Terms
- Platform
- The cloud built on your hardware: underlay, host OS, OpenNebula, VyOS and the architecture that connects them.
- Portal
- The Claugine user interface used by platform admins, platform users and tenants to operate and use the platform.
- Underlay
- The physical network between servers that carries all platform traffic.
- Host OS
- The operating system installed on each hypervisor host.
- OpenNebula
- The open-source cloud management platform that runs virtual machines and manages compute, storage and network resources.
- VyOS
- The open-source network operating system used for routing in the platform and for tenant networks.
- Inventory
- The description of your hardware and platform settings, prepared together before deployment. Deployment is driven from it.
- Platform admin
- Someone who builds and maintains the platform: day-1 deployment and day-2/3 operations.
- Platform user
- A member of the provider's team with the roles needed to provide service to tenants.
- Tenant
- A customer of the provider, using the portal's self-service to run their own virtual infrastructure.
- Day 1
- Deployment — creating the cloud platform from scratch, based on the inventory.
- Day 2 / day 3
- Ongoing operations — maintaining, updating and scaling the platform, automated through the portal.