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Add document to replace / obsolete the giant table on https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix This initial draft is a fairly straightforward conversion of that table. Over time, it needs much work to improve the coverage of API operations and and coverage of important configuration information that users will care about. It is using the .ini file syntax in order to record the data in an easily machine parsable format, while remaining human friendly by avoiding the syntax heavy approach of XML / JSON / YAML An extension is registered with sphinx that can convert the .ini file content into docutils content that then gets rendered into the developer docs, linked from the index page Change-Id: I4d3db4bce5737dba30a026a11083a9ea64459cd4
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Copyright 2010-2012 United States Government as represented by the
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Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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All Rights Reserved.
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
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not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
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a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
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WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
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under the License.
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Welcome to Nova's developer documentation!
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==========================================
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Nova is the project name for OpenStack Compute, a cloud computing fabric
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controller, the main part of an IaaS system.
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Individuals and organizations can use Nova to host and manage their own cloud
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computing systems. Nova originated as a project out of NASA Ames Research Laboratory.
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Nova is written with the following design guidelines in mind:
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* **Component based architecture**: Quickly add new behaviors
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* **Highly available**: Scale to very serious workloads
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* **Fault-Tolerant**: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
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* **Recoverable**: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
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* **Open Standards**: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api
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* **API Compatibility**: Nova strives to provide API-compatible with popular systems like Amazon EC2
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This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source
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tree. Additional draft and project documentation on Nova and other components of OpenStack can
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be found on the `OpenStack wiki`_. Cloud administrators, refer to `docs.openstack.org`_.
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.. _`OpenStack wiki`: http://wiki.openstack.org
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.. _`docs.openstack.org`: http://docs.openstack.org
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Developer Docs
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==============
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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devref/index
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man/index
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support-matrix
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API Extensions
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==============
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Go to the `API Complete Reference`_ for information about Compute API extensions.
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.. _`API Complete Reference`: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2-ext.html
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Indices and tables
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==================
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* :ref:`genindex`
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* :ref:`modindex`
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* :ref:`search`
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