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<dt id="term-6to4">6to4</dt>
<dd>A mechanism that allows IPv6 packets to be transmitted
over an IPv4 network, providing a strategy for migrating to
IPv6.</dd>
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<dt id="term-absolute-limit">absolute limit</dt>
<dd>Impassable limits for guest VMs. Settings include total RAM
size, maximum number of vCPUs, and maximum disk size.</dd>
<dt id="term-access-control-list-acl">access control list (ACL)</dt>
<dd>A list of permissions attached to an object. An ACL specifies
which users or system processes have access to objects. It also
defines which operations can be performed on specified objects. Each
entry in a typical ACL specifies a subject and an operation. For
instance, the ACL entry <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(Alice,</span> <span class="pre">delete)</span></code> for a file gives
Alice permission to delete the file.</dd>
<dt id="term-access-key">access key</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for an Amazon EC2 access key. See EC2 access
key.</dd>
<dt id="term-account">account</dt>
<dd>The Object Storage context of an account. Do not confuse with a
user account from an authentication service, such as Active Directory,
/etc/passwd, OpenLDAP, OpenStack Identity, and so on.</dd>
<dt id="term-account-auditor">account auditor</dt>
<dd>Checks for missing replicas and incorrect or corrupted objects
in a specified Object Storage account by running queries against the
back-end SQLite database.</dd>
<dt id="term-account-database">account database</dt>
<dd>A SQLite database that contains Object Storage accounts and
related metadata and that the accounts server accesses.</dd>
<dt id="term-account-reaper">account reaper</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage worker that scans for and deletes account
databases and that the account server has marked for deletion.</dd>
<dt id="term-account-server">account server</dt>
<dd>Lists containers in Object Storage and stores container
information in the account database.</dd>
<dt id="term-account-service">account service</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage component that provides account services such
as list, create, modify, and audit. Do not confuse with OpenStack
Identity service, OpenLDAP, or similar user-account services.</dd>
<dt id="term-accounting">accounting</dt>
<dd>The Compute service provides accounting information through the
event notification and system usage data facilities.</dd>
<dt id="term-active-directory">Active Directory</dt>
<dd>Authentication and identity service by Microsoft, based on LDAP.
Supported in OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-active-active-configuration">active/active configuration</dt>
<dd>In a high-availability setup with an active/active
configuration, several systems share the load together and if one
fails, the load is distributed to the remaining systems.</dd>
<dt id="term-active-passive-configuration">active/passive configuration</dt>
<dd>In a high-availability setup with an active/passive
configuration, systems are set up to bring additional resources online
to replace those that have failed.</dd>
<dt id="term-address-pool">address pool</dt>
<dd>A group of fixed and/or floating IP addresses that are assigned
to a project and can be used by or assigned to the VM instances in a
project.</dd>
<dt id="term-address-resolution-protocol-arp">Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)</dt>
<dd>The protocol by which layer-3 IP addresses are resolved into
layer-2 link local addresses.</dd>
<dt id="term-admin-api">admin API</dt>
<dd>A subset of API calls that are accessible to authorized
administrators and are generally not accessible to end users or the
public Internet. They can exist as a separate service (keystone) or
can be a subset of another API (nova).</dd>
<dt id="term-admin-server">admin server</dt>
<dd>In the context of the Identity service, the worker process that
provides access to the admin API.</dd>
<dt id="term-administrator">administrator</dt>
<dd>The person responsible for installing, configuring,
and managing an OpenStack cloud.</dd>
<dt id="term-advanced-message-queuing-protocol-amqp">Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)</dt>
<dd>The open standard messaging protocol used by OpenStack
components for intra-service communications, provided by RabbitMQ,
Qpid, or ZeroMQ.</dd>
<dt id="term-advanced-risc-machine-arm">Advanced RISC Machine (ARM)</dt>
<dd>Lower power consumption CPU often found in mobile and embedded
devices. Supported by OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-alert">alert</dt>
<dd>The Compute service can send alerts through its notification
system, which includes a facility to create custom notification
drivers. Alerts can be sent to and displayed on the dashboard.</dd>
<dt id="term-allocate">allocate</dt>
<dd>The process of taking a floating IP address from the address
pool so it can be associated with a fixed IP on a guest VM
instance.</dd>
<dt id="term-amazon-kernel-image-aki">Amazon Kernel Image (AKI)</dt>
<dd>Both a VM container format and disk format. Supported by Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-amazon-machine-image-ami">Amazon Machine Image (AMI)</dt>
<dd>Both a VM container format and disk format. Supported by Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-amazon-ramdisk-image-ari">Amazon Ramdisk Image (ARI)</dt>
<dd>Both a VM container format and disk format. Supported by Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-anvil">Anvil</dt>
<dd>A project that ports the shell script-based project named
DevStack to Python.</dd>
<dt id="term-aodh">aodh</dt>
<dd>Part of the OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-telemetry-service-telemetry"><span class="xref std std-term">Telemetry service</span></a>; provides alarming functionality.</dd>
<dt id="term-apache">Apache</dt>
<dd>The Apache Software Foundation supports the Apache community of
open-source software projects. These projects provide software
products for the public good.</dd>
<dt id="term-apache-license-2-0">Apache License 2.0</dt>
<dd>All OpenStack core projects are provided under the terms of the
Apache License 2.0 license.</dd>
<dt id="term-apache-web-server">Apache Web Server</dt>
<dd>The most common web server software currently used on the
Internet.</dd>
<dt id="term-api-endpoint">API endpoint</dt>
<dd>The daemon, worker, or service that a client communicates with
to access an API. API endpoints can provide any number of services,
such as authentication, sales data, performance meters, Compute VM
commands, census data, and so on.</dd>
<dt id="term-api-extension">API extension</dt>
<dd>Custom modules that extend some OpenStack core APIs.</dd>
<dt id="term-api-extension-plug-in">API extension plug-in</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a Networking plug-in or Networking API
extension.</dd>
<dt id="term-api-key">API key</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for an API token.</dd>
<dt id="term-api-server">API server</dt>
<dd>Any node running a daemon or worker that provides an API
endpoint.</dd>
<dt id="term-api-token">API token</dt>
<dd>Passed to API requests and used by OpenStack to verify that the
client is authorized to run the requested operation.</dd>
<dt id="term-api-version">API version</dt>
<dd>In OpenStack, the API version for a project is part of the URL.
For example, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">example.com/nova/v1/foobar</span></code>.</dd>
<dt id="term-applet">applet</dt>
<dd>A Java program that can be embedded into a web page.</dd>
<dt id="term-application-catalog-service-murano">Application Catalog service (murano)</dt>
<dd>The project that provides an application catalog service so that users
can compose and deploy composite environments on an application
abstraction level while managing the application lifecycle.</dd>
<dt id="term-application-programming-interface-api">Application Programming Interface (API)</dt>
<dd>A collection of specifications used to access a service,
application, or program. Includes service calls, required parameters
for each call, and the expected return values.</dd>
<dt id="term-application-server">application server</dt>
<dd>A piece of software that makes available another piece of
software over a network.</dd>
<dt id="term-application-service-provider-asp">Application Service Provider (ASP)</dt>
<dd>Companies that rent specialized applications that help
businesses and organizations provide additional services
with lower cost.</dd>
<dt id="term-arptables">arptables</dt>
<dd>Tool used for maintaining Address Resolution Protocol packet
filter rules in the Linux kernel firewall modules. Used along with
iptables, ebtables, and ip6tables in Compute to provide firewall
services for VMs.</dd>
<dt id="term-associate">associate</dt>
<dd>The process associating a Compute floating IP address with a
fixed IP address.</dd>
<dt id="term-asynchronous-javascript-and-xml-ajax">Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)</dt>
<dd>A group of interrelated web development techniques used on the
client-side to create asynchronous web applications. Used extensively
in horizon.</dd>
<dt id="term-ata-over-ethernet-aoe">ATA over Ethernet (AoE)</dt>
<dd>A disk storage protocol tunneled within Ethernet.</dd>
<dt id="term-attach">attach</dt>
<dd>The process of connecting a VIF or vNIC to a L2 network in
Networking. In the context of Compute, this process connects a storage
volume to an instance.</dd>
<dt id="term-attachment-network">attachment (network)</dt>
<dd>Association of an interface ID to a logical port. Plugs an
interface into a port.</dd>
<dt id="term-auditing">auditing</dt>
<dd>Provided in Compute through the system usage data
facility.</dd>
<dt id="term-auditor">auditor</dt>
<dd>A worker process that verifies the integrity of Object Storage
objects, containers, and accounts. Auditors is the collective term for
the Object Storage account auditor, container auditor, and object
auditor.</dd>
<dt id="term-austin">Austin</dt>
<dd>The code name for the initial release of
OpenStack. The first design summit took place in
Austin, Texas, US.</dd>
<dt id="term-auth-node">auth node</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for an Object Storage authorization
node.</dd>
<dt id="term-authentication">authentication</dt>
<dd>The process that confirms that the user, process, or client is
really who they say they are through private key, secret token,
password, fingerprint, or similar method.</dd>
<dt id="term-authentication-token">authentication token</dt>
<dd>A string of text provided to the client after authentication.
Must be provided by the user or process in subsequent requests to the
API endpoint.</dd>
<dt id="term-authn">AuthN</dt>
<dd>The Identity service component that provides authentication
services.</dd>
<dt id="term-authorization">authorization</dt>
<dd>The act of verifying that a user, process, or client is
authorized to perform an action.</dd>
<dt id="term-authorization-node">authorization node</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage node that provides authorization
services.</dd>
<dt id="term-authz">AuthZ</dt>
<dd>The Identity component that provides high-level
authorization services.</dd>
<dt id="term-auto-ack">Auto ACK</dt>
<dd>Configuration setting within RabbitMQ that enables or disables
message acknowledgment. Enabled by default.</dd>
<dt id="term-auto-declare">auto declare</dt>
<dd>A Compute RabbitMQ setting that determines whether a message
exchange is automatically created when the program starts.</dd>
<dt id="term-availability-zone">availability zone</dt>
<dd>An Amazon EC2 concept of an isolated area that is used for fault
tolerance. Do not confuse with an OpenStack Compute zone or
cell.</dd>
<dt id="term-aws-cloudformation-template">AWS CloudFormation template</dt>
<dd>AWS CloudFormation allows Amazon Web Services (AWS) users to create and manage a
collection of related resources. The Orchestration service
supports a CloudFormation-compatible format (CFN).</dd>
</dl>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-back-end">back end</dt>
<dd>Interactions and processes that are obfuscated from the user,
such as Compute volume mount, data transmission to an iSCSI target by
a daemon, or Object Storage object integrity checks.</dd>
<dt id="term-back-end-catalog">back-end catalog</dt>
<dd>The storage method used by the Identity service catalog service
to store and retrieve information about API endpoints that are
available to the client. Examples include an SQL database, LDAP
database, or KVS back end.</dd>
<dt id="term-back-end-store">back-end store</dt>
<dd>The persistent data store used to save and retrieve information
for a service, such as lists of Object Storage objects, current state
of guest VMs, lists of user names, and so on. Also, the method that the
Image service uses to get and store VM images. Options include Object
Storage, locally mounted file system, RADOS block devices, VMware
datastore, and HTTP.</dd>
<dt id="term-backup-restore-and-disaster-recovery-service-freezer">Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery service (freezer)</dt>
<dd>The project that provides integrated tooling for backing up, restoring,
and recovering file systems, instances, or database backups.</dd>
<dt id="term-bandwidth">bandwidth</dt>
<dd>The amount of available data used by communication resources,
such as the Internet. Represents the amount of data that is used to
download things or the amount of data available to download.</dd>
<dt id="term-barbican">barbican</dt>
<dd>Code name of the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-key-manager-service-barbican"><span class="xref std std-term">Key Manager service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-bare">bare</dt>
<dd>An Image service container format that indicates that no
container exists for the VM image.</dd>
<dt id="term-bare-metal-service-ironic">Bare Metal service (ironic)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack service that provides a service and associated libraries
capable of managing and provisioning physical machines in a
security-aware and fault-tolerant manner.</dd>
<dt id="term-base-image">base image</dt>
<dd>An OpenStack-provided image.</dd>
<dt id="term-bell-lapadula-model">Bell-LaPadula model</dt>
<dd>A security model that focuses on data confidentiality
and controlled access to classified information.
This model divides the entities into subjects and objects.
The clearance of a subject is compared to the classification of the
object to determine if the subject is authorized for the specific access mode.
The clearance or classification scheme is expressed in terms of a lattice.</dd>
<dt id="term-benchmark-service-rally">Benchmark service (rally)</dt>
<dd>OpenStack project that provides a framework for
performance analysis and benchmarking of individual
OpenStack components as well as full production OpenStack
cloud deployments.</dd>
<dt id="term-bexar">Bexar</dt>
<dd>A grouped release of projects related to
OpenStack that came out in February of 2011. It
included only Compute (nova) and Object Storage (swift).
Bexar is the code name for the second release of
OpenStack. The design summit took place in
San Antonio, Texas, US, which is the county seat for Bexar county.</dd>
<dt id="term-binary">binary</dt>
<dd>Information that consists solely of ones and zeroes, which is
the language of computers.</dd>
<dt id="term-bit">bit</dt>
<dd>A bit is a single digit number that is in base of 2 (either a
zero or one). Bandwidth usage is measured in bits per second.</dd>
<dt id="term-bits-per-second-bps">bits per second (BPS)</dt>
<dd>The universal measurement of how quickly data is transferred
from place to place.</dd>
<dt id="term-block-device">block device</dt>
<dd>A device that moves data in the form of blocks. These device
nodes interface the devices, such as hard disks, CD-ROM drives, flash
drives, and other addressable regions of memory.</dd>
<dt id="term-block-migration">block migration</dt>
<dd>A method of VM live migration used by KVM to evacuate instances
from one host to another with very little downtime during a
user-initiated switchover. Does not require shared storage. Supported
by Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-block-storage-api">Block Storage API</dt>
<dd>An API on a separate endpoint for attaching,
detaching, and creating block storage for compute
VMs.</dd>
<dt id="term-block-storage-service-cinder">Block Storage service (cinder)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack service that implement services and libraries to provide
on-demand, self-service access to Block Storage resources via abstraction
and automation on top of other block storage devices.</dd>
<dt id="term-bmc-baseboard-management-controller">BMC (Baseboard Management Controller)</dt>
<dd>The intelligence in the IPMI architecture, which is a specialized
micro-controller that is embedded on the motherboard of a computer
and acts as a server. Manages the interface between system management
software and platform hardware.</dd>
<dt id="term-bootable-disk-image">bootable disk image</dt>
<dd>A type of VM image that exists as a single, bootable
file.</dd>
<dt id="term-bootstrap-protocol-bootp">Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP)</dt>
<dd>A network protocol used by a network client to obtain an IP
address from a configuration server. Provided in Compute through the
dnsmasq daemon when using either the FlatDHCP manager or VLAN manager
network manager.</dd>
<dt id="term-border-gateway-protocol-bgp">Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)</dt>
<dd>The Border Gateway Protocol is a dynamic routing protocol
that connects autonomous systems. Considered the
backbone of the Internet, this protocol connects disparate
networks to form a larger network.</dd>
<dt id="term-browser">browser</dt>
<dd>Any client software that enables a computer or device to access
the Internet.</dd>
<dt id="term-builder-file">builder file</dt>
<dd>Contains configuration information that Object Storage uses to
reconfigure a ring or to re-create it from scratch after a serious
failure.</dd>
<dt id="term-bursting">bursting</dt>
<dd>The practice of utilizing a secondary environment to
elastically build instances on-demand when the primary
environment is resource constrained.</dd>
<dt id="term-button-class">button class</dt>
<dd>A group of related button types within horizon. Buttons to
start, stop, and suspend VMs are in one class. Buttons to associate
and disassociate floating IP addresses are in another class, and so
on.</dd>
<dt id="term-byte">byte</dt>
<dd>Set of bits that make up a single character; there are usually 8
bits to a byte.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-cache-pruner">cache pruner</dt>
<dd>A program that keeps the Image service VM image cache at or
below its configured maximum size.</dd>
<dt id="term-cactus">Cactus</dt>
<dd>An OpenStack grouped release of projects that came out in the
spring of 2011. It included Compute (nova), Object Storage (swift),
and the Image service (glance).
