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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 a collection of one or more resources, such as instances and storage, created in a cloud.

I¶

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

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 a description of what cloud resources to create in a cloud. A template in CACAO requires a template engine to process these instructions. Currently, CACAO only support Hashicorp Terraform templates, including any embedded scripts or code that is supported through Terraform’s local-exec provisioner, such as Ansible.

W¶

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