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Cacao Glossary¶

This glossary defines common terms you might see in Cacao

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A¶

Application credential
An application credential, specifically an Openstack application credential, is a credential that allows a user to login to an Openstack cloud without the user’s password.

C¶

Continuous analysis
Continuous analysis is the ability to execute workflows triggered by events, such as data changes or code changes

D¶

Deployment
A deployment is one or more resources, such as instances, created on one or more clouds.

I¶

Instance
An instance is another name for a virtual machine or server (in Openstack)

M¶

Meta cloud orchestration
The ability to provision resources in different types of clouds

P¶

Provider
A provider is another name for cloud or cloud provider, where cloud resources are created

R¶

Resource
A resource or cloud resource is a general term used for any object – instance, volume, container – in a cloud

T¶

Template
A template refers to a set of instructions or description of what cloud resources to create on a cloud. A template in Cacao requires a template engine to process the hte instructions or description. Currently, Cacao’s primary templates for OpenStack use Hashicorp Terraform.

W¶

Workspace
A workspace is a way to group one or more deployments.