Cactus is a city in Texas, US and is the code name for
the third release of OpenStack. When OpenStack releases went
from three to six months long, the code name of the release
changed to match a geography nearest the previous
summit.</dd>
<dt id="term-call">CALL</dt>
<dd>One of the RPC primitives used by the OpenStack message queue
software. Sends a message and waits for a response.</dd>
<dt id="term-capability">capability</dt>
<dd>Defines resources for a cell, including CPU, storage, and
networking. Can apply to the specific services within a cell or a
whole cell.</dd>
<dt id="term-capacity-cache">capacity cache</dt>
<dd>A Compute back-end database table that contains the current
workload, amount of free RAM, and number of VMs running on each host.
Used to determine on which host a VM starts.</dd>
<dt id="term-capacity-updater">capacity updater</dt>
<dd>A notification driver that monitors VM instances and updates the
capacity cache as needed.</dd>
<dt id="term-cast">CAST</dt>
<dd>One of the RPC primitives used by the OpenStack message queue
software. Sends a message and does not wait for a response.</dd>
<dt id="term-catalog">catalog</dt>
<dd>A list of API endpoints that are available to a user after
authentication with the Identity service.</dd>
<dt id="term-catalog-service">catalog service</dt>
<dd>An Identity service that lists API endpoints that are available
to a user after authentication with the Identity service.</dd>
<dt id="term-ceilometer">ceilometer</dt>
<dd>Part of the OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-telemetry-service-telemetry"><span class="xref std std-term">Telemetry service</span></a>; gathers and stores metrics from other
OpenStack services.</dd>
<dt id="term-cell">cell</dt>
<dd>Provides logical partitioning of Compute resources in a child
and parent relationship. Requests are passed from parent cells to
child cells if the parent cannot provide the requested
resource.</dd>
<dt id="term-cell-forwarding">cell forwarding</dt>
<dd>A Compute option that enables parent cells to pass resource
requests to child cells if the parent cannot provide the requested
resource.</dd>
<dt id="term-cell-manager">cell manager</dt>
<dd>The Compute component that contains a list of the current
capabilities of each host within the cell and routes requests as
appropriate.</dd>
<dt id="term-centos">CentOS</dt>
<dd>A Linux distribution that is compatible with OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-ceph">Ceph</dt>
<dd>Massively scalable distributed storage system that consists of
an object store, block store, and POSIX-compatible distributed file
system. Compatible with OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-cephfs">CephFS</dt>
<dd>The POSIX-compliant file system provided by Ceph.</dd>
<dt id="term-certificate-authority-ca">certificate authority (CA)</dt>
<dd>In cryptography, an entity that issues digital certificates. The digital
certificate certifies the ownership of a public key by the named
subject of the certificate. This enables others (relying parties) to
rely upon signatures or assertions made by the private key that
corresponds to the certified public key. In this model of trust
relationships, a CA is a trusted third party for both the subject
(owner) of the certificate and the party relying upon the certificate.
CAs are characteristic of many public key infrastructure (PKI)
schemes.
In OpenStack, a simple certificate authority is provided by Compute for
cloudpipe VPNs and VM image decryption.</dd>
<dt id="term-challenge-handshake-authentication-protocol-chap">Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)</dt>
<dd>An iSCSI authentication method supported by Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-chance-scheduler">chance scheduler</dt>
<dd>A scheduling method used by Compute that randomly chooses an
available host from the pool.</dd>
<dt id="term-changes-since">changes since</dt>
<dd>A Compute API parameter that downloads changes to the requested
item since your last request, instead of downloading a new, fresh set
of data and comparing it against the old data.</dd>
<dt id="term-chef">Chef</dt>
<dd>An operating system configuration management tool supporting
OpenStack deployments.</dd>
<dt id="term-child-cell">child cell</dt>
<dd>If a requested resource such as CPU time, disk storage, or
memory is not available in the parent cell, the request is forwarded
to its associated child cells. If the child cell can fulfill the
request, it does. Otherwise, it attempts to pass the request to any of
its children.</dd>
<dt id="term-cinder">cinder</dt>
<dd>Codename for <a class="reference internal" href="#term-block-storage-service-cinder"><span class="xref std std-term">Block Storage service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-cirros">CirrOS</dt>
<dd>A minimal Linux distribution designed for use as a test
image on clouds such as OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-cisco-neutron-plug-in">Cisco neutron plug-in</dt>
<dd>A Networking plug-in for Cisco devices and technologies,
including UCS and Nexus.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloud-architect">cloud architect</dt>
<dd>A person who plans, designs, and oversees the creation of
clouds.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloud-auditing-data-federation-cadf">Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF)</dt>
<dd>Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) is a
specification for audit event data. CADF is
supported by OpenStack Identity.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloud-computing">cloud computing</dt>
<dd>A model that enables access to a shared pool of configurable
computing resources, such as networks, servers, storage, applications,
and services, that can be rapidly provisioned and released with
minimal management effort or service provider interaction.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloud-controller">cloud controller</dt>
<dd>Collection of Compute components that represent the global state
of the cloud; talks to services, such as Identity authentication,
Object Storage, and node/storage workers through a
queue.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloud-controller-node">cloud controller node</dt>
<dd>A node that runs network, volume, API, scheduler, and image
services. Each service may be broken out into separate nodes for
scalability or availability.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloud-data-management-interface-cdmi">Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)</dt>
<dd>SINA standard that defines a RESTful API for managing objects in
the cloud, currently unsupported in OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloud-infrastructure-management-interface-cimi">Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI)</dt>
<dd>An in-progress specification for cloud management. Currently
unsupported in OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloud-init">cloud-init</dt>
<dd>A package commonly installed in VM images that performs
initialization of an instance after boot using information that it
retrieves from the metadata service, such as the SSH public key and
user data.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloudadmin">cloudadmin</dt>
<dd>One of the default roles in the Compute RBAC system. Grants
complete system access.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloudbase-init">Cloudbase-Init</dt>
<dd>A Windows project providing guest initialization features,
similar to cloud-init.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloudpipe">cloudpipe</dt>
<dd>A compute service that creates VPNs on a per-project
basis.</dd>
<dt id="term-cloudpipe-image">cloudpipe image</dt>
<dd>A pre-made VM image that serves as a cloudpipe server.
Essentially, OpenVPN running on Linux.</dd>
<dt id="term-clustering-service-senlin">Clustering service (senlin)</dt>
<dd>The project that implements clustering services and libraries
for the management of groups of homogeneous objects exposed
by other OpenStack services.</dd>
<dt id="term-command-filter">command filter</dt>
<dd>Lists allowed commands within the Compute rootwrap
facility.</dd>
<dt id="term-common-internet-file-system-cifs">Common Internet File System (CIFS)</dt>
<dd>A file sharing protocol. It is a public or open variation of the
original Server Message Block (SMB) protocol developed and used by
Microsoft. Like the SMB protocol, CIFS runs at a higher level and uses
the TCP/IP protocol.</dd>
<dt id="term-common-libraries-oslo">Common Libraries (oslo)</dt>
<dd>The project that produces a set of python libraries containing code
shared by OpenStack projects. The APIs provided by these libraries
should be high quality, stable, consistent, documented and generally
applicable.</dd>
<dt id="term-community-project">community project</dt>
<dd>A project that is not officially endorsed by the OpenStack
Foundation. If the project is successful enough, it might be elevated
to an incubated project and then to a core project, or it might be
merged with the main code trunk.</dd>
<dt id="term-compression">compression</dt>
<dd>Reducing the size of files by special encoding, the file can be
decompressed again to its original content. OpenStack supports
compression at the Linux file system level but does not support
compression for things such as Object Storage objects or Image service
VM images.</dd>
<dt id="term-compute-api-nova-api">Compute API (Nova API)</dt>
<dd>The nova-api daemon provides access to nova services. Can communicate with
other APIs, such as the Amazon EC2 API.</dd>
<dt id="term-compute-controller">compute controller</dt>
<dd>The Compute component that chooses suitable hosts on which to
start VM instances.</dd>
<dt id="term-compute-host">compute host</dt>
<dd>Physical host dedicated to running compute nodes.</dd>
<dt id="term-compute-node">compute node</dt>
<dd>A node that runs the nova-compute daemon that manages VM
instances that provide a wide
range of services, such as web applications and analytics.</dd>
<dt id="term-compute-service-nova">Compute service (nova)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack core project that implements services and associated
libraries to provide massively-scalable, on-demand, self-service
access to compute resources, including bare metal, virtual machines,
and containers.</dd>
<dt id="term-compute-worker">compute worker</dt>
<dd>The Compute component that runs on each compute node and manages
the VM instance lifecycle, including run, reboot, terminate,
attach/detach volumes, and so on. Provided by the nova-compute daemon.</dd>
<dt id="term-concatenated-object">concatenated object</dt>
<dd>A set of segment objects that Object Storage combines and sends
to the client.</dd>
<dt id="term-conductor">conductor</dt>
<dd>In Compute, conductor is the process that proxies database
requests from the compute process. Using conductor improves security
because compute nodes do not need direct access to the
database.</dd>
<dt id="term-congress">congress</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-governance-service-congress"><span class="xref std std-term">Governance service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-consistency-window">consistency window</dt>
<dd>The amount of time it takes for a new Object Storage object to
become accessible to all clients.</dd>
<dt id="term-console-log">console log</dt>
<dd>Contains the output from a Linux VM console in Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-container">container</dt>
<dd>Organizes and stores objects in Object Storage. Similar to the
concept of a Linux directory but cannot be nested. Alternative term
for an Image service container format.</dd>
<dt id="term-container-auditor">container auditor</dt>
<dd>Checks for missing replicas or incorrect objects in specified
Object Storage containers through queries to the SQLite back-end
database.</dd>
<dt id="term-container-database">container database</dt>
<dd>A SQLite database that stores Object Storage containers and
container metadata. The container server accesses this
database.</dd>
<dt id="term-container-format">container format</dt>
<dd>A wrapper used by the Image service that contains a VM image and
its associated metadata, such as machine state, OS disk size, and so
on.</dd>
<dt id="term-container-infrastructure-management-service-magnum">Container Infrastructure Management service (magnum)</dt>
<dd>The project which provides a set of services for provisioning, scaling,
and managing container orchestration engines.</dd>
<dt id="term-container-server">container server</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage server that manages containers.</dd>
<dt id="term-container-service">container service</dt>
<dd>The Object Storage component that provides container services,
such as create, delete, list, and so on.</dd>
<dt id="term-content-delivery-network-cdn">content delivery network (CDN)</dt>
<dd>A content delivery network is a specialized network that is
used to distribute content to clients, typically located
close to the client for increased performance.</dd>
<dt id="term-controller-node">controller node</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a cloud controller node.</dd>
<dt id="term-core-api">core API</dt>
<dd>Depending on context, the core API is either the OpenStack API
or the main API of a specific core project, such as Compute,
Networking, Image service, and so on.</dd>
<dt id="term-core-service">core service</dt>
<dd>An official OpenStack service defined as core by
DefCore Committee. Currently, consists of
Block Storage service (cinder), Compute service (nova),
Identity service (keystone), Image service (glance),
Networking service (neutron), and Object Storage service (swift).</dd>
<dt id="term-cost">cost</dt>
<dd>Under the Compute distributed scheduler, this is calculated by
looking at the capabilities of each host relative to the flavor of the
VM instance being requested.</dd>
<dt id="term-credentials">credentials</dt>
<dd>Data that is only known to or accessible by a user and
used to verify that the user is who he says he is.
Credentials are presented to the server during
authentication. Examples include a password, secret key,
digital certificate, and fingerprint.</dd>
<dt id="term-crl">CRL</dt>
<dd>A Certificate Revocation List (CRL) in a PKI model is a list of
certificates that have been revoked. End entities presenting
these certificates should not be trusted.</dd>
<dt id="term-cross-origin-resource-sharing-cors">Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)</dt>
<dd>A mechanism that allows many resources (for example,
fonts, JavaScript) on a web page to be requested from
another domain outside the domain from which the resource
originated. In particular, JavaScript’s AJAX calls can use
the XMLHttpRequest mechanism.</dd>
<dt id="term-crowbar">Crowbar</dt>
<dd>An open source community project by SUSE that aims to provide
all necessary services to quickly deploy and manage clouds.</dd>
<dt id="term-current-workload">current workload</dt>
<dd>An element of the Compute capacity cache that is calculated
based on the number of build, snapshot, migrate, and resize operations
currently in progress on a given host.</dd>
<dt id="term-customer">customer</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for project.</dd>
<dt id="term-customization-module">customization module</dt>
<dd>A user-created Python module that is loaded by horizon to change
the look and feel of the dashboard.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-daemon">daemon</dt>
<dd>A process that runs in the background and waits for requests.
