openstack-manuals/doc/arch-design/source/design-compute.rst

Compute architecture

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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.