See
nova-novncproxy
andnova-xvpvncproxy
. This service must be running for console proxies to work. You can run proxies of either type against a single nova-consoleauth service in a cluster configuration. For information, see About nova-consoleauth. nova-novncproxy
daemon-
Provides a proxy for accessing running instances through a VNC connection. Supports browser-based novnc clients.
nova-spicehtml5proxy
daemon-
Provides a proxy for accessing running instances through a SPICE connection. Supports browser-based HTML5 client.
nova-xvpvncproxy
daemon-
Provides a proxy for accessing running instances through a VNC connection. Supports an OpenStack-specific Java client.
nova-cert
daemon-
x509 certificates.
nova
client-
Enables users to submit commands as a tenant administrator or end user.
- The queue
-
A central hub for passing messages between daemons. Usually implemented with RabbitMQ, also can be implemented with another AMQP message queue, such as ZeroMQ.
- SQL database
-
Stores most build-time and run-time states for a cloud infrastructure, including:
- Available instance types
- Instances in use
- Available networks
- Projects
Theoretically, OpenStack Compute can support any database that SQL-Alchemy supports. Common databases are SQLite3 for test and development work, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.