May or may not listen on a TCP or UDP port. Do not confuse with a
worker.</dd>
<dt id="term-dashboard-horizon">Dashboard (horizon)</dt>
<dd>OpenStack project which provides an extensible, unified, web-based
user interface for all OpenStack services.</dd>
<dt id="term-data-encryption">data encryption</dt>
<dd>Both Image service and Compute support encrypted virtual machine
(VM) images (but not instances). In-transit data encryption is
supported in OpenStack using technologies such as HTTPS, SSL, TLS, and
SSH. Object Storage does not support object encryption at the
application level but may support storage that uses disk encryption.</dd>
<dt id="term-data-loss-prevention-dlp-software">Data loss prevention (DLP) software</dt>
<dd>Software programs used to protect sensitive information
and prevent it from leaking outside a network boundary
through the detection and denying of the data transportation.</dd>
<dt id="term-data-processing-service-sahara">Data Processing service (sahara)</dt>
<dd>OpenStack project that provides a scalable
data-processing stack and associated management
interfaces.</dd>
<dt id="term-data-store">data store</dt>
<dd>A database engine supported by the Database service.</dd>
<dt id="term-database-id">database ID</dt>
<dd>A unique ID given to each replica of an Object Storage
database.</dd>
<dt id="term-database-replicator">database replicator</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage component that copies changes in the account,
container, and object databases to other nodes.</dd>
<dt id="term-database-service-trove">Database service (trove)</dt>
<dd>An integrated project that provides scalable and reliable
Cloud Database-as-a-Service functionality for both
relational and non-relational database engines.</dd>
<dt id="term-deallocate">deallocate</dt>
<dd>The process of removing the association between a floating IP
address and a fixed IP address. Once this association is removed, the
floating IP returns to the address pool.</dd>
<dt id="term-debian">Debian</dt>
<dd>A Linux distribution that is compatible with OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-deduplication">deduplication</dt>
<dd>The process of finding duplicate data at the disk block, file,
and/or object level to minimize storage use—currently unsupported
within OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-default-panel">default panel</dt>
<dd>The default panel that is displayed when a user accesses the
dashboard.</dd>
<dt id="term-default-project">default project</dt>
<dd>New users are assigned to this project if no project is specified
when a user is created.</dd>
<dt id="term-default-token">default token</dt>
<dd>An Identity service token that is not associated with a specific
project and is exchanged for a scoped token.</dd>
<dt id="term-delayed-delete">delayed delete</dt>
<dd>An option within Image service so that an image is deleted after
a predefined number of seconds instead of immediately.</dd>
<dt id="term-delivery-mode">delivery mode</dt>
<dd>Setting for the Compute RabbitMQ message delivery mode; can be
set to either transient or persistent.</dd>
<dt id="term-denial-of-service-dos">denial of service (DoS)</dt>
<dd>Denial of service (DoS) is a short form for
denial-of-service attack. This is a malicious attempt to
prevent legitimate users from using a service.</dd>
<dt id="term-deprecated-auth">deprecated auth</dt>
<dd>An option within Compute that enables administrators to create
and manage users through the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">nova-manage</span></code> command as
opposed to using the Identity service.</dd>
<dt id="term-designate">designate</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-dns-service-designate"><span class="xref std std-term">DNS service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-desktop-as-a-service">Desktop-as-a-Service</dt>
<dd>A platform that provides a suite of desktop environments
that users access to receive a desktop experience from
any location. This may provide general use, development, or
even homogeneous testing environments.</dd>
<dt id="term-developer">developer</dt>
<dd>One of the default roles in the Compute RBAC system and the
default role assigned to a new user.</dd>
<dt id="term-device-id">device ID</dt>
<dd>Maps Object Storage partitions to physical storage
devices.</dd>
<dt id="term-device-weight">device weight</dt>
<dd>Distributes partitions proportionately across Object Storage
devices based on the storage capacity of each device.</dd>
<dt id="term-devstack">DevStack</dt>
<dd>Community project that uses shell scripts to quickly build
complete OpenStack development environments.</dd>
<dt id="term-dhcp-agent">DHCP agent</dt>
<dd>OpenStack Networking agent that provides DHCP services
for virtual networks.</dd>
<dt id="term-diablo">Diablo</dt>
<dd>A grouped release of projects related to OpenStack that came out
in the fall of 2011, the fourth release of OpenStack. It included
Compute (nova 2011.3), Object Storage (swift 1.4.3), and the Image
service (glance).
Diablo is the code name for the fourth release of
OpenStack. The design summit took place in
the Bay Area near Santa Clara,
California, US and Diablo is a nearby city.</dd>
<dt id="term-direct-consumer">direct consumer</dt>
<dd>An element of the Compute RabbitMQ that comes to life when a RPC
call is executed. It connects to a direct exchange through a unique
exclusive queue, sends the message, and terminates.</dd>
<dt id="term-direct-exchange">direct exchange</dt>
<dd>A routing table that is created within the Compute RabbitMQ
during RPC calls; one is created for each RPC call that is
invoked.</dd>
<dt id="term-direct-publisher">direct publisher</dt>
<dd>Element of RabbitMQ that provides a response to an incoming MQ
message.</dd>
<dt id="term-disassociate">disassociate</dt>
<dd>The process of removing the association between a floating IP
address and fixed IP and thus returning the floating IP address to the
address pool.</dd>
<dt id="term-discretionary-access-control-dac">Discretionary Access Control (DAC)</dt>
<dd>Governs the ability of subjects to access objects, while enabling
users to make policy decisions and assign security attributes.
The traditional UNIX system of users, groups, and read-write-execute
permissions is an example of DAC.</dd>
<dt id="term-disk-encryption">disk encryption</dt>
<dd>The ability to encrypt data at the file system, disk partition,
or whole-disk level. Supported within Compute VMs.</dd>
<dt id="term-disk-format">disk format</dt>
<dd>The underlying format that a disk image for a VM is stored as
within the Image service back-end store. For example, AMI, ISO, QCOW2,
VMDK, and so on.</dd>
<dt id="term-dispersion">dispersion</dt>
<dd>In Object Storage, tools to test and ensure dispersion of
objects and containers to ensure fault tolerance.</dd>
<dt id="term-distributed-virtual-router-dvr">distributed virtual router (DVR)</dt>
<dd>Mechanism for highly available multi-host routing when using
OpenStack Networking (neutron).</dd>
<dt id="term-django">Django</dt>
<dd>A web framework used extensively in horizon.</dd>
<dt id="term-dns-record">DNS record</dt>
<dd>A record that specifies information about a particular domain
and belongs to the domain.</dd>
<dt id="term-dns-service-designate">DNS service (designate)</dt>
<dd>OpenStack project that provides scalable, on demand, self
service access to authoritative DNS services, in a
technology-agnostic manner.</dd>
<dt id="term-dnsmasq">dnsmasq</dt>
<dd>Daemon that provides DNS, DHCP, BOOTP, and TFTP services for
virtual networks.</dd>
<dt id="term-domain">domain</dt>
<dd>An Identity API v3 entity. Represents a collection of
projects, groups and users that defines administrative boundaries for
managing OpenStack Identity entities.
On the Internet, separates a website from other sites. Often,
the domain name has two or more parts that are separated by dots.
For example, yahoo.com, usa.gov, harvard.edu, or
mail.yahoo.com.
Also, a domain is an entity or container of all DNS-related
information containing one or more records.</dd>
<dt id="term-domain-name-system-dns">Domain Name System (DNS)</dt>
<dd>A system by which Internet domain name-to-address and
address-to-name resolutions are determined.
DNS helps navigate the Internet by translating the IP address
into an address that is easier to remember. For example, translating
111.111.111.1 into www.yahoo.com.
All domains and their components, such as mail servers, utilize
DNS to resolve to the appropriate locations. DNS servers are usually
set up in a master-slave relationship such that failure of the master
invokes the slave. DNS servers might also be clustered or replicated
such that changes made to one DNS server are automatically propagated
to other active servers.
In Compute, the support that enables associating DNS entries
with floating IP addresses, nodes, or cells so that hostnames are
consistent across reboots.</dd>
<dt id="term-download">download</dt>
<dd>The transfer of data, usually in the form of files, from one
computer to another.</dd>
<dt id="term-durable-exchange">durable exchange</dt>
<dd>The Compute RabbitMQ message exchange that remains active when
the server restarts.</dd>
<dt id="term-durable-queue">durable queue</dt>
<dd>A Compute RabbitMQ message queue that remains active when the
server restarts.</dd>
<dt id="term-dynamic-host-configuration-protocol-dhcp">Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)</dt>
<dd>A network protocol that configures devices that are connected to a
network so that they can communicate on that network by using the
Internet Protocol (IP). The protocol is implemented in a client-server
model where DHCP clients request configuration data, such as an IP
address, a default route, and one or more DNS server addresses from a
DHCP server.
A method to automatically configure networking for a host at
boot time. Provided by both Networking and Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-dynamic-hypertext-markup-language-dhtml">Dynamic HyperText Markup Language (DHTML)</dt>
<dd>Pages that use HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets to
enable users to interact with a web page or show simple
animation.</dd>
</dl>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-east-west-traffic">east-west traffic</dt>
<dd>Network traffic between servers in the same cloud or data center.
See also north-south traffic.</dd>
<dt id="term-ebs-boot-volume">EBS boot volume</dt>
<dd>An Amazon EBS storage volume that contains a bootable VM image,
currently unsupported in OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-ebtables">ebtables</dt>
<dd>Filtering tool for a Linux bridging firewall, enabling
filtering of network traffic passing through a Linux bridge.
Used in Compute along with arptables, iptables, and ip6tables
to ensure isolation of network communications.</dd>
<dt id="term-ec2">EC2</dt>
<dd>The Amazon commercial compute product, similar to
Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-ec2-access-key">EC2 access key</dt>
<dd>Used along with an EC2 secret key to access the Compute EC2
API.</dd>
<dt id="term-ec2-api">EC2 API</dt>
<dd>OpenStack supports accessing the Amazon EC2 API through
Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-ec2-compatibility-api">EC2 Compatibility API</dt>
<dd>A Compute component that enables OpenStack to communicate with
Amazon EC2.</dd>
<dt id="term-ec2-secret-key">EC2 secret key</dt>
<dd>Used along with an EC2 access key when communicating with the
Compute EC2 API; used to digitally sign each request.</dd>
<dt id="term-elastic-block-storage-ebs">Elastic Block Storage (EBS)</dt>
<dd>The Amazon commercial block storage product.</dd>
<dt id="term-encapsulation">encapsulation</dt>
<dd>The practice of placing one packet type within another for
the purposes of abstracting or securing data. Examples
include GRE, MPLS, or IPsec.</dd>
<dt id="term-encryption">encryption</dt>
<dd>OpenStack supports encryption technologies such as HTTPS, SSH,
SSL, TLS, digital certificates, and data encryption.</dd>
<dt id="term-endpoint">endpoint</dt>
<dd>See API endpoint.</dd>
<dt id="term-endpoint-registry">endpoint registry</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for an Identity service catalog.</dd>
<dt id="term-endpoint-template">endpoint template</dt>
<dd>A list of URL and port number endpoints that indicate where a
service, such as Object Storage, Compute, Identity, and so on, can be
accessed.</dd>
<dt id="term-entity">entity</dt>
<dd>Any piece of hardware or software that wants to connect to the
network services provided by Networking, the network connectivity
service. An entity can make use of Networking by implementing a
VIF.</dd>
<dt id="term-ephemeral-image">ephemeral image</dt>
<dd>A VM image that does not save changes made to its volumes and
reverts them to their original state after the instance is
terminated.</dd>
<dt id="term-ephemeral-volume">ephemeral volume</dt>
<dd>Volume that does not save the changes made to it and reverts to
its original state when the current user relinquishes control.</dd>
<dt id="term-essex">Essex</dt>
<dd>A grouped release of projects related to OpenStack that came out
in April 2012, the fifth release of OpenStack. It included Compute
(nova 2012.1), Object Storage (swift 1.4.8), Image (glance), Identity
(keystone), and Dashboard (horizon).
Essex is the code name for the fifth release of
OpenStack. The design summit took place in
Boston, Massachusetts, US and Essex is a nearby city.</dd>
<dt id="term-esxi">ESXi</dt>
<dd>An OpenStack-supported hypervisor.</dd>
<dt id="term-etag">ETag</dt>
<dd>MD5 hash of an object within Object Storage, used to ensure data
integrity.</dd>
<dt id="term-euca2ools">euca2ools</dt>
<dd>A collection of command-line tools for administering VMs; most
are compatible with OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-eucalyptus-kernel-image-eki">Eucalyptus Kernel Image (EKI)</dt>
<dd>Used along with an ERI to create an EMI.</dd>
<dt id="term-eucalyptus-machine-image-emi">Eucalyptus Machine Image (EMI)</dt>
<dd>VM image container format supported by Image service.</dd>
<dt id="term-eucalyptus-ramdisk-image-eri">Eucalyptus Ramdisk Image (ERI)</dt>
<dd>Used along with an EKI to create an EMI.</dd>
<dt id="term-evacuate">evacuate</dt>
<dd>The process of migrating one or all virtual machine (VM)
instances from one host to another, compatible with both shared
storage live migration and block migration.</dd>
<dt id="term-exchange">exchange</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a RabbitMQ message exchange.</dd>
<dt id="term-exchange-type">exchange type</dt>
<dd>A routing algorithm in the Compute RabbitMQ.</dd>
<dt id="term-exclusive-queue">exclusive queue</dt>
<dd>Connected to by a direct consumer in RabbitMQ—Compute, the
message can be consumed only by the current connection.</dd>
<dt id="term-extended-attributes-xattr">extended attributes (xattr)</dt>
<dd>File system option that enables storage of additional
information beyond owner, group, permissions, modification time, and
so on. The underlying Object Storage file system must support extended
attributes.</dd>
<dt id="term-extension">extension</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for an API extension or plug-in. In the context
of Identity service, this is a call that is specific to the
implementation, such as adding support for OpenID.</dd>
<dt id="term-external-network">external network</dt>
<dd>A network segment typically used for instance Internet
access.</dd>
<dt id="term-extra-specs">extra specs</dt>
<dd>Specifies additional requirements when Compute determines where
to start a new instance. Examples include a minimum amount of network
bandwidth or a GPU.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-fakeldap">FakeLDAP</dt>
<dd>An easy method to create a local LDAP directory for testing
Identity and Compute. Requires Redis.</dd>
<dt id="term-fan-out-exchange">fan-out exchange</dt>
<dd>Within RabbitMQ and Compute, it is the messaging interface that
is used by the scheduler service to receive capability messages from
the compute, volume, and network nodes.</dd>
<dt id="term-federated-identity">federated identity</dt>
<dd>A method to establish trusts between identity providers and the
OpenStack cloud.</dd>
<dt id="term-fedora">Fedora</dt>
<dd>A Linux distribution compatible with OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-fibre-channel">Fibre Channel</dt>
<dd>Storage protocol similar in concept to TCP/IP; encapsulates SCSI
commands and data.</dd>
<dt id="term-fibre-channel-over-ethernet-fcoe">Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)</dt>
<dd>The fibre channel protocol tunneled within Ethernet.</dd>
<dt id="term-fill-first-scheduler">fill-first scheduler</dt>
<dd>The Compute scheduling method that attempts to fill a host with
VMs rather than starting new VMs on a variety of hosts.</dd>
<dt id="term-filter">filter</dt>
<dd>The step in the Compute scheduling process when hosts that
cannot run VMs are eliminated and not chosen.</dd>
<dt id="term-firewall">firewall</dt>
<dd>Used to restrict communications between hosts and/or nodes,
implemented in Compute using iptables, arptables, ip6tables, and
ebtables.</dd>
<dt id="term-firewall-as-a-service-fwaas">FireWall-as-a-Service (FWaaS)</dt>
<dd>A Networking extension that provides perimeter firewall
functionality.</dd>
<dt id="term-fixed-ip-address">fixed IP address</dt>
<dd>An IP address that is associated with the same instance each
time that instance boots, is generally not accessible to end users or
the public Internet, and is used for management of the
instance.</dd>
<dt id="term-flat-manager">Flat Manager</dt>
<dd>The Compute component that gives IP addresses to authorized
nodes and assumes DHCP, DNS, and routing configuration and services
are provided by something else.</dd>
<dt id="term-flat-mode-injection">flat mode injection</dt>
<dd>A Compute networking method where the OS network configuration
information is injected into the VM image before the instance
starts.</dd>
<dt id="term-flat-network">flat network</dt>
<dd>Virtual network type that uses neither VLANs nor tunnels to
segregate project traffic. Each flat network typically requires
a separate underlying physical interface defined by bridge
mappings. However, a flat network can contain multiple
subnets.</dd>
<dt id="term-flatdhcp-manager">FlatDHCP Manager</dt>
<dd>The Compute component that provides dnsmasq (DHCP, DNS, BOOTP,
TFTP) and radvd (routing) services.</dd>
<dt id="term-flavor">flavor</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a VM instance type.</dd>
<dt id="term-flavor-id">flavor ID</dt>
<dd>UUID for each Compute or Image service VM flavor or instance
type.</dd>
<dt id="term-floating-ip-address">floating IP address</dt>
<dd>An IP address that a project can associate with a VM so that the
instance has the same public IP address each time that it boots. You
create a pool of floating IP addresses and assign them to instances as
they are launched to maintain a consistent IP address for maintaining
DNS assignment.</dd>
<dt id="term-folsom">Folsom</dt>
<dd>A grouped release of projects related to OpenStack that came out
in the fall of 2012, the sixth release of OpenStack. It includes
Compute (nova), Object Storage (swift), Identity (keystone),
Networking (neutron), Image service (glance), and Volumes or Block
Storage (cinder).
