Chapter 5. Nova – OpenStack Compute

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to OpenStack Compute
  • Adding a compute host using OpenStack-Ansible
  • Suspending a host for maintenance
  • Configuring Nova Scheduler to use host aggregates
  • Creating a host aggregate
  • Adding a compute host to a host aggregate
  • Removing a compute host from a host aggregate
  • Adding metadata to a host aggregate
  • Deleting a host aggregate
  • Creating an Availability Zone
  • Booting an instance into an Availability Zone
  • Removing an Availability Zone
  • Creating a flavor
  • Deleting a flavor
  • Setting CPU limits for a flavor
  • Setting IOPS limits for a flavor
  • Booting an instance
  • Stopping an instance
  • Deleting an instance
  • Live migration
  • Snapshotting an instance
  • Booting an instance from a snapshot ...

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