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OpenStack Nova provides a cloud computing fabric controller, supporting a wide variety of compute technologies, including: libvirt (KVM, Xen, LXC and more), VMware and OpenStack Ironic.
Use the following resources to learn more.
To learn how to use Nova's API, consult the documentation available online at:
Compute API Guide <https://docs.openstack.org/api-guide/compute/>__Compute API Reference <https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/compute/>__For more information on OpenStack APIs, SDKs and CLIs in general, refer to:
OpenStack for App Developers <https://www.openstack.org/appdev/>__Development resources for OpenStack clouds <https://developer.openstack.org/>__To learn how to deploy and configure OpenStack Nova, consult the documentation available online at:
OpenStack Nova <https://docs.openstack.org/nova/>__In the unfortunate event that bugs are discovered, they should be reported to the appropriate bug tracker. If you obtained the software from a 3rd party operating system vendor, it is often wise to use their own bug tracker for reporting problems. In all other cases use the master OpenStack bug tracker, available at:
Bug Tracker <https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova>__For information on how to contribute to Nova, please see the contents of the CONTRIBUTING.rst.
Any new code must follow the development guidelines detailed in the HACKING.rst file, and pass all unit tests.
To understand better the processes that the team is using, please refer to the
Process document <https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/contributor/process.html>__.
Further developer focused documentation is available at:
Official Nova Documentation <https://docs.openstack.org/nova/>__Official Client Documentation <https://docs.openstack.org/python-novaclient/>__During each Summit_ and Project Team Gathering_, we agree on what the whole
community wants to focus on for the upcoming release. The plans for nova can
be found at:
Nova Specs <http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/>__.. _Summit: https://www.openstack.org/summit/ .. _Project Team Gathering: https://www.openstack.org/ptg/
FAQs
Cloud computing fabric controller
We found that nova demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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