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Sunday 10 August 2014

Nova-API

Nova-API


Nova-api accepts and responds to end user compute API calls. It supports OpenStack Compute API, Amazon's EC2 API and a special Admin API (for privileged users to perform administrative actions). It also initiates most of the orchestration activities (such as running an instance) as well as enforces some policy (mostly quota checks). Internally, it handles requests from the user and relays them to the cloud controller.

Nova-API Architecture:

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