Developer Guide¶
In this section you will find information on Nova’s lower level programming APIs.
Programming HowTos and Tutorials¶
Background Concepts for Nova¶
- Nova System Architecture
- Host Aggregates
- Cells V2
- Threading model
- Virtual Machine States and Transitions
- Internationalization
- Filter Scheduler
- AMQP and Nova
- Hooks
- Upgrades
- Rest API Policy Enforcement
- Problems with current system
- Future of policy enforcement
- Enforcement policy at REST API layer
- Removes hard-code permission checks
- Port policy.d from oslo-incubator into nova
- Use different prefix in policy rule name for EC2/V2/V2.1 API
- Group the policy rules into different policy files
- Add separated rule for each API in extension
- Enable action level rule override extension level rule
- Existed Nova API being restricted