Glossary
Your comprehensive guide to cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering terminology.
Access and Security refers to the set of controls and mechanisms that determine who can access your cloud resources and what actions they can perform through authentication, authorization, and network access controls.
An API credential is authentication information that identifies and authorizes a user or application to access cloud services programmatically through an API.
An application credential is a scoped authentication token in OpenStack that allows applications to authenticate to cloud APIs without exposing user passwords.
Autoscaling automatically adjusts compute resources in response to real-time demand, adding capacity during traffic spikes and removing it when demand drops.
An availability zone is a physically separate datacenter location within a cloud region that has independent power, cooling, and network connections to protect your workloads from localized failures.
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