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