The compute service in Nova is considered to be the core component of OpenStack. Understanding how to scale out the workload among several identical compute nodes might require to briefly revisit the building blocks of Nova:
- nova-compute: This runs on the compute node as described in Chapter 1, Inflating the OpenStack Setup. It is responsible for communicating with the hypervisors. Nova-compute interacts with each hypervisor by means of drivers. It creates compute resources by picking up requests from the message queue.
- nova-scheduler: This runs on the cloud controller as described in Chapter 1, Inflating the OpenStack Setup. It is responsible for finding the right placement (physical server) of the initiated request to create a VM. The request will be left in the message queue along with additional information regarding the server information where...
