omni/nova

Setup

Prerequesites

1. Working green field OpenStack deployment (code currently based out of stable/liberty)
2. The virtualenv used by nova should have Amazon boto package installed

Components

• Nova driver: Handles instance creation, power operations and snapshotting an instance to AMI

Instructions

1. Copy the nova/ec2 directory to /nova/nova/virt/
2. Update the configuration files -
   1. edit /etc/nova/nova.conf

   [DEFAULT]
   compute_driver = ec2.EC2Driver
   
   [AWS]
   secret_key = <your aws secret access key>
   access_key = <your aws access key>
   region_name = <was region to use>
   

3. Restart the nova compute services