Folsom is the code name for the sixth release of
OpenStack. The design summit took place in
San Francisco, California, US and Folsom is a nearby city.</dd>
<dt id="term-formpost">FormPost</dt>
<dd>Object Storage middleware that uploads (posts) an image through
a form on a web page.</dd>
<dt id="term-freezer">freezer</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-backup-restore-and-disaster-recovery-service-freezer"><span class="xref std std-term">Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-front-end">front end</dt>
<dd>The point where a user interacts with a service; can be an API
endpoint, the dashboard, or a command-line tool.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-gateway">gateway</dt>
<dd>An IP address, typically assigned to a router, that
passes network traffic between different networks.</dd>
<dt id="term-generic-receive-offload-gro">generic receive offload (GRO)</dt>
<dd>Feature of certain network interface drivers that
combines many smaller received packets into a large packet
before delivery to the kernel IP stack.</dd>
<dt id="term-generic-routing-encapsulation-gre">generic routing encapsulation (GRE)</dt>
<dd>Protocol that encapsulates a wide variety of network
layer protocols inside virtual point-to-point links.</dd>
<dt id="term-glance">glance</dt>
<dd>Codename for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-image-service-glance"><span class="xref std std-term">Image service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-glance-api-server">glance API server</dt>
<dd>Alternative name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-image-api"><span class="xref std std-term">Image API</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-glance-registry">glance registry</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for the Image service <a class="reference internal" href="#term-image-registry"><span class="xref std std-term">image registry</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-global-endpoint-template">global endpoint template</dt>
<dd>The Identity service endpoint template that contains services
available to all projects.</dd>
<dt id="term-glusterfs">GlusterFS</dt>
<dd>A file system designed to aggregate NAS hosts, compatible with
OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-gnocchi">gnocchi</dt>
<dd>Part of the OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-telemetry-service-telemetry"><span class="xref std std-term">Telemetry service</span></a>; provides an indexer and time-series
database.</dd>
<dt id="term-golden-image">golden image</dt>
<dd>A method of operating system installation where a finalized disk
image is created and then used by all nodes without
modification.</dd>
<dt id="term-governance-service-congress">Governance service (congress)</dt>
<dd>The project that provides Governance-as-a-Service across
any collection of cloud services in order to monitor,
enforce, and audit policy over dynamic infrastructure.</dd>
<dt id="term-graphic-interchange-format-gif">Graphic Interchange Format (GIF)</dt>
<dd>A type of image file that is commonly used for animated images
on web pages.</dd>
<dt id="term-graphics-processing-unit-gpu">Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)</dt>
<dd>Choosing a host based on the existence of a GPU is currently
unsupported in OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-green-threads">Green Threads</dt>
<dd>The cooperative threading model used by Python; reduces race
conditions and only context switches when specific library calls are
made. Each OpenStack service is its own thread.</dd>
<dt id="term-grizzly">Grizzly</dt>
<dd>The code name for the seventh release of
OpenStack. The design summit took place in
San Diego, California, US and Grizzly is an element of the state flag of
California.</dd>
<dt id="term-group">Group</dt>
<dd>An Identity v3 API entity. Represents a collection of users that is
owned by a specific domain.</dd>
<dt id="term-guest-os">guest OS</dt>
<dd>An operating system instance running under the control of a
hypervisor.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-hadoop">Hadoop</dt>
<dd>Apache Hadoop is an open source software framework that supports
data-intensive distributed applications.</dd>
<dt id="term-hadoop-distributed-file-system-hdfs">Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)</dt>
<dd>A distributed, highly fault-tolerant file system designed to run
on low-cost commodity hardware.</dd>
<dt id="term-handover">handover</dt>
<dd>An object state in Object Storage where a new replica of the
object is automatically created due to a drive failure.</dd>
<dt id="term-haproxy">HAProxy</dt>
<dd>Provides a load balancer for TCP and HTTP-based applications that
spreads requests across multiple servers.</dd>
<dt id="term-hard-reboot">hard reboot</dt>
<dd>A type of reboot where a physical or virtual power button is
pressed as opposed to a graceful, proper shutdown of the operating
system.</dd>
<dt id="term-havana">Havana</dt>
<dd>The code name for the eighth release of OpenStack. The
design summit took place in Portland, Oregon, US and Havana is
an unincorporated community in Oregon.</dd>
<dt id="term-health-monitor">health monitor</dt>
<dd>Determines whether back-end members of a VIP pool can
process a request. A pool can have several health monitors
associated with it. When a pool has several monitors
associated with it, all monitors check each member of the
pool. All monitors must declare a member to be healthy for
it to stay active.</dd>
<dt id="term-heat">heat</dt>
<dd>Codename for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-orchestration-service-heat"><span class="xref std std-term">Orchestration service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-heat-orchestration-template-hot">Heat Orchestration Template (HOT)</dt>
<dd>Heat input in the format native to OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-high-availability-ha">high availability (HA)</dt>
<dd>A high availability system design approach and associated
service implementation ensures that a prearranged level of
operational performance will be met during a contractual
measurement period. High availability systems seek to
minimize system downtime and data loss.</dd>
<dt id="term-horizon">horizon</dt>
<dd>Codename for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-dashboard-horizon"><span class="xref std std-term">Dashboard</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-horizon-plug-in">horizon plug-in</dt>
<dd>A plug-in for the OpenStack Dashboard (horizon).</dd>
<dt id="term-host">host</dt>
<dd>A physical computer, not a VM instance (node).</dd>
<dt id="term-host-aggregate">host aggregate</dt>
<dd>A method to further subdivide availability zones into hypervisor
pools, a collection of common hosts.</dd>
<dt id="term-host-bus-adapter-hba">Host Bus Adapter (HBA)</dt>
<dd>Device plugged into a PCI slot, such as a fibre channel or
network card.</dd>
<dt id="term-hybrid-cloud">hybrid cloud</dt>
<dd>A hybrid cloud is a composition of two or more clouds
(private, community or public) that remain distinct entities
but are bound together, offering the benefits of multiple
deployment models. Hybrid cloud can also mean the ability
to connect colocation, managed and/or dedicated services
with cloud resources.</dd>
<dt id="term-hyper-v">Hyper-V</dt>
<dd>One of the hypervisors supported by OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-hyperlink">hyperlink</dt>
<dd>Any kind of text that contains a link to some other site,
commonly found in documents where clicking on a word or words opens up
a different website.</dd>
<dt id="term-hypertext-transfer-protocol-http">Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)</dt>
<dd>An application protocol for distributed, collaborative,
hypermedia information systems. It is the foundation of data
communication for the World Wide Web. Hypertext is structured
text that uses logical links (hyperlinks) between nodes containing
text. HTTP is the protocol to exchange or transfer hypertext.</dd>
<dt id="term-hypertext-transfer-protocol-secure-https">Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)</dt>
<dd>An encrypted communications protocol for secure communication
over a computer network, with especially wide deployment on the
Internet. Technically, it is not a protocol in and of itself;
rather, it is the result of simply layering the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP) on top of the TLS or SSL protocol, thus adding the
security capabilities of TLS or SSL to standard HTTP communications.
Most OpenStack API endpoints and many inter-component communications
support HTTPS communication.</dd>
<dt id="term-hypervisor">hypervisor</dt>
<dd>Software that arbitrates and controls VM access to the actual
underlying hardware.</dd>
<dt id="term-hypervisor-pool">hypervisor pool</dt>
<dd>A collection of hypervisors grouped together through host
aggregates.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-icehouse">Icehouse</dt>
<dd>The code name for the ninth release of OpenStack. The
design summit took place in Hong Kong and Ice House is a
street in that city.</dd>
<dt id="term-id-number">ID number</dt>
<dd>Unique numeric ID associated with each user in Identity,
conceptually similar to a Linux or LDAP UID.</dd>
<dt id="term-identity-api">Identity API</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for the Identity service API.</dd>
<dt id="term-identity-back-end">Identity back end</dt>
<dd>The source used by Identity service to retrieve user
information; an OpenLDAP server, for example.</dd>
<dt id="term-identity-provider">identity provider</dt>
<dd>A directory service, which allows users to login with a user
name and password. It is a typical source of authentication
tokens.</dd>
<dt id="term-identity-service-keystone">Identity service (keystone)</dt>
<dd>The project that facilitates API client authentication, service
discovery, distributed multi-project authorization, and auditing.
It provides a central directory of users mapped to the OpenStack
services they can access. It also registers endpoints for OpenStack
services and acts as a common authentication system.</dd>
<dt id="term-identity-service-api">Identity service API</dt>
<dd>The API used to access the OpenStack Identity service provided
through keystone.</dd>
<dt id="term-ietf">IETF</dt>
<dd>Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open standards
organization that develops Internet standards, particularly the
standards pertaining to TCP/IP.</dd>
<dt id="term-image">image</dt>
<dd>A collection of files for a specific operating system (OS) that
you use to create or rebuild a server. OpenStack provides pre-built
images. You can also create custom images, or snapshots, from servers
that you have launched. Custom images can be used for data backups or
as “gold” images for additional servers.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-api">Image API</dt>
<dd>The Image service API endpoint for management of VM
images.
Processes client requests for VMs, updates Image service
metadata on the registry server, and communicates with the store
adapter to upload VM images from the back-end store.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-cache">image cache</dt>
<dd>Used by Image service to obtain images on the local host rather
than re-downloading them from the image server each time one is
requested.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-id">image ID</dt>
<dd>Combination of a URI and UUID used to access Image service VM
images through the image API.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-membership">image membership</dt>
<dd>A list of projects that can access a given VM image within Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-owner">image owner</dt>
<dd>The project who owns an Image service virtual machine
image.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-registry">image registry</dt>
<dd>A list of VM images that are available through Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-service-glance">Image service (glance)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack service that provide services and associated libraries
to store, browse, share, distribute and manage bootable disk images,
other data closely associated with initializing compute resources,
and metadata definitions.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-status">image status</dt>
<dd>The current status of a VM image in Image service, not to be
confused with the status of a running instance.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-store">image store</dt>
<dd>The back-end store used by Image service to store VM images,
options include Object Storage, locally mounted file system,
RADOS block devices, VMware datastore, or HTTP.</dd>
<dt id="term-image-uuid">image UUID</dt>
<dd>UUID used by Image service to uniquely identify each VM
image.</dd>
<dt id="term-incubated-project">incubated project</dt>
<dd>A community project may be elevated to this status and is then
promoted to a core project.</dd>
<dt id="term-infrastructure-optimization-service-watcher">Infrastructure Optimization service (watcher)</dt>
<dd>OpenStack project that aims to provide a flexible and scalable resource
optimization service for multi-project OpenStack-based clouds.</dd>
<dt id="term-infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas">Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)</dt>
<dd>IaaS is a provisioning model in which an organization outsources
physical components of a data center, such as storage, hardware,
servers, and networking components. A service provider owns the
equipment and is responsible for housing, operating and maintaining
it. The client typically pays on a per-use basis.
IaaS is a model for providing cloud services.</dd>
<dt id="term-ingress-filtering">ingress filtering</dt>
<dd>The process of filtering incoming network traffic. Supported by
Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-ini-format">INI format</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack configuration files use an INI format to
describe options and their values. It consists of sections
and key value pairs.</dd>
<dt id="term-injection">injection</dt>
<dd>The process of putting a file into a virtual machine image
before the instance is started.</dd>
<dt id="term-input-output-operations-per-second-iops">Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS)</dt>
<dd>IOPS are a common performance measurement used to benchmark computer
storage devices like hard disk drives, solid state drives, and
storage area networks.</dd>
<dt id="term-instance">instance</dt>
<dd>A running VM, or a VM in a known state such as suspended, that
can be used like a hardware server.</dd>
<dt id="term-instance-id">instance ID</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for instance UUID.</dd>
<dt id="term-instance-state">instance state</dt>
<dd>The current state of a guest VM image.</dd>
<dt id="term-instance-tunnels-network">instance tunnels network</dt>
<dd>A network segment used for instance traffic tunnels
between compute nodes and the network node.</dd>
<dt id="term-instance-type">instance type</dt>
<dd>Describes the parameters of the various virtual machine images
that are available to users; includes parameters such as CPU, storage,
and memory. Alternative term for flavor.</dd>
<dt id="term-instance-type-id">instance type ID</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a flavor ID.</dd>
<dt id="term-instance-uuid">instance UUID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID assigned to each guest VM instance.</dd>
<dt id="term-intelligent-platform-management-interface-ipmi">Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)</dt>
<dd>IPMI is a standardized computer system interface used by system
administrators for out-of-band management of computer systems and
monitoring of their operation. In layman’s terms, it is a way to
manage a computer using a direct network connection, whether it is
turned on or not; connecting to the hardware rather than an operating
system or login shell.</dd>
<dt id="term-interface">interface</dt>
<dd>A physical or virtual device that provides connectivity
to another device or medium.</dd>
<dt id="term-interface-id">interface ID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID for a Networking VIF or vNIC in the form of a
UUID.</dd>
<dt id="term-internet-control-message-protocol-icmp">Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)</dt>
<dd>A network protocol used by network devices for control messages.
For example, <strong class="command">ping</strong> uses ICMP to test
connectivity.</dd>
<dt id="term-internet-protocol-ip">Internet protocol (IP)</dt>
<dd>Principal communications protocol in the internet protocol
suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries.</dd>
<dt id="term-internet-service-provider-isp">Internet Service Provider (ISP)</dt>
<dd>Any business that provides Internet access to individuals or
businesses.</dd>
<dt id="term-internet-small-computer-system-interface-iscsi">Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)</dt>
<dd>Storage protocol that encapsulates SCSI frames for transport
over IP networks.
Supported by Compute, Object Storage, and Image service.</dd>
<dt id="term-ip-address">IP address</dt>
<dd>Number that is unique to every computer system on the Internet.
