Stateless Hypervisors at Scale, We ll Do It Live!
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 01/05/2016

In this presentation we will introduce a method of booting Nova hypervisors over the network into a stateless live booted operating system. By using a live operating system, we separate the stateless operating system running in RAM from the Nova configuration and instance data which is persistent on disk. Because the OS is an image, it's easier to jump across versions as you can load the latest version of the OS by either doing a reboot or a kexec. It also helps maintain consistency and ensures