apeiro-terms.json

{
    "cloud-edge continuum": {
        "description": "The cloud-edge continuum describes the seamless integration of edge and cloud computing, facilitating new methodologies and optimized data processing and storage within distributed networks.",
        "url": "https://www.8ra.com"
    },
    "platform mesh": {
        "description": "Enables diverse application development across the cloud-edge continuum by allowing service selection without vendor lock-in.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/platform-mesh"
    },
    "service": {
        "description": "A solution or active entity, which offers some API to its consumers.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#service"
    },
    "services": {
        "alias": "service"
    },
    "unmanaged service": {
        "description": "A service not set up and controlled by a service provider.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#managed-and-unmanaged-services"
    },
    "unmanaged services": {
        "alias": "unmanaged service"
    },
    "unmanaged": {
        "alias": "unmanaged service"
    },
    "managed service": {
        "description": "A service provided by a Managed Service Provider (MSP).",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#managed-and-unmanaged-services"
    },
    "managed services": {
        "alias": "managed service"
    },
    "managed": {
        "alias": "managed service"
    },
    "capability": {
        "description": "A concrete incarnation of a service that has been created and configured for a specific application or service.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#capability"
    },
    "capabilities": {
        "alias": "capability"
    },
    "service instance": {
        "alias": "capability"
    },
    "service instances": {
        "alias": "capability"
    },
    "managed capability": {
        "description": "A concrete incarnation of a service that has been provided by a Managed Service Provider (MSP).",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#managed-and-unmanaged-services"
    },
    "managed capabilities": {
        "alias": "managed capability"
    },
    "digital twin": {
        "description": "A virtual representation of a physical object, system, or process that is continuously updated with real-time or near-real-time data to mirror its real-world counterpart.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/digital-twins"
    },
    "digital twins": {
        "alias": "digital twin"
    },
    "service consumer": {
        "description": "An organization or individual that orders, utilizes, and manages the lifecycle of a service.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#service-suppliers-and-service-consumers"
    },
    "service consumers": {
        "alias": "service consumer"
    },
    "consumer": {
        "alias": "service consumer"
    },
    "consumers": {
        "alias": "service consumer"
    },
    "service supplier": {
        "description": "An organization or individual that offers and manages one or more services.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#service-suppliers-and-service-consumers"
    },
    "service suppliers": {
        "alias": "service supplier"
    },
    "supplier": {
        "alias": "service supplier"
    },
    "suppliers": {
        "alias": "service supplier"
    },
    "service provider": {
        "description": "A service provider offers services to consumers.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#service-provider"
    },
    "service providers": {
        "alias": "service provider"
    },
    "Service providers":{
        "alias": "service provider"
    },
    "provider": {
        "alias": "service provider"
    },
    "providers": {
        "alias": "service provider"
    },
    "managed service provider": {
        "alias": "service provider"
    },
    "managed service providers": {
        "alias": "service provider"
    },
    "msp": {
        "alias": "service provider"
    },
    "kubernetes resource model": {
        "description": "A framework used in Kubernetes to define and manage the various entities or resources.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/digital-twins/krm"
    },
    "krm": {
        "alias": "kubernetes resource model"
    },
    "controller": {
        "description": "A control loop that watch the for state changes and makes or requests changes where needed.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/digital-twins/controller"
    },
    "controllers": {
        "alias": "controller"
    },
    "resource": {
        "description": "A document defining the desired state of a capability and capturing its actual state. See also Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM).",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#resource"
    },
    "resources": {
        "alias": "resource"
    },
    "service runtime": {
        "description": "A runtime environment that hosts one or more capabilities.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#service-runtime"
    },
    "service runtimes": {
        "alias": "service runtime"
    },
    "service coordinator": {
        "description": "A central component of a service provider, containing the service scheduler and the service runtime manager.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services/managed-service-provider-pattern#service-coordinator"
    },
    "service scheduler": {
        "description": "A controller that identifies and assigns an service runtime to unscheduled capabilities.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services/managed-service-provider-pattern#service-scheduler"
    },
    "service runtime manager": {
        "description": "A component that manages service runtimes for a service provider.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services/managed-service-provider-pattern#service-runtime-manager"
    },
    "servicelet": {
        "description": "A component managing capabilities on a service runtime.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services/managed-service-provider-pattern#servicelet"
