Autoscaling
Autoscaling automatically adjusts compute resources in response to real-time demand, adding capacity during traffic spikes and removing it when demand drops.
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Glossary
Cloud Computing Glossary
Your comprehensive guide to cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering terminology.
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Compute
Compute is the processing power and resources used to run applications and workloads in a cloud environment, consisting of CPU cycles, memory, and other resources that execute code and handle data.
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Hypervisor
A hypervisor is software that creates and manages virtual machines by allowing multiple operating systems to share a single physical server's hardware resources.
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Image
An image is a template file that contains a pre-configured operating system, software, and settings used to create instances in cloud hosting. It acts as a blueprint that determines what your virtual machine will run when it starts.
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Instance
An instance is a virtual machine running on a cloud provider's infrastructure with its own operating system, CPU, memory, and storage that you can create, configure, and manage on demand.
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Instance Lifecycle
Instance lifecycle refers to the sequence of states and transitions a virtual machine goes through from the moment it is created until it is permanently deleted, including active, stopped, paused, suspended, shelved, and error states.
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Nova
Nova is the OpenStack compute service that manages the lifecycle of virtual machine instances, including creation, scheduling, and termination across a cluster of compute nodes.
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Virtual Machine
A Virtual Machine (VM) is a software-based computer that runs on physical hardware through a hypervisor, providing an isolated computing environment with its own operating system, CPU allocation, memory, and storage.
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