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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 :doc:`community` page for other ways to interact with the community.

.. _`OpenStack wiki`: http://wiki.openstack.org
.. _`docs.openstack.org`: http://docs.openstack.org


Key Concepts
============
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

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

Developer Docs
==============

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   quickstart
   devref/index
   community

API Extensions
==============

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

    api_ext/index

Outstanding Documentation Tasks
===============================

.. todolist::

Indices and tables
==================

* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`

