This is part two of a series about the server scheduler in OpenStack Nova. See part one.

Warning: This document describes code that is (as of December 2015) in development. Some of it is not yet released. Assuming everything goes well the full RequestObject will be available as part of …

As of late 2015 the scheduler part of Nova (the part of OpenStack that manages compute resources) is responsible for determining on which compute nodes a set of VMs (or other compute resources) will be placed when an agent (human or otherwise) requests a set of servers.

In the future …

There has been a lot of thinking recently about the next steps for gabbi. The ideas being considered are mostly associated with making gabbi more flexible and more extensible and will introduce some backwards incompatible features. Thus there will need to be a version 2.0.

When gabbi was born …

Gabbi 1.7.0 has been released with a new feature for handling URLs and request methods. Based on feedback during a sneak preview at PyconUK 2015, people are going to like it.

The original way to express a request in a gabbi test looked like this:

tests:
    - name: get …