diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 58c1f453..e3fc213e 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ nova_ceilometer_enabled: "{{ (groups['ceilometer_all'] is defined) and (groups['
 # Enable/Disable nova versioned notification
 nova_versioned_notification_enabled: False
 
-nova_memcached_servers: "{{ memcached_servers }}"
+# Caching
+nova_cache_servers: "{{ nova_memcached_servers | default(memcached_servers) }}"
+nova_cache_backend: "{{ openstack_cache_backend | default('oslo_cache.memcache_pool') }}"
+nova_cache_backend_map: "{{ openstack_cache_backend_map | default(_nova_cache_backend_map) }}"
 
 ## Verbosity Options
 debug: False
@@ -496,8 +499,7 @@ nova_pip_packages:
   - "git+{{ nova_git_repo }}@{{ nova_git_install_branch }}#egg=nova"
   - osprofiler
   - PyMySQL
-  - pymemcache
-  - python-memcached
+  - "{{ _nova_cache_backend_package }}"
   - systemd-python
 
 # Specific pip packages provided by the user
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/nova_memcached_servers-6c40d3b1714786bf.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/nova_memcached_servers-6c40d3b1714786bf.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b88d25d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/nova_memcached_servers-6c40d3b1714786bf.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    Variable ``nova_memcached_servers`` has been deprecated and replaced with
+    ``nova_cache_servers`` that defaults to ``memcached_servers``. For
+    backpwards compatability ``nova_memcached_servers`` is still respected
+    but will be removed in future releases.
diff --git a/templates/nova.conf.j2 b/templates/nova.conf.j2
index fa0cf680..f97e19fa 100644
--- a/templates/nova.conf.j2
+++ b/templates/nova.conf.j2
@@ -68,8 +68,10 @@ manager_interval = {{ nova_image_cache_manager_interval }}
 # Cache
 [cache]
 enabled = true
-backend = oslo_cache.memcache_pool
-memcache_servers = {{ nova_memcached_servers }}
+backend = {{ nova_cache_backend }}
+{% if nova_cache_backend in nova_cache_backend_map['dogpile'] %}
+memcache_servers = {{ nova_cache_servers }}
+{% endif %}
 
 
 # Cinder
@@ -194,13 +196,15 @@ service_token_roles_required = {{ nova_service_token_roles_required | bool }}
 service_token_roles = {{ nova_service_token_roles | join(',') }}
 service_type = {{ nova_service_type }}
 
-memcached_servers = {{ memcached_servers }}
+{% if nova_cache_backend in nova_cache_backend_map['dogpile'] %}
+memcached_servers = {{ nova_cache_servers }}
 
 token_cache_time = 300
 
 # if your memcached server is shared, use these settings to avoid cache poisoning
 memcache_security_strategy = ENCRYPT
 memcache_secret_key = {{ memcached_encryption_key }}
+{% endif %}
 
 {% if group_names | intersect(nova_services.keys() | difference('nova-compute') | map('extract', nova_services, 'group') | list) | count > 0 %}
 [database]
diff --git a/vars/main.yml b/vars/main.yml
index 459e67fb..0775b353 100644
--- a/vars/main.yml
+++ b/vars/main.yml
@@ -116,3 +116,23 @@ _qemu_default_conf_dict: |-
 _nova_qemu_conf: "{{ _qemu_default_conf_dict | combine(qemu_conf_dict) }}"
 
 _nova_oslomsg_heartbeat_in_pthread: "{{ (nova_services['nova-compute']['group'] in group_names) | ternary(False, True) }}"
+
+_nova_cache_backend_map:
+  dogpile:
+    - oslo_cache.memcache_pool
+    - dogpile.cache.pymemcache
+    - dogpile.cache.memcached
+    - dogpile.cache.bmemcached
+  mongo:
+    - oslo_cache.mongo
+  etcd3gw:
+    - oslo_cache.etcd3gw
+
+_nova_cache_backend_package: |-
+    {% set oslo = namespace(backend='dogpile') %}
+    {% for key, value in _nova_cache_backend_map.items() %}
+    {%   if nova_cache_backend in value %}
+    {%     set oslo.backend = key %}
+    {%-   endif %}
+    {%- endfor %}
+    oslo.cache[{{ oslo.backend }}]