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A block of storage that may be attached and detached from VMs similar to a USB drive. These may only be attached to one VM at a time.
Key Pair
A combination of a public key used to encrypt data and a private key used to decrypt data. Typically used in the context of using SSH to connect to a remote machine.
Floating IP
A static public IP address that is externally routable and is therefore accessible from outside of STFC and its VPN.
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More info: https://kubernetes.io/
Object Storage
A storage architecture that manages data as objects containing both data and metadata along with a unique identifier. Particularly useful for storing large amounts of unstructured data.
More info: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/data-storage/file-block-object-storage
Nova
The compute component of OpenStack. This provides a way of provisioning compute instances e.g. VMs.
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