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OpenStack for Architects - Second Edition
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OpenStack for Architects - Second Edition

by Ben Silverman, Michael Solberg
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Listening to OpenStack

There are two modes of internal communication in the OpenStack system. The first is to GET or POST to the REST API, and the second is to pull and push messages onto the message queue. Each of the services uses a combination of each; when the Nova API gets a request to provision a resource over the REST API, it passes that request along to the compute nodes via the message bus. They send back usage data over the bus, but they use the API to communicate with other services. These two modes of communication are also available for integration. Just as we can provision resources using the REST API, we can track their progress using the message bus.

 

The following code example uses the Kombu library in Python to attach to ...

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