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Compute (Nova)
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OpenStack Compute Overview
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- Project name ``Nova``
- Massively scalable, on demand, self service access to compute resources.
- Provides a tenant-facing API for managing the lifecycle of compute resources.
- Provides an abstraction layer on top of the hypervisor.
- Depends on Keystone, Glance, Neutron
- Optionally leverages Cinder
- Accessible through Horizon