Configuring Docker as a hypervisor driver for OpenStack
I am assuming that the reader has some exposure to OpenStack for this recipe, as covering it is outside the scope of this book. For more information on OpenStack and its components, please visit http://www.openstack.org/software/.
In OpenStack, Nova supports different hypervisors for computation, such as KVM, XEN, VMware, HyperV, and others. We can provision VMs using these drivers. Using Ironic (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic), you can provision bare metal as well. Nova added support for containers provisioning using Docker in the Havana (https://www.openstack.org/software/havana/) release, but currently, it lives out of the mainline for faster dev cycle. There are plans to merge ...
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