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Hybrid Cloud for Developers
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

by Manoj Hirway
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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NOVA – OpenStack Compute Service

 The OpenStack Compute Service (NOVA) is the core component of OpenStack. It provides the ability to run virtual machines on OpenStack nodes by providing drivers that interact with the underlying virtualization mechanism. The Nova service is capable of interacting with various hypervisors such as KVM, VMware, XEN Server, and so on. By default, the KVM hypervisor is used. The libvirt driver (libvirtd) is used to interact with the KVM hypervisor. 

The NOVA service also interacts with the Identity Service (keystone) for authentication of instances and database access. It fetches the virtual machine images from the Imaging Service (glance) and also interfaces with the dashboard service (horizon) to provide administrative ...

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