April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
8h 9m
English
book
OpenStack Operations Guide
by Tom Fifield, Diane Fleming, Anne Gentle, Lorin Hochstein, Jonathan Proulx, Everett Toews, Joe Topjian
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Glossary
Use this glossary to get definitions of OpenStack-related words and phrases.
To add to this glossary, fork the openstack/openstack-manuals
repository and update the source files through the OpenStack
contribution process.
- absolute limit
Impassable limits for guest VMs. Settings include total RAM size, maximum number of vCPUs, and maximum disk size.
- access control list
A list of permissions attached to an object. An ACL specifies which users or system processes have access to objects. It also defines which operations can be performed on specified objects. Each entry in a typical ACL specifies a subject and an operation. For instance, the ACL entry
(Alice, delete)for a file gives Alice permission to delete the file.- access key
Alternative term for an Amazon EC2 access key. See EC2 access key.
- account
The Object Storage context of an account. Do not confuse with a user account from an authentication service, such as Active Directory, /etc/passwd, OpenLDAP, OpenStack Identity Service, and so on.
- account auditor
Checks for missing replicas and incorrect or corrupted objects in a specified Object Storage account by running queries against the backend SQLite database.
- account database
A SQLite database that contains Object Storage accounts and related metadata and that the accounts server accesses.
- account reaper
An Object Storage worker that scans for and deletes account databases and that the account server has marked for deletion.
- account server
Lists containers in Object Storage and stores ...
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