Openstack

Can you describe Nova in detail?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • Used to provision and manage virtual instances
    • It supports Multi-Tenancy in different levels - logging, end-user control, auditing, etc.
    • Highly scalable
    • Authentication can be done using internal system or LDAP
    • Supports multiple types of block storage
    • Tries to be hardware and hypervisor agnostice