OpenStack Compute – Compute Capacity and Flavors

“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As a private cloud provider, typical OpenStack IaaS services are the building blocks of its offering to end users. At the heart of the IaaS offerings is the compute service that runs and manages the workload life cycle in different facets. The OpenStack Foundation has committed to enlarging the scope of the OpenStack ecosystem and exposing new services by tailoring the Nova service in different ways. Additional new trending projects such as managed elastic data processing (code-named Sahara), managed databases (code-named Trove), and a container application catalog (code-named Murano) are examples of services that are offered on top of the Nova service.

As a cloud operator, having a solid understanding of the compute farm capabilities and the different segregation methods within the OpenStack...