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Welcome to Nova's documentation!
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Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller (the main part of an IaaS system).
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It is written in Python and relies on the standard AMQP messaging protocol, uses the Twisted framework,
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and optionally uses the Redis distributed key value store for authorization.
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Nova is intended to be easy to extend and adapt. For example, authentication and authorization
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requests by default use an RDBMS-backed datastore driver. However, there is already support
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for using LDAP backing authentication (slapd) and if you wish to "fake" LDAP, there is a module
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available that uses ReDIS to store authentication information in an LDAP-like backing datastore.
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It has extensive test coverage, and uses the Sphinx toolkit (the same as Python itself) for code
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and developer documentation. Additional documentation is available on the
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'OpenStack wiki <http://wiki.openstack.org>'_.
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While Nova is currently in Beta use within several organizations, the codebase
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is very much under active development - please test it and log bugs!
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Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller, the main part of an IaaS system.
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Individuals and organizations can use Nova to host and manage their own cloud
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computing systems. Nova originated as a project out of NASA Ames Research Laboratory.
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Nova is written with the following design guidelines in mind:
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* **Component based architecture**: Quickly add new behaviors
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* **Highly available**: Scale to very serious workloads
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* **Fault-Tollerant**: Isloated processes avoid cascading failures
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* **Recoverable**: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
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* **Open Standards**: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api
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* **API Compatibility**: Nova strives to provide API-compatible with popular systems like Amazon EC2
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This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source
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tree. Additional documentation on Nova and other components of OpenStack can
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be found on the `OpenStack wiki`_. Also see the :doc:`community` page for
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other ways to interact with the community.
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.. _`OpenStack wiki`: http://wiki.openstack.org
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Administrator's Documentation
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adminguide/single.node.install
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adminguide/multi.node.install
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.. todo:: add swiftadmin
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Outstanding Documentation Tasks
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