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Cloud Computing Glossary

Your comprehensive guide to cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering terminology.

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Heat

Heat is the OpenStack orchestration service that automates the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure using declarative templates.

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High Availability

High Availability is a system design approach that keeps services accessible with minimal downtime by eliminating single points of failure through redundant components and automatic failover mechanisms.

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Horizon Dashboard

Horizon Dashboard is the web-based graphical interface for OpenStack that allows users and administrators to manage cloud resources through a browser instead of command-line tools.

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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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