Glossary

Product

Applications

The convergence of open source application, each open source software we call an application.

Solution

A scenario-oriented system composed of multiple open source applications

Cloud Marketplace

Cloud Marketplace is a software transaction and delivery platform provided by Cloud platform.

Marketplace Image

Marketplace Image are the images provided by Publisher on Cloud Marketplace

Cloud Service

Cloud Console

Cloud Console is the web GUI that build, manage, and monitor everything from simple web apps to complex cloud applications in a single, unified console.

Cloud CLI

Command Line Interface (CLI) is cross-platform command-line experience for managing Cloud resources. The CLI is easy to learn and the perfect tool for building custom automation that works with Cloud resources.

Cloud Server

Cloud Server = Cloud Instance, or ECS, VM, EC2

Image

Image is a operating system template includes some software.

Security Group

A security group implements access controls for Instance, specifying the communication scope of Instance. You can define different access control rules for a security group, and these rules take effect for all Instance added to this security group. By default, a security group allows all data packets that are sent out from VMin it, and VM in the same security group can access each other

Cloud-Init

Cloud-Init is the industry standard multi-distribution method for cross-platform cloud instance initialization.

DNS

DNS (domain name server) is a service that routes internet traffic to websites by translating friendly domain names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other

Operating System

Port

A port is an endpoint of communication in computer networking. This can be hardware port, a logical port, or both. TCP and UDP ports are identified by their port number (an integer from 0 to 65535)

SSH

A cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network based at the application layer and transport layer

Secure Shell key pair (SSH key pair)

An authentication method available for logging in to VM instances remotely. An SSH key pair is a pair of keys generated through an encryption algorithm: one key is publicly available (the public key) and the other key is kept confidential (the private key).

If you have placed the public key in a Linux instance, you can use the private key to log on to the instance using SSH commands or related tools from a local computer or another instance without a password

SFTP

SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) is a secure file transfer protocol. It runs over the SSH protocol . It supports the full security and authentication functionality of SSH

Internet IP

Internet IP is a address's for your Instance, it can be used to access your application directly

Volume

A fixed amount of storage on an instance. It's the same with disk

OS disk

Every instance has one attached operating system disk. That OS disk has a pre-installed OS, which was selected when the instance was created.

Snapshot

A copy of data on a disk at a certain time point. There are two types of snapshots, automatic snapshots and user-created snapshots.