Nova
Nova is the instance management component. An authenticated user who has access to a Glance image and has created a network for an instance to live on is almost ready to tie all of this together and launch an instance. The last resources that are required are a key pair and a security group. A key pair is simply an SSH key pair. OpenStack will allow you to import your own key pair or generate one to use. When the instance is launched, the public key is placed in the authorized_keys file so that a password-less SSH connection can be made to the running instance.
Before that SSH connection can be made, the security groups have to be opened to allow the connection to be made. A security group is a firewall at the cloud infrastructure layer. The ...
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