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Doug Hellmann c16cd04cf6 Fix rst formatting and cross-references

blueprint sphinx-doc-cleanup
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- Fix formatting and markup issues that produce error messages
- Update TOC lists for missing/new files
- Fix a few links
- Update instructions with dependencies for building the documentation
- Updated base on review comments from oubiwann to fix trailing whitespace in modified files

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2012-03-06 08:08:25 -05:00

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Welcome to Nova's documentation!

Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller, the main part of an IaaS system. Individuals and organizations can use Nova to host and manage their own cloud computing systems. Nova originated as a project out of NASA Ames Research Laboratory.

Nova is written with the following design guidelines in mind:

Component based architecture: Quickly add new behaviors
Highly available: Scale to very serious workloads
Fault-Tolerant: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
Recoverable: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
Open Standards: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api
API Compatibility: Nova strives to provide API-compatible with popular systems like Amazon EC2

This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source tree. Additional draft and project documentation on Nova and other components of OpenStack can be found on the OpenStack wiki. Cloud administrators, refer to docs.openstack.org.

Also see the community page for other ways to interact with the community.

Key Concepts

cloud101 nova.concepts service.architecture object.model runnova/index

Developer Docs

quickstart devref/index community

API Extensions

api_ext/index

Outstanding Documentation Tasks

Indices and tables

genindex
modindex
search

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