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The contibutor document had subpages section on the top, but it was weird (especially in pdf) that subpages were before sections of "overview" and "big picture". This patch sorts it out creating a new section of "architecture". Change-Id: Iea2307774e7f6f778c72f5b07b526fad18dc4cc5
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Placement Developer Notes
The Nova project introduced the placement service as part of the Newton release, and it was extracted to its own repository in the Stein release. The service provides an HTTP API to manage inventories of different classes of resources, such as disk or virtual cpus, made available by entities called resource providers. Information provided through the placement API is intended to enable more effective accounting of resources in an OpenStack deployment and better scheduling of various entities in the cloud.
The document serves to explain the architecture of the system and to
provide some guidance on how to maintain and extend the code. For more
detail on why the system was created and how it does its job see /index. For some insight into
the longer term goals of the system see goals and vision-reflection.
contributing architecture api-ref-guideline goals quick-dev testing vision-reflection