diff --git a/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-options-reference.xml b/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-options-reference.xml
index bed71e3b2d..8172089d85 100644
--- a/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-options-reference.xml
+++ b/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-options-reference.xml
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version= "1.0" encoding= "UTF-8"?>
-<section xml:id="list-of-compute-config-options"
+<section xml:id="section-compute-config-samples"
     xmlns= "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
     xmlns:xi= "http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     xmlns:xlink= "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version= "5.0">
-    <title>Configuration options</title>
+    <title>Compute sample configuration files</title>
+    <section xml:id="list-of-compute-config-options">
+    <title>nova.conf - configuration options</title>
     <para>For a complete list of all available configuration options for each OpenStack Compute service, run bin/nova-&lt;servicename&gt; --help.</para>
     <xi:include href="../../common/tables/nova-api.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../../common/tables/nova-authentication.xml"/>
@@ -51,4 +53,6 @@
     <xi:include href="../../common/tables/nova-xvpnvncproxy.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../../common/tables/nova-zeromq.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="../../common/tables/nova-zookeeper.xml"/>
+    </section>
+  <xi:include href="section_compute-sample-configuration-files.xml"/>
 </section>
diff --git a/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-sample-configuration-files.xml b/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-sample-configuration-files.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96b011eaeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-sample-configuration-files.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
+    xml:id="compute-sample-configuration-files">
+    <title>Additional sample configuration files</title>
+    <para>Files in this section can be found in <systemitem>/etc/nova</systemitem>.</para>
+    <section xml:id="section_nova-api-paste.ini">
+        <title>api-paste.ini</title>
+        <para>The Compute Service stores its API configuration settings in the
+            <filename>api-paste.ini</filename> file.</para>
+        <programlisting language="ini">
+                <xi:include parse="text" href="http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/plain/etc/nova/api-paste.ini"/>
+        </programlisting>
+    </section>
+    <section xml:id="section_nova-policy.json">
+        <title>policy.json</title>
+        <para>The <filename>policy.json</filename> file defines additional access controls that apply to the Compute Service.</para>
+        <programlisting language="json">
+                <xi:include parse="text" href="http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/plain/etc/nova/policy.json"/>
+        </programlisting>
+    </section>
+    <section xml:id="section_nova-rootwrap.conf">
+        <title>rootwrap.conf</title>
+        <para>The <filename>rootwrap.conf</filename> file defines configuration
+            values used by the rootwrap script when the Compute Service
+            needs to escalate its privileges to those of the root user.</para>
+        <programlisting language="ini">
+                <xi:include parse="text" href="http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/plain/etc/nova/rootwrap.conf"/>
+        </programlisting>
+    </section>
+</section>
+