Two versions of the Internet Protocol (IP) are in use for addresses:
IPv4 and IPv6.</dd>
<dt id="term-ip-address-management-ipam">IP Address Management (IPAM)</dt>
<dd>The process of automating IP address allocation, deallocation,
and management. Currently provided by Compute, melange, and
Networking.</dd>
<dt id="term-ip6tables">ip6tables</dt>
<dd>Tool used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IPv6
packet filter rules in the Linux kernel. In OpenStack Compute,
ip6tables is used along with arptables, ebtables, and iptables to
create firewalls for both nodes and VMs.</dd>
<dt id="term-ipset">ipset</dt>
<dd>Extension to iptables that allows creation of firewall rules
that match entire “sets” of IP addresses simultaneously. These
sets reside in indexed data structures to increase efficiency,
particularly on systems with a large quantity of rules.</dd>
<dt id="term-iptables">iptables</dt>
<dd>Used along with arptables and ebtables, iptables create
firewalls in Compute. iptables are the tables provided by the Linux
kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the
chains and rules it stores. Different kernel modules and programs are
currently used for different protocols: iptables applies to IPv4,
ip6tables to IPv6, arptables to ARP, and ebtables to Ethernet frames.
Requires root privilege to manipulate.</dd>
<dt id="term-ironic">ironic</dt>
<dd>Codename for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-bare-metal-service-ironic"><span class="xref std std-term">Bare Metal service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-iscsi-qualified-name-iqn">iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN)</dt>
<dd>IQN is the format most commonly used for iSCSI names, which uniquely
identify nodes in an iSCSI network.
All IQNs follow the pattern iqn.yyyy-mm.domain:identifier, where
‘yyyy-mm’ is the year and month in which the domain was registered,
‘domain’ is the reversed domain name of the issuing organization, and
‘identifier’ is an optional string which makes each IQN under the same
domain unique. For example, ‘iqn.2015-10.org.openstack.408ae959bce1’.</dd>
<dt id="term-iso9660">ISO9660</dt>
<dd>One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-itsec">itsec</dt>
<dd>A default role in the Compute RBAC system that can quarantine an
instance in any project.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-java">Java</dt>
<dd>A programming language that is used to create systems that
involve more than one computer by way of a network.</dd>
<dt id="term-javascript">JavaScript</dt>
<dd>A scripting language that is used to build web pages.</dd>
<dt id="term-javascript-object-notation-json">JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)</dt>
<dd>One of the supported response formats in OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-jumbo-frame">jumbo frame</dt>
<dd>Feature in modern Ethernet networks that supports frames up to
approximately 9000 bytes.</dd>
<dt id="term-juno">Juno</dt>
<dd>The code name for the tenth release of OpenStack. The
design summit took place in Atlanta, Georgia, US and Juno is
an unincorporated community in Georgia.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-kerberos">Kerberos</dt>
<dd>A network authentication protocol which works on the basis of
tickets. Kerberos allows nodes communication over a non-secure
network, and allows nodes to prove their identity to one another in a
secure manner.</dd>
<dt id="term-kernel-based-vm-kvm">kernel-based VM (KVM)</dt>
<dd>An OpenStack-supported hypervisor. KVM is a full
virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing
virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V), ARM, IBM
Power, and IBM zSeries. It consists of a loadable kernel
module, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure
and a processor specific module.</dd>
<dt id="term-key-manager-service-barbican">Key Manager service (barbican)</dt>
<dd>The project that produces a secret storage and
generation system capable of providing key management for
services wishing to enable encryption features.</dd>
<dt id="term-keystone">keystone</dt>
<dd>Codename of the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-identity-service-keystone"><span class="xref std std-term">Identity service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-kickstart">Kickstart</dt>
<dd>A tool to automate system configuration and installation on Red
Hat, Fedora, and CentOS-based Linux distributions.</dd>
<dt id="term-kilo">Kilo</dt>
<dd>The code name for the eleventh release of OpenStack. The
design summit took place in Paris, France. Due to delays in the name
selection, the release was known only as K. Because <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">k</span></code> is the
unit symbol for kilo and the kilogram reference artifact is stored
near Paris in the Pavillon de Breteuil in Sèvres, the community
chose Kilo as the release name.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-large-object">large object</dt>
<dd>An object within Object Storage that is larger than 5 GB.</dd>
<dt id="term-launchpad">Launchpad</dt>
<dd>The collaboration site for OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-layer-2-l2-agent">Layer-2 (L2) agent</dt>
<dd>OpenStack Networking agent that provides layer-2
connectivity for virtual networks.</dd>
<dt id="term-layer-2-network">Layer-2 network</dt>
<dd>Term used in the OSI network architecture for the data link
layer. The data link layer is responsible for media access
control, flow control and detecting and possibly correcting
errors that may occur in the physical layer.</dd>
<dt id="term-layer-3-l3-agent">Layer-3 (L3) agent</dt>
<dd>OpenStack Networking agent that provides layer-3
(routing) services for virtual networks.</dd>
<dt id="term-layer-3-network">Layer-3 network</dt>
<dd>Term used in the OSI network architecture for the network
layer. The network layer is responsible for packet
forwarding including routing from one node to another.</dd>
<dt id="term-liberty">Liberty</dt>
<dd>The code name for the twelfth release of OpenStack. The
design summit took place in Vancouver, Canada and Liberty is
the name of a village in the Canadian province of
Saskatchewan.</dd>
<dt id="term-libvirt">libvirt</dt>
<dd>Virtualization API library used by OpenStack to interact with
many of its supported hypervisors.</dd>
<dt id="term-lightweight-directory-access-protocol-ldap">Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)</dt>
<dd>An application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed
directory information services over an IP network.</dd>
<dt id="term-linux">Linux</dt>
<dd>Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of
free and open-source software development and distribution.</dd>
<dt id="term-linux-bridge">Linux bridge</dt>
<dd>Software that enables multiple VMs to share a single physical
NIC within Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-linux-bridge-neutron-plug-in">Linux Bridge neutron plug-in</dt>
<dd>Enables a Linux bridge to understand a Networking port,
interface attachment, and other abstractions.</dd>
<dt id="term-linux-containers-lxc">Linux containers (LXC)</dt>
<dd>An OpenStack-supported hypervisor.</dd>
<dt id="term-live-migration">live migration</dt>
<dd>The ability within Compute to move running virtual machine
instances from one host to another with only a small service
interruption during switchover.</dd>
<dt id="term-load-balancer">load balancer</dt>
<dd>A load balancer is a logical device that belongs to a cloud
account. It is used to distribute workloads between multiple back-end
systems or services, based on the criteria defined as part of its
configuration.</dd>
<dt id="term-load-balancing">load balancing</dt>
<dd>The process of spreading client requests between two or more
nodes to improve performance and availability.</dd>
<dt id="term-load-balancer-as-a-service-lbaas">Load-Balancer-as-a-Service (LBaaS)</dt>
<dd>Enables Networking to distribute incoming requests evenly
between designated instances.</dd>
<dt id="term-load-balancing-service-octavia">Load-balancing service (octavia)</dt>
<dd>The project that aims to provide scalable, on demand, self service
access to load-balancer services, in technology-agnostic manner.</dd>
<dt id="term-logical-volume-manager-lvm">Logical Volume Manager (LVM)</dt>
<dd>Provides a method of allocating space on mass-storage
devices that is more flexible than conventional partitioning
schemes.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-magnum">magnum</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-container-infrastructure-management-service-magnum"><span class="xref std std-term">Containers Infrastructure Management
service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-management-api">management API</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for an admin API.</dd>
<dt id="term-management-network">management network</dt>
<dd>A network segment used for administration, not accessible to the
public Internet.</dd>
<dt id="term-manager">manager</dt>
<dd>Logical groupings of related code, such as the Block Storage
volume manager or network manager.</dd>
<dt id="term-manifest">manifest</dt>
<dd>Used to track segments of a large object within Object
Storage.</dd>
<dt id="term-manifest-object">manifest object</dt>
<dd>A special Object Storage object that contains the manifest for a
large object.</dd>
<dt id="term-manila">manila</dt>
<dd>Codename for OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-shared-file-systems-service-manila"><span class="xref std std-term">Shared File Systems service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-manila-share">manila-share</dt>
<dd>Responsible for managing Shared File System Service devices, specifically
the back-end devices.</dd>
<dt id="term-maximum-transmission-unit-mtu">maximum transmission unit (MTU)</dt>
<dd>Maximum frame or packet size for a particular network
medium. Typically 1500 bytes for Ethernet networks.</dd>
<dt id="term-mechanism-driver">mechanism driver</dt>
<dd>A driver for the Modular Layer 2 (ML2) neutron plug-in that
provides layer-2 connectivity for virtual instances. A
single OpenStack installation can use multiple mechanism
drivers.</dd>
<dt id="term-melange">melange</dt>
<dd>Project name for OpenStack Network Information Service. To be
merged with Networking.</dd>
<dt id="term-membership">membership</dt>
<dd>The association between an Image service VM image and a project.
Enables images to be shared with specified projects.</dd>
<dt id="term-membership-list">membership list</dt>
<dd>A list of projects that can access a given VM image within Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-memcached">memcached</dt>
<dd>A distributed memory object caching system that is used by
Object Storage for caching.</dd>
<dt id="term-memory-overcommit">memory overcommit</dt>
<dd>The ability to start new VM instances based on the actual memory
usage of a host, as opposed to basing the decision on the amount of
RAM each running instance thinks it has available. Also known as RAM
overcommit.</dd>
<dt id="term-message-broker">message broker</dt>
<dd>The software package used to provide AMQP messaging capabilities
within Compute. Default package is RabbitMQ.</dd>
<dt id="term-message-bus">message bus</dt>
<dd>The main virtual communication line used by all AMQP messages
for inter-cloud communications within Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-message-queue">message queue</dt>
<dd>Passes requests from clients to the appropriate workers and
returns the output to the client after the job completes.</dd>
<dt id="term-message-service-zaqar">Message service (zaqar)</dt>
<dd>The project that provides a messaging service that affords a
variety of distributed application patterns in an efficient,
scalable and highly available manner, and to create and maintain
associated Python libraries and documentation.</dd>
<dt id="term-meta-data-server-mds">Meta-Data Server (MDS)</dt>
<dd>Stores CephFS metadata.</dd>
<dt id="term-metadata-agent">Metadata agent</dt>
<dd>OpenStack Networking agent that provides metadata
services for instances.</dd>
<dt id="term-migration">migration</dt>
<dd>The process of moving a VM instance from one host to
another.</dd>
<dt id="term-mistral">mistral</dt>
<dd>Code name for <a class="reference internal" href="#term-workflow-service-mistral"><span class="xref std std-term">Workflow service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-mitaka">Mitaka</dt>
<dd>The code name for the thirteenth release of OpenStack.
The design summit took place in Tokyo, Japan. Mitaka
is a city in Tokyo.</dd>
<dt id="term-modular-layer-2-ml2-neutron-plug-in">Modular Layer 2 (ML2) neutron plug-in</dt>
<dd>Can concurrently use multiple layer-2 networking technologies,
such as 802.1Q and VXLAN, in Networking.</dd>
<dt id="term-monasca">monasca</dt>
<dd>Codename for OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-monitoring-monasca"><span class="xref std std-term">Monitoring</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-monitor-lbaas">Monitor (LBaaS)</dt>
<dd>LBaaS feature that provides availability monitoring using the
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ping</span></code> command, TCP, and HTTP/HTTPS GET.</dd>
<dt id="term-monitor-mon">Monitor (Mon)</dt>
<dd>A Ceph component that communicates with external clients, checks
data state and consistency, and performs quorum functions.</dd>
<dt id="term-monitoring-monasca">Monitoring (monasca)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack service that provides a multi-project, highly scalable,
performant, fault-tolerant monitoring-as-a-service solution for metrics,
complex event processing and logging. To build an extensible platform for
advanced monitoring services that can be used by both operators and
projects to gain operational insight and visibility, ensuring availability
and stability.</dd>
<dt id="term-multi-factor-authentication">multi-factor authentication</dt>
<dd>Authentication method that uses two or more credentials, such as
a password and a private key. Currently not supported in
Identity.</dd>
<dt id="term-multi-host">multi-host</dt>
<dd>High-availability mode for legacy (nova) networking.
Each compute node handles NAT and DHCP and acts as a gateway
for all of the VMs on it. A networking failure on one compute
node doesn’t affect VMs on other compute nodes.</dd>
<dt id="term-multinic">multinic</dt>
<dd>Facility in Compute that allows each virtual machine instance to
have more than one VIF connected to it.</dd>
<dt id="term-murano">murano</dt>
<dd>Codename for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-application-catalog-service-murano"><span class="xref std std-term">Application Catalog service</span></a>.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-nebula">Nebula</dt>
<dd>Released as open source by NASA in 2010 and is the basis for
Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-netadmin">netadmin</dt>
<dd>One of the default roles in the Compute RBAC system. Enables the
user to allocate publicly accessible IP addresses to instances and
change firewall rules.</dd>
<dt id="term-netapp-volume-driver">NetApp volume driver</dt>
<dd>Enables Compute to communicate with NetApp storage devices
through the NetApp OnCommand
Provisioning Manager.</dd>
<dt id="term-network">network</dt>
<dd>A virtual network that provides connectivity between entities.
For example, a collection of virtual ports that share network
connectivity. In Networking terminology, a network is always a layer-2
network.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-address-translation-nat">Network Address Translation (NAT)</dt>
<dd>Process of modifying IP address information while in transit.
Supported by Compute and Networking.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-controller">network controller</dt>
<dd>A Compute daemon that orchestrates the network configuration of
nodes, including IP addresses, VLANs, and bridging. Also manages
routing for both public and private networks.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-file-system-nfs">Network File System (NFS)</dt>
<dd>A method for making file systems available over the network.
Supported by OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-id">network ID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID assigned to each network segment within Networking.
