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A. MarkelovCertified OpenStack Administrator Study Guide Certification Study Companion Serieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8804-7_7

7. OpenStack Compute

Andrey Markelov1  
(1)
Stockholm, Sweden
 

This chapter covers 35% of the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam requirements. OpenStack Compute is the heart of OpenStack, so you must study this chapter to pass the exam without excuses.

Nova’s Architecture and Components

Nova, OpenStack’s compute service, is the heart of the OpenStack cloud. Its main goal is to manage basic virtual machines functions like creating, starting, stopping, and so on. Let’s look at the architecture and general parts of Nova. As ...

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