openstack/nova
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5887
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3230 stars · 2588 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
OpenStack Nova is the compute service of OpenStack, acting as a cloud computing fabric controller that provisions and manages virtual machines, containers, and bare metal across hypervisors like KVM, Xen, VMware, and Ironic. It exposes a REST API for instance lifecycle management and is a core component of private and public OpenStack clouds.
Use cases
- run a private cloud with vm provisioning
- manage compute instances across multiple hypervisors
- schedule and launch vms via a rest api
- provision bare metal nodes with ironic
- build an iaas platform on open source
- automate instance lifecycle in an openstack cloud
When to choose
- you are deploying or operating an OpenStack cloud and need compute management
- you need multi-hypervisor vm and bare-metal provisioning at scale
- you want an open-source alternative to public cloud compute with a standard REST API
When to avoid
- you only need container orchestration rather than vm/bare-metal compute (use Kubernetes)
- you want a lightweight single-node virtualization manager
- you cannot operate the broader OpenStack ecosystem Nova depends on
Facets
service · maturity active
cloud api-framework deployment scheduling cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code python self-hosted cloud openstack compute iaas vm-management libvirt bare-metal cloud-controller virtualization devops linux
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/openstack/nova · fetched 2026-08-28 · b3f1aaf10740
- homepage: https://opendev.org/openstack/nova · fetched 2026-08-29 · e1d38ec4e45a
- site_page: https://opendev.org/openstack/nova/commit/5d0bf4ba3589d729e085c43b7a63b62fb79bf921 · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6c63fdb9dfb8
- site_page: https://opendev.org/openstack/nova/commit/612c36034b8f389fc3ddf18689e8e72d5b897ae8 · fetched 2026-08-29 · e5d3bbebdbd4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| openstack/nova | main | 77 |
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