    },
    "servicelets": {
        "alias": "servicelet"
    },
    "service provisioners": {
        "alias": "service provisioner"
    },
    "service marketplace": {
        "description": "A place where service providers offer various services, and consumers can discover these services.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/services#service-marketplace"
    },
    "service marketplaces": {
        "alias": "service marketplace"
    },
    "marketplace": {
        "alias": "service marketplace"
    },
    "marketplaces": {
        "alias": "service marketplace"
    },
    "service orchestration environment": {
        "description": "The central component of the ApeiroRA Platform Mesh, in which service consumers can order and manage digital twins.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/platform-mesh/service-provider-control-planes"
    },
    "service orchestration environments": {
        "alias": "service orchestration environment"
    },
    "security posture": {
        "description": "The overall security strength and readiness of an organization, reflecting its ability to protect against, detect, and respond to cyber threats through implemented policies, processes, and technologies.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/security/security-compliance-automation"
    },
    "account model": {
        "description": "A hierarchical structure that serves as the foundational fabric for managing interactions between service providers and consumers, enabling sophisticated service management while maintaining clear organizational boundaries and operational control.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/platform-mesh/account-model"
    },
    "account": {
        "alias": "account model"
    },
    "accounts": {
        "alias": "account model"
    },
    "micro frontend": {
        "description": "An architectural style where independently deliverable frontend applications are composed into a larger whole.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/micro-frontends"
    },
    "micro frontends": {
        "alias": "micro frontend"
    },
    "Micro Frontends": {
        "alias": "micro frontend"
    },
    "microfrontends": {
        "alias": "micro frontend"
    },
    "microfrontend": {
        "alias": "micro frontend"
    },
    "Apeiro Frontend": {
        "description": "The primary user interface for managing cloud-edge services provided by the Apeiro Reference Architecture, built on open-source principles and leveraging a microfrontend architecture.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/micro-frontends"
    },
    "frontend": {
        "alias": "Apeiro Frontend"
    },
    "workspace": {
        "description": "A concept in kcp that creates additional isolation for resources and APIs, serving as a basis for a technical account model in OpenMFP.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/platform-mesh/account-model#account-structure"
    },
    "workspaces": {
        "alias": "workspace"
    },
    "ord": {
        "description": "A protocol that allows applications and services to self-describe resources and interfaces.",
        "url": "https://github.com/open-resource-discovery"
    },
    "Open Resource Discovery": {
        "alias": "ord"
    },
    "openkcm": {
        "description": "OpenKCM is Apeiro's key chain manager, a secure cloud service that manages cryptographic keys for data encryption, enabling users to easily create, control, and use encryption keys across various applications and services.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/security/key-management"
    },
    "hsm": {
        "description": "A physical computing device that safeguards and manages digital keys for strong authentication and provides cryptoprocessing to enhance the security of sensitive data.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/security/key-management"
    },
    "hardware security module": {
        "alias": "hsm"
    },
    "otel": {
        "description": "OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel, is a vendor-neutral open source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/observability"
    },
    "actuator": {
        "description": "Controllers that map real-world capabilities into the virtual-world.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/control-planes/cat#actuators"
    },
    "actuators": {
        "alias": "actuator"
    },
    "control plane": {
        "description": "Central management system responsible for orchestrating and managing a target environment.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/control-planes#control-plane"
    },
    "control planes": {
        "alias": "control plane"
    },
    "data plane": {
        "description": "Persistency part of the management or control plane that hosts the shared repository for all digital twin resources.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/control-planes#data-plane"
    },
    "data planes": {
        "alias": "data plane"
    },
    "work plane": {
        "description": "Operational heart of a target environment.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/control-planes#work-plane"
    },
    "work planes": {
        "alias": "work plane"
    },
    "ums": {
        "description": "A service that gathers metadata and offers a graph-based API for easy discovery, querying, and selection of metadata across different business contexts and providers.",
        "url": "#"
    },
    "Unified Metadata Service": {
        "alias": "ums"
    },
    "audit relevant logs": {
        "description": "Audit Logging and Audit Relevant Logs are usually system-generated logs of security-related events or user actions. These often contains data that can be crucial for maintaining system integrity, compliance or investigating malicious activity. For example, logs emitted on write-operations to sensitive files, login attempts or delete-operations made on a system.",
        "url": "/docs/best-practices/observability"
    }
}