The API services
In a nutshell, we have already covered the nova-api service in Chapter 1, Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration. It might be important to step forward and learn that nova-api is considered the orchestrator engine component in cloud controller specifications. Without any doubt, nova-api is assembled in the controller node.
The nova-api service may also fulfill more complicated requests by passing messages within other daemons by means of writing to the databases and queuing messages. As this service is based on the endpoint concept where all API queries are initiated, nova-api provides two different APIs using either the OpenStack API or EC2 API. This makes it imperative to decide which API will be used before ...
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