Showing posts with label Nova. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nova. Show all posts

OpenStack Crash Course - Nova

Openstack Nova is the equivalent of AWS EC2 instances or Azure VMs.
  • It’s an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering.
  • Provides management and automation of pools of Virtual Machines
  • Bare metal and high-performance computing (HPC) configurations
  • It supports KVM, VMware, and Xen hypervisor virtualization
  • Hyper-V and LXC containerization
  • Python-based with various external libraries: Eventlet for concurrent programming, Kombu for AMQP communication, SQLAlchemy for database access, etc.
  • Designed to scale horizontally on standard hardware with no proprietary hardware or software requirements
  • Inter operable with legacy systems