Glossary

Nucleator defines a set of Core Domain concepts described in Nucleator Concepts and Domain Model.  Additionally, the table below provides definitions for terms used throughout the document that may not be familiar to all users.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

is a Cloud infrastructure provider that supports distinct web services, the most popular of which include EC2 (compute) and S3 (object storage).

 

Ansible

is an open-source software platform for configuring and managing infrastructure

 

Bastion

is an application that processes incoming Internet traffic and prevents malicious traffic from entering the network

 

Boto

is the AWS Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python

 

Configuration Management (CM)

is the process of tracking changes in hardware and software

 

Domain Name System (DNS)

is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or private network

 

Elastic Beanstalk

is an AWS deployment and provisioning service

 

Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)

is an AWS service that uses Hadoop, an open source framework, to distribute and process data across a resizable cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

 

git

is an open source distributed software version control system

High Availability (HA)

is a design strategy for systems or components that are continuously operational

IAM

is AWS' Identity and Access Management service, which enables granting of secure access control to Users, Groups and Roles

 

IAM Credentials

are AWS IAM secure access methods which include username/password, Access Keys and MFA devices

 

Jenkins

is an open source Continuous Integration server.  Continuous Integration is a software development practice where team members integrate code frequently

 

Network Address Translation (NAT)

is the translation of an IP address used within one network to a different IP address used in another network.

 

Python

is an open source interpreted programming language designed to be easy to read and implement

 

Redshift

is an AWS petabyte scale data warehouse offering

 

Resource Tags

are AWS key value pairs that allow users to add metadata about their resources

 

Route 53

is AWS' domain name service

 

Standard Operation Procedure (SOP)

is an established process for carrying out a set of steps when presented with a particular situation

 

Subnet

is a separate part of an IP network

 

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

is an AWS service that allows users to launch AWS resources into a virtual network that is a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud