Glossary

This glossary collects the technical terms and definitions used throughout the documentation.

A

• Ansible: Configuration management and deployment automation tool. See Ansible Base.

C

• Container: Isolated environment that runs an application together with its dependencies. See Docker Base.
• Ceph: Distributed storage system. See Ceph Base.

D

• Deployment: Kubernetes resource that manages pod replicas. See Kubernetes Base.
• Docker: Container platform. See Docker Base.
• Dockerfile: File containing the instructions used to build Docker images. See Docker Base.

H

• HAProxy: Load balancer and reverse proxy. See HAProxy Base.

I

• Ingress: Kubernetes resource used to expose HTTP/HTTPS services. See Kubernetes Base.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Managing infrastructure through code. See Terraform Base.

K

• Kubernetes (K8s): Container orchestration platform. See Kubernetes Base.

N

• Namespace: Kubernetes namespace used to isolate resources. See Kubernetes Base.

O

• OpenStack: Cloud computing platform. See OpenStack Base.
• OSD: Object Storage Daemon (Ceph). See Ceph Base.

P

• PG: Placement Group (Ceph). See Ceph Base.
• Pod: Smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, holding one or more containers. See Kubernetes Base.
• Proxmox VE: Virtualization platform. See Proxmox Base.
• Probe: Health check in Kubernetes (readiness/liveness). See Kubernetes Probes.

S

• Service: Kubernetes resource that exposes pods internally. See Kubernetes Base.

T

• Terraform: IaC tool. See Terraform Base.

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