Installing and configuring the OpenStack Nova compute service

The OpenStack Compute service, code named Nova, manages a pool of compute resources and the virtual machines running on them. Nova is a suite of services to create and manage the lifecycle of virtual machines. We will use Nova to create, examine, stop, delete, and migrate KVM instances.

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For more information on the various Nova services, refer to: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/.

In this recipe, we are going to install and configure the following Nova components:

• nova-api: This is the service that accepts and responds to user requests through a RESTful API. We will use it when creating, running, stopping, and migrating KVM instances.
• nova-scheduler: This is the service that makes decisions on where to provision instance, based on filters, such as available memory, disk, and CPU resources.
• nova-compute: This is the service that runs on the compute hosts and is responsible for managing the lifecycle of the KVM instance,...