Openstack

What each of the following does?:

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • nova-api - responsible for managing requests/calls
    • nova-compute - responsible for managing instance lifecycle
    • nova-conductor - Mediates between nova-compute and the database so nova-compute doesn't access it directly
    • nova-cert - Manages X509 certificates for secure communication.
    • nova-consoleauth - Authorizes tokens for users to access instance consoles.
    • nova-scheduler - Determines which compute host an instance should be launched on based on a set of filters and weights.