What's a 'topic' in nova?

Asked by Rohit Karajgi

This is a jargon question for Nova. I have seen certain flags such as network_topic, compute_topic, etc. What exactly is a topic and what values would it hold? What context are topics used in?

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Best Vish Ishaya (vishvananda) said :
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A topic represents an individual message queue that components can post to or read from. By default each nova-xxx worker that starts a nova/service.py:Service will listen on a topic based on their binary name and one based on binary name and host name, so nova-volume will listen for messages on
'volume' and 'volume.$HOSTNAME'
To send a message to a volume worker you send the message to one of those topics.

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On Jul 19, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Rohit Karajgi wrote:

> New question #165321 on OpenStack Compute (nova):
> https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/165321
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> This is a jargon question for Nova. I have seen certain flags such as network_topic, compute_topic, etc. What exactly is a topic and what values would it hold? What context are topics used in?
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Rohit Karajgi (rohitk) said :
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Alright! Thanks Vish!

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Rohit Karajgi (rohitk) said :
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Thanks Vish Ishaya, that solved my question.