Same as network UUID.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-manager">network manager</dt>
<dd>The Compute component that manages various network components,
such as firewall rules, IP address allocation, and so on.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-namespace">network namespace</dt>
<dd>Linux kernel feature that provides independent virtual
networking instances on a single host with separate routing
tables and interfaces. Similar to virtual routing and forwarding
(VRF) services on physical network equipment.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-node">network node</dt>
<dd>Any compute node that runs the network worker daemon.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-segment">network segment</dt>
<dd>Represents a virtual, isolated OSI layer-2 subnet in
Networking.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-service-header-nsh">Network Service Header (NSH)</dt>
<dd>Provides a mechanism for metadata exchange along the
instantiated service path.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-time-protocol-ntp">Network Time Protocol (NTP)</dt>
<dd>Method of keeping a clock for a host or node correct via
communication with a trusted, accurate time source.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-uuid">network UUID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID for a Networking network segment.</dd>
<dt id="term-network-worker">network worker</dt>
<dd>The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">nova-network</span></code> worker daemon; provides
services such as giving an IP address to a booting nova
instance.</dd>
<dt id="term-networking-api-neutron-api">Networking API (Neutron API)</dt>
<dd>API used to access OpenStack Networking. Provides an extensible
architecture to enable custom plug-in creation.</dd>
<dt id="term-networking-service-neutron">Networking service (neutron)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack project which implements services and associated
libraries to provide on-demand, scalable, and technology-agnostic
network abstraction.</dd>
<dt id="term-neutron">neutron</dt>
<dd>Codename for OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-networking-service-neutron"><span class="xref std std-term">Networking service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-neutron-api">neutron API</dt>
<dd>An alternative name for <a class="reference internal" href="#term-networking-api-neutron-api"><span class="xref std std-term">Networking API</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-neutron-manager">neutron manager</dt>
<dd>Enables Compute and Networking integration, which enables
Networking to perform network management for guest VMs.</dd>
<dt id="term-neutron-plug-in">neutron plug-in</dt>
<dd>Interface within Networking that enables organizations to create
custom plug-ins for advanced features, such as QoS, ACLs, or
IDS.</dd>
<dt id="term-newton">Newton</dt>
<dd>The code name for the fourteenth release of OpenStack. The
design summit took place in Austin, Texas, US. The
release is named after “Newton House” which is located at
1013 E. Ninth St., Austin, TX. which is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.</dd>
<dt id="term-nexenta-volume-driver">Nexenta volume driver</dt>
<dd>Provides support for NexentaStor devices in Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-nfv-orchestration-service-tacker">NFV Orchestration Service (tacker)</dt>
<dd>OpenStack service that aims to implement Network Function Virtualization
(NFV) orchestration services and libraries for end-to-end life-cycle
management of network services and Virtual Network Functions (VNFs).</dd>
<dt id="term-nginx">Nginx</dt>
<dd>An HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic
TCP/UDP proxy server.</dd>
<dt id="term-no-ack">No ACK</dt>
<dd>Disables server-side message acknowledgment in the Compute
RabbitMQ. Increases performance but decreases reliability.</dd>
<dt id="term-node">node</dt>
<dd>A VM instance that runs on a host.</dd>
<dt id="term-non-durable-exchange">non-durable exchange</dt>
<dd>Message exchange that is cleared when the service restarts. Its
data is not written to persistent storage.</dd>
<dt id="term-non-durable-queue">non-durable queue</dt>
<dd>Message queue that is cleared when the service restarts. Its
data is not written to persistent storage.</dd>
<dt id="term-non-persistent-volume">non-persistent volume</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for an ephemeral volume.</dd>
<dt id="term-north-south-traffic">north-south traffic</dt>
<dd>Network traffic between a user or client (north) and a
server (south), or traffic into the cloud (south) and
out of the cloud (north). See also east-west traffic.</dd>
<dt id="term-nova">nova</dt>
<dd>Codename for OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-compute-service-nova"><span class="xref std std-term">Compute service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-nova-api">Nova API</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-compute-api-nova-api"><span class="xref std std-term">Compute API</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-nova-network">nova-network</dt>
<dd>A Compute component that manages IP address allocation,
firewalls, and other network-related tasks. This is the legacy
networking option and an alternative to Networking.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-object">object</dt>
<dd>A BLOB of data held by Object Storage; can be in any
format.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-auditor">object auditor</dt>
<dd>Opens all objects for an object server and verifies the MD5
hash, size, and metadata for each object.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-expiration">object expiration</dt>
<dd>A configurable option within Object Storage to automatically
delete objects after a specified amount of time has passed or a
certain date is reached.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-hash">object hash</dt>
<dd>Unique ID for an Object Storage object.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-path-hash">object path hash</dt>
<dd>Used by Object Storage to determine the location of an object in
the ring. Maps objects to partitions.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-replicator">object replicator</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage component that copies an object to remote
partitions for fault tolerance.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-server">object server</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage component that is responsible for managing
objects.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-storage-api">Object Storage API</dt>
<dd>API used to access OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-object-storage-service-swift"><span class="xref std std-term">Object Storage</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-storage-device-osd">Object Storage Device (OSD)</dt>
<dd>The Ceph storage daemon.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-storage-service-swift">Object Storage service (swift)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack core project that provides eventually consistent
and redundant storage and retrieval of fixed digital content.</dd>
<dt id="term-object-versioning">object versioning</dt>
<dd>Allows a user to set a flag on an <a class="reference internal" href="#term-object-storage-service-swift"><span class="xref std std-term">Object Storage</span></a> container so that all objects within the container are
versioned.</dd>
<dt id="term-ocata">Ocata</dt>
<dd>The code name for the fifteenth release of OpenStack. The
design summit will take place in Barcelona, Spain. Ocata is
a beach north of Barcelona.</dd>
<dt id="term-octavia">Octavia</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-load-balancing-service-octavia"><span class="xref std std-term">Load-balancing service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-oldie">Oldie</dt>
<dd>Term for an <a class="reference internal" href="#term-object-storage-service-swift"><span class="xref std std-term">Object Storage</span></a>
process that runs for a long time. Can indicate a hung process.</dd>
<dt id="term-open-cloud-computing-interface-occi">Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI)</dt>
<dd>A standardized interface for managing compute, data, and network
resources, currently unsupported in OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-open-virtualization-format-ovf">Open Virtualization Format (OVF)</dt>
<dd>Standard for packaging VM images. Supported in OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-open-vswitch">Open vSwitch</dt>
<dd>Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual
switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. It
is designed to enable massive network automation through
programmatic extension, while still supporting standard
management interfaces and protocols (for example NetFlow,
sFlow, SPAN, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag).</dd>
<dt id="term-open-vswitch-ovs-agent">Open vSwitch (OVS) agent</dt>
<dd>Provides an interface to the underlying Open vSwitch service for
the Networking plug-in.</dd>
<dt id="term-open-vswitch-neutron-plug-in">Open vSwitch neutron plug-in</dt>
<dd>Provides support for Open vSwitch in Networking.</dd>
<dt id="term-openldap">OpenLDAP</dt>
<dd>An open source LDAP server. Supported by both Compute and
Identity.</dd>
<dt id="term-openstack">OpenStack</dt>
<dd>OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools
of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data
center, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators
control while empowering their users to provision resources through a
web interface. OpenStack is an open source project licensed under the
Apache License 2.0.</dd>
<dt id="term-openstack-code-name">OpenStack code name</dt>
<dd>Each OpenStack release has a code name. Code names ascend in
alphabetical order: Austin, Bexar, Cactus, Diablo, Essex,
Folsom, Grizzly, Havana, Icehouse, Juno, Kilo, Liberty,
Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike, Queens, and Rocky.
Code names are cities or counties near where the
corresponding OpenStack design summit took place. An
exception, called the Waldon exception, is granted to
elements of the state flag that sound especially cool. Code
names are chosen by popular vote.</dd>
<dt id="term-opensuse">openSUSE</dt>
<dd>A Linux distribution that is compatible with OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-operator">operator</dt>
<dd>The person responsible for planning and maintaining an OpenStack
installation.</dd>
<dt id="term-optional-service">optional service</dt>
<dd>An official OpenStack service defined as optional by
DefCore Committee. Currently, consists of
Dashboard (horizon), Telemetry service (Telemetry),
Orchestration service (heat), Database service (trove),
Bare Metal service (ironic), and so on.</dd>
<dt id="term-orchestration-service-heat">Orchestration service (heat)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack service which orchestrates composite cloud
applications using a declarative template format through
an OpenStack-native REST API.</dd>
<dt id="term-orphan">orphan</dt>
<dd>In the context of Object Storage, this is a process that is not
terminated after an upgrade, restart, or reload of the service.</dd>
<dt id="term-oslo">Oslo</dt>
<dd>Codename for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-common-libraries-oslo"><span class="xref std std-term">Common Libraries project</span></a>.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-panko">panko</dt>
<dd>Part of the OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-telemetry-service-telemetry"><span class="xref std std-term">Telemetry service</span></a>; provides event storage.</dd>
<dt id="term-parent-cell">parent cell</dt>
<dd>If a requested resource, such as CPU time, disk storage, or
memory, is not available in the parent cell, the request is forwarded
to associated child cells.</dd>
<dt id="term-partition">partition</dt>
<dd>A unit of storage within Object Storage used to store objects.
It exists on top of devices and is replicated for fault
tolerance.</dd>
<dt id="term-partition-index">partition index</dt>
<dd>Contains the locations of all Object Storage partitions within
the ring.</dd>
<dt id="term-partition-shift-value">partition shift value</dt>
<dd>Used by Object Storage to determine which partition data should
reside on.</dd>
<dt id="term-path-mtu-discovery-pmtud">path MTU discovery (PMTUD)</dt>
<dd>Mechanism in IP networks to detect end-to-end MTU and adjust
packet size accordingly.</dd>
<dt id="term-pause">pause</dt>
<dd>A VM state where no changes occur (no changes in memory, network
communications stop, etc); the VM is frozen but not shut down.</dd>
<dt id="term-pci-passthrough">PCI passthrough</dt>
<dd>Gives guest VMs exclusive access to a PCI device. Currently
supported in OpenStack Havana and later releases.</dd>
<dt id="term-persistent-message">persistent message</dt>
<dd>A message that is stored both in memory and on disk. The message
is not lost after a failure or restart.</dd>
<dt id="term-persistent-volume">persistent volume</dt>
<dd>Changes to these types of disk volumes are saved.</dd>
<dt id="term-personality-file">personality file</dt>
<dd>A file used to customize a Compute instance. It can be used to
inject SSH keys or a specific network configuration.</dd>
<dt id="term-pike">Pike</dt>
<dd>The code name for the sixteenth release of OpenStack. The design
summit will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, US. The release
is named after the Massachusetts Turnpike, abbreviated commonly
as the Mass Pike, which is the easternmost stretch of
Interstate 90.</dd>
<dt id="term-platform-as-a-service-paas">Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)</dt>
<dd>Provides to the consumer an operating system and, often, a
language runtime and libraries (collectively, the “platform”)
upon which they can run their own application code, without
providing any control over the underlying infrastructure.
Examples of Platform-as-a-Service providers include Cloud Foundry
and OpenShift.</dd>
<dt id="term-plug-in">plug-in</dt>
<dd>Software component providing the actual implementation for
Networking APIs, or for Compute APIs, depending on the context.</dd>
<dt id="term-policy-service">policy service</dt>
<dd>Component of Identity that provides a rule-management
interface and a rule-based authorization engine.</dd>
<dt id="term-policy-based-routing-pbr">policy-based routing (PBR)</dt>
<dd>Provides a mechanism to implement packet forwarding and routing
according to the policies defined by the network administrator.</dd>
<dt id="term-pool">pool</dt>
<dd>A logical set of devices, such as web servers, that you
group together to receive and process traffic. The load
balancing function chooses which member of the pool handles
the new requests or connections received on the VIP
address. Each VIP has one pool.</dd>
<dt id="term-pool-member">pool member</dt>
<dd>An application that runs on the back-end server in a
load-balancing system.</dd>
<dt id="term-port">port</dt>
<dd>A virtual network port within Networking; VIFs / vNICs are
connected to a port.</dd>
<dt id="term-port-uuid">port UUID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID for a Networking port.</dd>
<dt id="term-preseed">preseed</dt>
<dd>A tool to automate system configuration and installation on
Debian-based Linux distributions.</dd>
<dt id="term-private-image">private image</dt>
<dd>An Image service VM image that is only available to specified
projects.</dd>
<dt id="term-private-ip-address">private IP address</dt>
<dd>An IP address used for management and administration, not
available to the public Internet.</dd>
<dt id="term-private-network">private network</dt>
<dd>The Network Controller provides virtual networks to enable
compute servers to interact with each other and with the public
network. All machines must have a public and private network
interface. A private network interface can be a flat or VLAN network
interface. A flat network interface is controlled by the
flat_interface with flat managers. A VLAN network interface is
controlled by the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">vlan_interface</span></code> option with VLAN
managers.</dd>
<dt id="term-project">project</dt>
<dd>Projects represent the base unit of “ownership” in OpenStack,
in that all resources in OpenStack should be owned by a specific project.
In OpenStack Identity, a project must be owned by a specific domain.</dd>
<dt id="term-project-id">project ID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID assigned to each project by the Identity service.</dd>
<dt id="term-project-vpn">project VPN</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a cloudpipe.</dd>
<dt id="term-promiscuous-mode">promiscuous mode</dt>
<dd>Causes the network interface to pass all traffic it
receives to the host rather than passing only the frames
addressed to it.</dd>
<dt id="term-protected-property">protected property</dt>
<dd>Generally, extra properties on an Image service image to
which only cloud administrators have access. Limits which user
roles can perform CRUD operations on that property. The cloud
administrator can configure any image property as
protected.</dd>
<dt id="term-provider">provider</dt>
<dd>An administrator who has access to all hosts and
instances.</dd>
<dt id="term-proxy-node">proxy node</dt>
<dd>A node that provides the Object Storage proxy service.</dd>
<dt id="term-proxy-server">proxy server</dt>
<dd>Users of Object Storage interact with the service through the
proxy server, which in turn looks up the location of the requested
data within the ring and returns the results to the user.</dd>
<dt id="term-public-api">public API</dt>
<dd>An API endpoint used for both service-to-service communication
and end-user interactions.</dd>
<dt id="term-public-image">public image</dt>
<dd>An Image service VM image that is available to all
projects.</dd>
<dt id="term-public-ip-address">public IP address</dt>
<dd>An IP address that is accessible to end-users.</dd>
<dt id="term-public-key-authentication">public key authentication</dt>
<dd>Authentication method that uses keys rather than
passwords.</dd>
<dt id="term-public-network">public network</dt>
<dd>The Network Controller provides virtual networks to enable
compute servers to interact with each other and with the public
network. All machines must have a public and private network
interface. The public network interface is controlled by the
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">public_interface</span></code> option.</dd>
<dt id="term-puppet">Puppet</dt>
<dd>An operating system configuration-management tool supported by
OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-python">Python</dt>
<dd>Programming language used extensively in OpenStack.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-qemu-copy-on-write-2-qcow2">QEMU Copy On Write 2 (QCOW2)</dt>
<dd>One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-qpid">Qpid</dt>
<dd>Message queue software supported by OpenStack; an alternative to
RabbitMQ.</dd>
<dt id="term-quality-of-service-qos">Quality of Service (QoS)</dt>
<dd>The ability to guarantee certain network or storage requirements to
satisfy a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between an application provider
and end users.
Typically includes performance requirements like networking bandwidth,
latency, jitter correction, and reliability as well as storage
performance in Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS), throttling
agreements, and performance expectations at peak load.</dd>
<dt id="term-quarantine">quarantine</dt>
<dd>If Object Storage finds objects, containers, or accounts that
are corrupt, they are placed in this state, are not replicated, cannot
be read by clients, and a correct copy is re-replicated.</dd>
<dt id="term-queens">Queens</dt>
<dd>The code name for the seventeenth release of OpenStack. The
design summit will take place in Sydney, Australia. The release
is named after the Queens Pound river in the South Coast region
of New South Wales.</dd>
<dt id="term-quick-emulator-qemu">Quick EMUlator (QEMU)</dt>
<dd>QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and
virtualizer.
