Working with nova-schedulers
When you launch an instance with OpenStack, the job of the nova-schedulers is to determine which Compute Host (hypervisor) the instance will be created on. The scheduler can be configured to make some basic decisions, such as whether or not RAM exists or not to run the instance and whether enough cores are available. It can also be configured to be more complex and make decisions based on environmental factors and metadata, so that instances can be grouped together on hosts or spread across different hosts to ensure a level of stability in the event of a compute host failure.
Getting ready
Ensure that you are logged in to the OpenStack controller node. If you used Vagrant to create this, we can access this with the following ...
Get OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
