Chapter 4. Building Your Cloud Fabric Controller Using Nova
In the previous chapter, we looked at the different types of storage options available in OpenStack and the associated services.
In this chapter, we will set up and configure what is considered to be the heart of the OpenStack system, the cloud computing fabric controller. It defines drivers that work with a variety of virtualization technologies such as Xen and KVM. It is the single, most important component of the system. All that we have set up, and will set up in future chapters, in some form or another will revolve around this central component. In this chapter, we will need a third server, OSComputeNode. The node is set up with Ubuntu 14.04.01 similar to the other nodes and has three ...
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