Cloud Computing Glossary
Your comprehensive guide to cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering terminology.
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Planned Maintenance
Planned maintenance refers to scheduled periods when cloud providers perform infrastructure updates, security patches, or hardware replacements, typically announced in advance to allow customers to prepare their workloads.
InfrastructureRead definitionPrivate Network
A private network is an isolated network segment within your cloud project that creates a dedicated communication path between instances using private IP addresses not exposed to the public internet.
NetworkingRead definitionProject
A project is an isolated resource container in OpenStack that groups users, instances, networks, storage, and other cloud resources under a single administrative boundary with defined quotas and access controls.
InfrastructureRead definitionProject Selector
The project selector is a dropdown menu in the OpenStack Horizon dashboard that allows users to switch between different projects (tenants) they have permission to access.
Horizon DashboardRead definition
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