One of the hypervisors supported by OpenStack, generally used
for development purposes.</dd>
<dt id="term-quota">quota</dt>
<dd>In Compute and Block Storage, the ability to set resource limits
on a per-project basis.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dl class="glossary docutils">
<dt id="term-rabbitmq">RabbitMQ</dt>
<dd>The default message queue software used by OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-rackspace-cloud-files">Rackspace Cloud Files</dt>
<dd>Released as open source by Rackspace in 2010; the basis for
Object Storage.</dd>
<dt id="term-rados-block-device-rbd">RADOS Block Device (RBD)</dt>
<dd>Ceph component that enables a Linux block device to be striped
over multiple distributed data stores.</dd>
<dt id="term-radvd">radvd</dt>
<dd>The router advertisement daemon, used by the Compute VLAN
manager and FlatDHCP manager to provide routing services for VM
instances.</dd>
<dt id="term-rally">rally</dt>
<dd>Codename for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-benchmark-service-rally"><span class="xref std std-term">Benchmark service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-ram-filter">RAM filter</dt>
<dd>The Compute setting that enables or disables RAM
overcommitment.</dd>
<dt id="term-ram-overcommit">RAM overcommit</dt>
<dd>The ability to start new VM instances based on the actual memory
usage of a host, as opposed to basing the decision on the amount of
RAM each running instance thinks it has available. Also known as
memory overcommit.</dd>
<dt id="term-rate-limit">rate limit</dt>
<dd>Configurable option within Object Storage to limit database
writes on a per-account and/or per-container basis.</dd>
<dt id="term-raw">raw</dt>
<dd>One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image service; an
unstructured disk image.</dd>
<dt id="term-rebalance">rebalance</dt>
<dd>The process of distributing Object Storage partitions across all
drives in the ring; used during initial ring creation and after ring
reconfiguration.</dd>
<dt id="term-reboot">reboot</dt>
<dd>Either a soft or hard reboot of a server. With a soft reboot,
the operating system is signaled to restart, which enables a graceful
shutdown of all processes. A hard reboot is the equivalent of power
cycling the server. The virtualization platform should ensure that the
reboot action has completed successfully, even in cases in which the
underlying domain/VM is paused or halted/stopped.</dd>
<dt id="term-rebuild">rebuild</dt>
<dd>Removes all data on the server and replaces it with the
specified image. Server ID and IP addresses remain the same.</dd>
<dt id="term-recon">Recon</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage component that collects meters.</dd>
<dt id="term-record">record</dt>
<dd>Belongs to a particular domain and is used to specify
information about the domain.
There are several types of DNS records. Each record type contains
particular information used to describe the purpose of that record.
Examples include mail exchange (MX) records, which specify the mail
server for a particular domain; and name server (NS) records, which
specify the authoritative name servers for a domain.</dd>
<dt id="term-record-id">record ID</dt>
<dd>A number within a database that is incremented each time a
change is made. Used by Object Storage when replicating.</dd>
<dt id="term-red-hat-enterprise-linux-rhel">Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)</dt>
<dd>A Linux distribution that is compatible with OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-reference-architecture">reference architecture</dt>
<dd>A recommended architecture for an OpenStack cloud.</dd>
<dt id="term-region">region</dt>
<dd>A discrete OpenStack environment with dedicated API endpoints
that typically shares only the Identity (keystone) with other
regions.</dd>
<dt id="term-registry">registry</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for the Image service registry.</dd>
<dt id="term-registry-server">registry server</dt>
<dd>An Image service that provides VM image metadata information to
clients.</dd>
<dt id="term-reliable-autonomic-distributed-object-store">Reliable, Autonomic Distributed Object Store</dt>
<dd><p class="first">(RADOS)</p>
<p class="last">A collection of components that provides object storage within
Ceph. Similar to OpenStack Object Storage.</p>
</dd>
<dt id="term-remote-procedure-call-rpc">Remote Procedure Call (RPC)</dt>
<dd>The method used by the Compute RabbitMQ for intra-service
communications.</dd>
<dt id="term-replica">replica</dt>
<dd>Provides data redundancy and fault tolerance by creating copies
of Object Storage objects, accounts, and containers so that they are
not lost when the underlying storage fails.</dd>
<dt id="term-replica-count">replica count</dt>
<dd>The number of replicas of the data in an Object Storage
ring.</dd>
<dt id="term-replication">replication</dt>
<dd>The process of copying data to a separate physical device for
fault tolerance and performance.</dd>
<dt id="term-replicator">replicator</dt>
<dd>The Object Storage back-end process that creates and manages
object replicas.</dd>
<dt id="term-request-id">request ID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID assigned to each request sent to Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-rescue-image">rescue image</dt>
<dd>A special type of VM image that is booted when an instance is
placed into rescue mode. Allows an administrator to mount the file
systems for an instance to correct the problem.</dd>
<dt id="term-resize">resize</dt>
<dd>Converts an existing server to a different flavor, which scales
the server up or down. The original server is saved to enable rollback
if a problem occurs. All resizes must be tested and explicitly
confirmed, at which time the original server is removed.</dd>
<dt id="term-restful">RESTful</dt>
<dd>A kind of web service API that uses REST, or Representational
State Transfer. REST is the style of architecture for hypermedia
systems that is used for the World Wide Web.</dd>
<dt id="term-ring">ring</dt>
<dd>An entity that maps Object Storage data to partitions. A
separate ring exists for each service, such as account, object, and
container.</dd>
<dt id="term-ring-builder">ring builder</dt>
<dd>Builds and manages rings within Object Storage, assigns
partitions to devices, and pushes the configuration to other storage
nodes.</dd>
<dt id="term-rocky">Rocky</dt>
<dd>The code name for the eightteenth release of OpenStack. The
design summit will take place in Vancouver, Kanada. The release
is named after the Rocky Mountains.</dd>
<dt id="term-role">role</dt>
<dd>A personality that a user assumes to perform a specific set of
operations. A role includes a set of rights and privileges. A user
assuming that role inherits those rights and privileges.</dd>
<dt id="term-role-based-access-control-rbac">Role Based Access Control (RBAC)</dt>
<dd>Provides a predefined list of actions that the user can perform,
such as start or stop VMs, reset passwords, and so on. Supported in
both Identity and Compute and can be configured using the dashboard.</dd>
<dt id="term-role-id">role ID</dt>
<dd>Alphanumeric ID assigned to each Identity service role.</dd>
<dt id="term-root-cause-analysis-rca-service-vitrage">Root Cause Analysis (RCA) service (Vitrage)</dt>
<dd>OpenStack project that aims to organize, analyze and visualize OpenStack
alarms and events, yield insights regarding the root cause of problems
and deduce their existence before they are directly detected.</dd>
<dt id="term-rootwrap">rootwrap</dt>
<dd>A feature of Compute that allows the unprivileged “nova” user to
run a specified list of commands as the Linux root user.</dd>
<dt id="term-round-robin-scheduler">round-robin scheduler</dt>
<dd>Type of Compute scheduler that evenly distributes instances
among available hosts.</dd>
<dt id="term-router">router</dt>
<dd>A physical or virtual network device that passes network
traffic between different networks.</dd>
<dt id="term-routing-key">routing key</dt>
<dd>The Compute direct exchanges, fanout exchanges, and topic
exchanges use this key to determine how to process a message;
processing varies depending on exchange type.</dd>
<dt id="term-rpc-driver">RPC driver</dt>
<dd>Modular system that allows the underlying message queue software
of Compute to be changed. For example, from RabbitMQ to ZeroMQ or
Qpid.</dd>
<dt id="term-rsync">rsync</dt>
<dd>Used by Object Storage to push object replicas.</dd>
<dt id="term-rxtx-cap">RXTX cap</dt>
<dd>Absolute limit on the amount of network traffic a Compute VM
instance can send and receive.</dd>
<dt id="term-rxtx-quota">RXTX quota</dt>
<dd>Soft limit on the amount of network traffic a Compute VM
instance can send and receive.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<dt id="term-sahara">sahara</dt>
<dd>Codename for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-data-processing-service-sahara"><span class="xref std std-term">Data Processing service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-saml-assertion">SAML assertion</dt>
<dd>Contains information about a user as provided by the identity
provider. It is an indication that a user has been authenticated.</dd>
<dt id="term-scheduler-manager">scheduler manager</dt>
<dd>A Compute component that determines where VM instances should
start. Uses modular design to support a variety of scheduler
types.</dd>
<dt id="term-scoped-token">scoped token</dt>
<dd>An Identity service API access token that is associated with a
specific project.</dd>
<dt id="term-scrubber">scrubber</dt>
<dd>Checks for and deletes unused VMs; the component of Image
service that implements delayed delete.</dd>
<dt id="term-secret-key">secret key</dt>
<dd>String of text known only by the user; used along with an access
key to make requests to the Compute API.</dd>
<dt id="term-secure-boot">secure boot</dt>
<dd>Process whereby the system firmware validates the authenticity of
the code involved in the boot process.</dd>
<dt id="term-secure-shell-ssh">secure shell (SSH)</dt>
<dd>Open source tool used to access remote hosts through an
encrypted communications channel, SSH key injection is supported by
Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-security-group">security group</dt>
<dd>A set of network traffic filtering rules that are applied to a
Compute instance.</dd>
<dt id="term-segmented-object">segmented object</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage large object that has been broken up into
pieces. The re-assembled object is called a concatenated
object.</dd>
<dt id="term-self-service">self-service</dt>
<dd>For IaaS, ability for a regular (non-privileged) account to
manage a virtual infrastructure component such as networks without
involving an administrator.</dd>
<dt id="term-selinux">SELinux</dt>
<dd>Linux kernel security module that provides the mechanism for
supporting access control policies.</dd>
<dt id="term-senlin">senlin</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-clustering-service-senlin"><span class="xref std std-term">Clustering service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-server">server</dt>
<dd>Computer that provides explicit services to the client software
running on that system, often managing a variety of computer
operations.
A server is a VM instance in the Compute system. Flavor and
image are requisite elements when creating a server.</dd>
<dt id="term-server-image">server image</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a VM image.</dd>
<dt id="term-server-uuid">server UUID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID assigned to each guest VM instance.</dd>
<dt id="term-service">service</dt>
<dd>An OpenStack service, such as Compute, Object Storage, or Image
service. Provides one or more endpoints through which users can access
resources and perform operations.</dd>
<dt id="term-service-catalog">service catalog</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for the Identity service catalog.</dd>
<dt id="term-service-function-chain-sfc">Service Function Chain (SFC)</dt>
<dd>For a given service, SFC is the abstracted view of the required
service functions and the order in which they are to be applied.</dd>
<dt id="term-service-id">service ID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID assigned to each service that is available in the
Identity service catalog.</dd>
<dt id="term-service-level-agreement-sla">Service Level Agreement (SLA)</dt>
<dd>Contractual obligations that ensure the availability of a
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-service-project">service project</dt>
<dd>Special project that contains all services that are listed in the
catalog.</dd>
<dt id="term-service-provider">service provider</dt>
<dd>A system that provides services to other system entities. In
case of federated identity, OpenStack Identity is the service
provider.</dd>
<dt id="term-service-registration">service registration</dt>
<dd>An Identity service feature that enables services, such as
Compute, to automatically register with the catalog.</dd>
<dt id="term-service-token">service token</dt>
<dd>An administrator-defined token used by Compute to communicate
securely with the Identity service.</dd>
<dt id="term-session-back-end">session back end</dt>
<dd>The method of storage used by horizon to track client sessions,
such as local memory, cookies, a database, or memcached.</dd>
<dt id="term-session-persistence">session persistence</dt>
<dd>A feature of the load-balancing service. It attempts to force
subsequent connections to a service to be redirected to the same node
as long as it is online.</dd>
<dt id="term-session-storage">session storage</dt>
<dd>A horizon component that stores and tracks client session
information. Implemented through the Django sessions framework.</dd>
<dt id="term-share">share</dt>
<dd>A remote, mountable file system in the context of the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-shared-file-systems-service-manila"><span class="xref std std-term">Shared
File Systems service</span></a>. You can
mount a share to, and access a share from, several hosts by several
users at a time.</dd>
<dt id="term-share-network">share network</dt>
<dd>An entity in the context of the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-shared-file-systems-service-manila"><span class="xref std std-term">Shared File Systems
service</span></a> that encapsulates
interaction with the Networking service. If the driver you selected
runs in the mode requiring such kind of interaction, you need to
specify the share network to create a share.</dd>
<dt id="term-shared-file-systems-api">Shared File Systems API</dt>
<dd>A Shared File Systems service that provides a stable RESTful API.
The service authenticates and routes requests throughout the Shared
File Systems service. There is python-manilaclient to interact with
the API.</dd>
<dt id="term-shared-file-systems-service-manila">Shared File Systems service (manila)</dt>
<dd>The service that provides a set of services for
management of shared file systems in a multi-project cloud
environment, similar to how OpenStack provides block-based storage
management through the OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-block-storage-service-cinder"><span class="xref std std-term">Block Storage service</span></a> project.
With the Shared File Systems service, you can create a remote file
system and mount the file system on your instances. You can also
read and write data from your instances to and from your file system.</dd>
<dt id="term-shared-ip-address">shared IP address</dt>
<dd>An IP address that can be assigned to a VM instance within the
shared IP group. Public IP addresses can be shared across multiple
servers for use in various high-availability scenarios. When an IP
address is shared to another server, the cloud network restrictions
are modified to enable each server to listen to and respond on that IP
address. You can optionally specify that the target server network
configuration be modified. Shared IP addresses can be used with many
standard heartbeat facilities, such as keepalive, that monitor for
failure and manage IP failover.</dd>
<dt id="term-shared-ip-group">shared IP group</dt>
<dd>A collection of servers that can share IPs with other members of
the group. Any server in a group can share one or more public IPs with
any other server in the group. With the exception of the first server
in a shared IP group, servers must be launched into shared IP groups.
A server may be a member of only one shared IP group.</dd>
<dt id="term-shared-storage">shared storage</dt>
<dd>Block storage that is simultaneously accessible by multiple
clients, for example, NFS.</dd>
<dt id="term-sheepdog">Sheepdog</dt>
<dd>Distributed block storage system for QEMU, supported by
OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-simple-cloud-identity-management-scim">Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM)</dt>
<dd>Specification for managing identity in the cloud, currently
unsupported by OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-simple-protocol-for-independent-computing-environments-spice">Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE)</dt>
<dd>SPICE provides remote desktop access to guest virtual machines. It
is an alternative to VNC. SPICE is supported by OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-single-root-i-o-virtualization-sr-iov">Single-root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)</dt>
<dd>A specification that, when implemented by a physical PCIe
device, enables it to appear as multiple separate PCIe devices. This
enables multiple virtualized guests to share direct access to the
physical device, offering improved performance over an equivalent
virtual device. Currently supported in OpenStack Havana and later
releases.</dd>
<dt id="term-smokestack">SmokeStack</dt>
<dd>Runs automated tests against the core OpenStack API; written in
Rails.</dd>
<dt id="term-snapshot">snapshot</dt>
<dd>A point-in-time copy of an OpenStack storage volume or image.
