OpenStack Nova Mastery

OpenStack Nova Mastery: Designing, Installing, and Running the Cloud Compute Core is a practical and in-depth guide to building, operating, and refining Nova in modern OpenStack environments. It introduces the core concepts behind OpenStack's modular architecture and shows how Nova fits within the broader ecosystem, including Keystone, Glance, Neutron, and Placement. With clear explanations of Nova's role in supporting private, public, hybrid, and edge cloud deployments, the book gives readers the context they need to understand both the platform and the operational demands it serves.

The guide then explores Nova's architecture in detail, walking through the responsibilities of the API, Scheduler, Compute, and supporting services. Readers gain a strong understanding of control plane and data plane design, messaging workflows, state management, failure handling, and scalability considerations. It also covers hypervisor integration, driver abstractions, hardware acceleration, and virtualization options, helping architects and engineers make informed decisions about performance, resilience, and workload fit.

In addition to architecture and design, the book provides hands-on guidance for installing, automating, securing, and maintaining Nova deployments. It includes practical advice on deployment tooling, high availability, troubleshooting, backup and recovery, and compliance-oriented operations for environments governed by standards such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. Whether you are planning a new OpenStack cloud or improving an existing one, this book offers the knowledge and strategies needed to run Nova reliably at scale.