Airship Glossary of Terms¶
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Airship:
A collection of interoperable and loosely coupled open source tools that Provide for automated cloud provisioning and life cycle managemente in a completely Declarative and predictable way. The focus of this project is the implementation of a declarative platform to introduce openstack on kubernets, and the lifecycle Management of the resulting cloud.
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Container orchestration platform:
set of tools that any organization that operates at scale will need.
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Kubernetes:
An open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management.
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Lifecycle management:
The process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from inception, through engineering design and manufacture, to service and disposal of manufactured products.
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Network function virtualization infrastructure:
Network architecture concept that uses the technologies of IT virtualization to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may connect, or chain together, to create communication services.
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Openstack ironic (OpenStack bare metal provisioning):
An integrated OpenStack program which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova baremetal driver.
Orchestration:
Automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and software.
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Software defined networking (sdn):
Software-defined networking technology is an approach to network management that enables dynamic, programmatically efficient network configuration in order to improve network performance and monitoring making it more like cloud computing than traditional network management.