Use storage volume snapshots to back up volumes. Use image snapshots
to back up data, or as “gold” images for additional servers.</dd>
<dt id="term-soft-reboot">soft reboot</dt>
<dd>A controlled reboot where a VM instance is properly restarted
through operating system commands.</dd>
<dt id="term-software-development-lifecycle-automation-service-solum">Software Development Lifecycle Automation service (solum)</dt>
<dd>OpenStack project that aims to make cloud services easier to
consume and integrate with application development process
by automating the source-to-image process, and simplifying
app-centric deployment.</dd>
<dt id="term-software-defined-networking-sdn">Software-defined networking (SDN)</dt>
<dd>Provides an approach for network administrators to manage computer
network services through abstraction of lower-level functionality.</dd>
<dt id="term-solidfire-volume-driver">SolidFire Volume Driver</dt>
<dd>The Block Storage driver for the SolidFire iSCSI storage
appliance.</dd>
<dt id="term-solum">solum</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-software-development-lifecycle-automation-service-solum"><span class="xref std std-term">Software Development Lifecycle Automation
service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-spread-first-scheduler">spread-first scheduler</dt>
<dd>The Compute VM scheduling algorithm that attempts to start a new
VM on the host with the least amount of load.</dd>
<dt id="term-sqlalchemy">SQLAlchemy</dt>
<dd>An open source SQL toolkit for Python, used in OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-sqlite">SQLite</dt>
<dd>A lightweight SQL database, used as the default persistent
storage method in many OpenStack services.</dd>
<dt id="term-stack">stack</dt>
<dd>A set of OpenStack resources created and managed by the
Orchestration service according to a given template (either an
AWS CloudFormation template or a Heat Orchestration
Template (HOT)).</dd>
<dt id="term-stacktach">StackTach</dt>
<dd>Community project that captures Compute AMQP communications;
useful for debugging.</dd>
<dt id="term-static-ip-address">static IP address</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a fixed IP address.</dd>
<dt id="term-staticweb">StaticWeb</dt>
<dd>WSGI middleware component of Object Storage that serves
container data as a static web page.</dd>
<dt id="term-storage-back-end">storage back end</dt>
<dd>The method that a service uses for persistent storage, such as
iSCSI, NFS, or local disk.</dd>
<dt id="term-storage-manager">storage manager</dt>
<dd>A XenAPI component that provides a pluggable interface to
support a wide variety of persistent storage back ends.</dd>
<dt id="term-storage-manager-back-end">storage manager back end</dt>
<dd>A persistent storage method supported by XenAPI, such as iSCSI
or NFS.</dd>
<dt id="term-storage-node">storage node</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage node that provides container services, account
services, and object services; controls the account databases,
container databases, and object storage.</dd>
<dt id="term-storage-services">storage services</dt>
<dd>Collective name for the Object Storage object services,
container services, and account services.</dd>
<dt id="term-strategy">strategy</dt>
<dd>Specifies the authentication source used by Image service or
Identity. In the Database service, it refers to the extensions
implemented for a data store.</dd>
<dt id="term-subdomain">subdomain</dt>
<dd>A domain within a parent domain. Subdomains cannot be
registered. Subdomains enable you to delegate domains. Subdomains can
themselves have subdomains, so third-level, fourth-level, fifth-level,
and deeper levels of nesting are possible.</dd>
<dt id="term-subnet">subnet</dt>
<dd>Logical subdivision of an IP network.</dd>
<dt id="term-suse-linux-enterprise-server-sles">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)</dt>
<dd>A Linux distribution that is compatible with OpenStack.</dd>
<dt id="term-suspend">suspend</dt>
<dd>The VM instance is paused and its state is saved to disk of the host.</dd>
<dt id="term-swap">swap</dt>
<dd>Disk-based virtual memory used by operating systems to provide
more memory than is actually available on the system.</dd>
<dt id="term-swauth">swauth</dt>
<dd>An authentication and authorization service for Object Storage,
implemented through WSGI middleware; uses Object Storage itself as the
persistent backing store.</dd>
<dt id="term-swift">swift</dt>
<dd>Codename for OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-object-storage-service-swift"><span class="xref std std-term">Object Storage service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-swift-all-in-one-saio">swift All in One (SAIO)</dt>
<dd>Creates a full Object Storage development environment within a
single VM.</dd>
<dt id="term-swift-middleware">swift middleware</dt>
<dd>Collective term for Object Storage components that provide
additional functionality.</dd>
<dt id="term-swift-proxy-server">swift proxy server</dt>
<dd>Acts as the gatekeeper to Object Storage and is responsible for
authenticating the user.</dd>
<dt id="term-swift-storage-node">swift storage node</dt>
<dd>A node that runs Object Storage account, container, and object
services.</dd>
<dt id="term-sync-point">sync point</dt>
<dd>Point in time since the last container and accounts database
sync among nodes within Object Storage.</dd>
<dt id="term-sysadmin">sysadmin</dt>
<dd>One of the default roles in the Compute RBAC system. Enables a
user to add other users to a project, interact with VM images that are
associated with the project, and start and stop VM instances.</dd>
<dt id="term-system-usage">system usage</dt>
<dd>A Compute component that, along with the notification system,
collects meters and usage information. This information can be used
for billing.</dd>
</dl>
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<dt id="term-tacker">tacker</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-nfv-orchestration-service-tacker"><span class="xref std std-term">NFV Orchestration service</span></a></dd>
<dt id="term-telemetry-service-telemetry">Telemetry service (telemetry)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack project which collects measurements of the utilization
of the physical and virtual resources comprising deployed clouds,
persists this data for subsequent retrieval and analysis, and triggers
actions when defined criteria are met.</dd>
<dt id="term-tempauth">TempAuth</dt>
<dd>An authentication facility within Object Storage that enables
Object Storage itself to perform authentication and authorization.
Frequently used in testing and development.</dd>
<dt id="term-tempest">Tempest</dt>
<dd>Automated software test suite designed to run against the trunk
of the OpenStack core project.</dd>
<dt id="term-tempurl">TempURL</dt>
<dd>An Object Storage middleware component that enables creation of
URLs for temporary object access.</dd>
<dt id="term-tenant">tenant</dt>
<dd>A group of users; used to isolate access to Compute resources.
An alternative term for a project.</dd>
<dt id="term-tenant-api">Tenant API</dt>
<dd>An API that is accessible to projects.</dd>
<dt id="term-tenant-endpoint">tenant endpoint</dt>
<dd>An Identity service API endpoint that is associated with one or
more projects.</dd>
<dt id="term-tenant-id">tenant ID</dt>
<dd>An alternative term for <a class="reference internal" href="#term-project-id"><span class="xref std std-term">project ID</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-token">token</dt>
<dd>An alpha-numeric string of text used to access OpenStack APIs
and resources.</dd>
<dt id="term-token-services">token services</dt>
<dd>An Identity service component that manages and validates tokens
after a user or project has been authenticated.</dd>
<dt id="term-tombstone">tombstone</dt>
<dd>Used to mark Object Storage objects that have been
deleted; ensures that the object is not updated on another node after
it has been deleted.</dd>
<dt id="term-topic-publisher">topic publisher</dt>
<dd>A process that is created when a RPC call is executed; used to
push the message to the topic exchange.</dd>
<dt id="term-torpedo">Torpedo</dt>
<dd>Community project used to run automated tests against the
OpenStack API.</dd>
<dt id="term-transaction-id">transaction ID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID assigned to each Object Storage request; used for
debugging and tracing.</dd>
<dt id="term-transient">transient</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for non-durable.</dd>
<dt id="term-transient-exchange">transient exchange</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a non-durable exchange.</dd>
<dt id="term-transient-message">transient message</dt>
<dd>A message that is stored in memory and is lost after the server
is restarted.</dd>
<dt id="term-transient-queue">transient queue</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a non-durable queue.</dd>
<dt id="term-tripleo">TripleO</dt>
<dd>OpenStack-on-OpenStack program. The code name for the
OpenStack Deployment program.</dd>
<dt id="term-trove">trove</dt>
<dd>Codename for OpenStack <a class="reference internal" href="#term-database-service-trove"><span class="xref std std-term">Database service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-trusted-platform-module-tpm">trusted platform module (TPM)</dt>
<dd>Specialized microprocessor for incorporating cryptographic keys
into devices for authenticating and securing a hardware platform.</dd>
</dl>
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<dt id="term-ubuntu">Ubuntu</dt>
<dd>A Debian-based Linux distribution.</dd>
<dt id="term-unscoped-token">unscoped token</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for an Identity service default token.</dd>
<dt id="term-updater">updater</dt>
<dd>Collective term for a group of Object Storage components that
processes queued and failed updates for containers and objects.</dd>
<dt id="term-user">user</dt>
<dd>In OpenStack Identity, entities represent individual API
consumers and are owned by a specific domain. In OpenStack Compute,
a user can be associated with roles, projects, or both.</dd>
<dt id="term-user-data">user data</dt>
<dd>A blob of data that the user can specify when they launch
an instance. The instance can access this data through the
metadata service or config drive.
Commonly used to pass a shell script that the instance runs on boot.</dd>
<dt id="term-user-mode-linux-uml">User Mode Linux (UML)</dt>
<dd>An OpenStack-supported hypervisor.</dd>
</dl>
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<dt id="term-vif-uuid">VIF UUID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID assigned to each Networking VIF.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-central-processing-unit-vcpu">Virtual Central Processing Unit (vCPU)</dt>
<dd>Subdivides physical CPUs. Instances can then use those
divisions.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-disk-image-vdi">Virtual Disk Image (VDI)</dt>
<dd>One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-extensible-lan-vxlan">Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)</dt>
<dd>A network virtualization technology that attempts to reduce the
scalability problems associated with large cloud computing
deployments. It uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to
encapsulate Ethernet frames within UDP packets.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-hard-disk-vhd">Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)</dt>
<dd>One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-ip-address-vip">virtual IP address (VIP)</dt>
<dd>An Internet Protocol (IP) address configured on the load
balancer for use by clients connecting to a service that is load
balanced. Incoming connections are distributed to back-end nodes based
on the configuration of the load balancer.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-machine-vm">virtual machine (VM)</dt>
<dd>An operating system instance that runs on top of a hypervisor.
Multiple VMs can run at the same time on the same physical
host.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-network">virtual network</dt>
<dd>An L2 network segment within Networking.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-network-computing-vnc">Virtual Network Computing (VNC)</dt>
<dd>Open source GUI and CLI tools used for remote console access to
VMs. Supported by Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-network-interface-vif">Virtual Network InterFace (VIF)</dt>
<dd>An interface that is plugged into a port in a Networking
network. Typically a virtual network interface belonging to a
VM.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-networking">virtual networking</dt>
<dd>A generic term for virtualization of network functions
such as switching, routing, load balancing, and security using
a combination of VMs and overlays on physical network
infrastructure.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-port">virtual port</dt>
<dd>Attachment point where a virtual interface connects to a virtual
network.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-private-network-vpn">virtual private network (VPN)</dt>
<dd>Provided by Compute in the form of cloudpipes, specialized
instances that are used to create VPNs on a per-project basis.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-server">virtual server</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a VM or guest.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-switch-vswitch">virtual switch (vSwitch)</dt>
<dd>Software that runs on a host or node and provides the features
and functions of a hardware-based network switch.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtual-vlan">virtual VLAN</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a virtual network.</dd>
<dt id="term-virtualbox">VirtualBox</dt>
<dd>An OpenStack-supported hypervisor.</dd>
<dt id="term-vitrage">Vitrage</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-root-cause-analysis-rca-service-vitrage"><span class="xref std std-term">Root Cause Analysis service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-vlan-manager">VLAN manager</dt>
<dd>A Compute component that provides dnsmasq and radvd and sets up
forwarding to and from cloudpipe instances.</dd>
<dt id="term-vlan-network">VLAN network</dt>
<dd>The Network Controller provides virtual networks to enable
compute servers to interact with each other and with the public
network. All machines must have a public and private network
interface. A VLAN network is a private network interface, which is
controlled by the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">vlan_interface</span></code> option with VLAN
managers.</dd>
<dt id="term-vm-disk-vmdk">VM disk (VMDK)</dt>
<dd>One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image
service.</dd>
<dt id="term-vm-image">VM image</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for an image.</dd>
<dt id="term-vm-remote-control-vmrc">VM Remote Control (VMRC)</dt>
<dd>Method to access VM instance consoles using a web browser.
Supported by Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-vmware-api">VMware API</dt>
<dd>Supports interaction with VMware products in Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-vmware-nsx-neutron-plug-in">VMware NSX Neutron plug-in</dt>
<dd>Provides support for VMware NSX in Neutron.</dd>
<dt id="term-vnc-proxy">VNC proxy</dt>
<dd>A Compute component that provides users access to the consoles
of their VM instances through VNC or VMRC.</dd>
<dt id="term-volume">volume</dt>
<dd>Disk-based data storage generally represented as an iSCSI target
with a file system that supports extended attributes; can be
persistent or ephemeral.</dd>
<dt id="term-volume-api">Volume API</dt>
<dd>Alternative name for the Block Storage API.</dd>
<dt id="term-volume-controller">volume controller</dt>
<dd>A Block Storage component that oversees and coordinates storage
volume actions.</dd>
<dt id="term-volume-driver">volume driver</dt>
<dd>Alternative term for a volume plug-in.</dd>
<dt id="term-volume-id">volume ID</dt>
<dd>Unique ID applied to each storage volume under the Block Storage
control.</dd>
<dt id="term-volume-manager">volume manager</dt>
<dd>A Block Storage component that creates, attaches, and detaches
persistent storage volumes.</dd>
<dt id="term-volume-node">volume node</dt>
<dd>A Block Storage node that runs the cinder-volume daemon.</dd>
<dt id="term-volume-plug-in">volume plug-in</dt>
<dd>Provides support for new and specialized types of back-end
storage for the Block Storage volume manager.</dd>
<dt id="term-volume-worker">volume worker</dt>
<dd>A cinder component that interacts with back-end storage to manage
the creation and deletion of volumes and the creation of compute
volumes, provided by the cinder-volume daemon.</dd>
<dt id="term-vsphere">vSphere</dt>
<dd>An OpenStack-supported hypervisor.</dd>
</dl>
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<dt id="term-watcher">Watcher</dt>
<dd>Code name for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-infrastructure-optimization-service-watcher"><span class="xref std std-term">Infrastructure Optimization service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-weight">weight</dt>
<dd>Used by Object Storage devices to determine which storage
devices are suitable for the job. Devices are weighted by size.</dd>
<dt id="term-weighted-cost">weighted cost</dt>
<dd>The sum of each cost used when deciding where to start a new VM
instance in Compute.</dd>
<dt id="term-weighting">weighting</dt>
<dd>A Compute process that determines the suitability of the VM
instances for a job for a particular host. For example, not enough RAM
on the host, too many CPUs on the host, and so on.</dd>
<dt id="term-worker">worker</dt>
<dd>A daemon that listens to a queue and carries out tasks in
response to messages. For example, the cinder-volume worker manages volume
creation and deletion on storage arrays.</dd>
<dt id="term-workflow-service-mistral">Workflow service (mistral)</dt>
<dd>The OpenStack service that provides a simple YAML-based language to
write workflows (tasks and transition rules) and a service that
allows to upload them, modify, run them at scale and in a highly
available manner, manage and monitor workflow execution state and state
of individual tasks.</dd>
</dl>
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<dd>X.509 is the most widely used standard for defining digital
certificates. It is a data structure that contains the subject
(entity) identifiable information such as its name along with
its public key. The certificate can contain a few other
attributes as well depending upon the version. The most recent
and standard version of X.509 is v3.</dd>
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services that allow multiple computer operating systems to
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<dd>An OpenStack-supported hypervisor.</dd>
<dt id="term-xfs">XFS</dt>
<dd>High-performance 64-bit file system created by Silicon
Graphics. Excels in parallel I/O operations and data
consistency.</dd>
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<dd>Codename for the <a class="reference internal" href="#term-message-service-zaqar"><span class="xref std std-term">Message service</span></a>.</dd>
<dt id="term-zeromq">ZeroMQ</dt>
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