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Glossary of Terms

Note: As is probably obvious, this page is a work in progress.

Conductor has a number of terms and concepts that a user or administrator may need to know. This guide is meant to help out with that.

Note that Cloud Engine, the Red Hat product based on Conductor, uses a different set of terms, which are out of scope here. The [[Upstream and Product Name Cheatsheet]] may help you link the two, though.

Below, a brief one-sentence overview is presented, with a link to a wiki page with much more information:

Aeolus objects

  • Image - A “virtual hard drive” file built from an ] in a format specific to a given cloud provider.
    * ]    - Something tough to explain…
  • Deployable - An XML file describing how to launch one or more ], containing one or more ]s.
    * ]    - A collection of running Instances, launched based on what was described in a Deployable.
  • Environment (formerly “Pool Family”) - A grouping of ]s, such as by “Production” versus “Development” environments.
    * ]     A group in which Deployables can be saved, and Deployments can be launched.
  • Front-end Realm (part of Realms in general) - Something else kind of tough to explain
    * ]    - A general category/type of cloud provider, such as “Amazon EC2” or “OpenStack”; not (presently) user-definable
  • Provider - A specific instance of a ], e.g., your department’s vSphere servers or your production RHEV servers.
    * ]    - An account on a given Provider, e.g., your OpenStack login (using API credentials) or your Amazon AWS account for EC2
  • Hardware Profile - A named description of a specific “size” of cloud instance, including memory, storage, CPU count, and architecture
    * ]    - A “catalog” of deployables associated with a particular pool.
  • Instance — Effectively a virtual machine running on a cloud provider

Aeolus Components

Also see Aeolus Components which includes a diagram.

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