Glossary ​
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The terms in the list are ordered alphabetically.
| Term | Description | Useful links |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs. | Amazon Web Services, Inc. |
| AWS EFS | Amazon Elastic File System is a cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services designed to provide scalable, elastic, concurrent with some restrictions, and encrypted file storage that can be mounted by NFS protocol to the Kyma cluster workloads and used in RWX access mode. | Amazon Elastic File System |
| Azure | Microsoft Azure, or just Azure, is the cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft. It offers management, access and development of applications and services to individuals, companies, and governments through its global infrastructure. | Microsoft Azure |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing is a bitwise, prefix-based standard for the representation of IP address ranges. It facilitates routing by allowing blocks of addresses to be grouped into single entry. | Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| Cloud | Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over multiple locations, each of which is a data center. | |
| Cloud provider | An IT company that provides on-demand, scalable computing resources like computing power, data storage, or applications over the internet. | |
| Cloud resources | A virtualized environment or IT service provided by the Cloud provider, like compute, data storage, analytics... | |
| GCP | Google Cloud Platform, offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning, alongside a set of management tools. | Google Cloud Platform |
| GCP Filestore | A managed GCP file storage service for cloud applications that can be mounted by NFS protocol to the Kyma cluster workloads and used in RWX access mode. | GCP file storage service |
| GCP Filestore Backup | A Google Cloud Filestore backup is a copy of a file share that includes all file data and metadata at the time of the backup. A backup can be used to restore the data if needed. | GCP Filestore backups |
| IP Address | Internet Protocol address is a unique address that identifies a device on the internet or a local network. | |
| IP Address range | A set of consecutive IP addresses, usually a network routing target expressed in the CIDR notation. | |
| Network routing | The process of selecting a path from source to destination node across one or more networks. | |
| NFS | Network File System is a network file sharing protocol that defines the way files are stored and retrieved from storage devices across networks. | |
| RWX | Persistent Volume ReadWriteMany access mode. | Kubernetes Persistent Volumes |
| VPC Network | Virtual Private Cloud network is a virtual version of a physical network that is implemented inside the cloud provider production network by using special network virtualization software. | |
| VPC Peering | A VPC peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs. It allows for two-way communication between these VPCs as if they were in the same network. |