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-**Availability zone** - An Amazon EC2 concept of an isolated area that is used for fault tolerance. Do not confuse with an OpenStack Compute zone or cell.+----
  
-**CIDR** ?? 
  
 +**Availability zone** - An Amazon EC2 concept of an isolated area that is used for fault tolerance. Do not confuse with an OpenStack Compute zone or cell. Availability Zones are an end-user visible logical abstraction for partitioning a cloud without knowing the physical infrastructure.
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 +**CIDR** - representation (<IP>/<prefix length>) of the network’s IP subnet.
  
 **CEPH** - Massively scalable distributed storage system that consists of an object store, block store, and POSIX-compatible distributed file system. Compatible with OpenStack. **CEPH** - Massively scalable distributed storage system that consists of an object store, block store, and POSIX-compatible distributed file system. Compatible with OpenStack.
  
 **Port**  - A virtual network port within Networking; VIFs / vNICs are connected to a port. **Port**  - A virtual network port within Networking; VIFs / vNICs are connected to a port.
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 **Ingress** -  The process of filtering incoming network traffic. Supported by Compute. **Ingress** -  The process of filtering incoming network traffic. Supported by Compute.
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 **GateWay IP** - An IP address, typically assigned to a router, that passes network traffic between different networks. **GateWay IP** - An IP address, typically assigned to a router, that passes network traffic between different networks.
  
-**Subnet** - Logical subdivision of an IP network.+**Instances** - A running VM, or a VM in a known state such as suspended, that can be used like a hardware server.
  
-**Volumes** -  Disk-based data storage generally represented as an iSCSI target with a file system that supports extended attributes; can be persistent or ephemeral.+**Images** - A collection of files for a specific operating system (OS) that you use to create or rebuild a server. OpenStack provides pre-built images. You can also create custom images, or snapshots, from servers that you have launched. Custom images can be used for data backups or as images for additional servers.
  
-**Instances** - A running VM, or a VM in a known state such as suspended, that can be used like a hardware server.+**Key pairs** - are SSH credentials that are injected into an instance when it is launched.A key pair belongs to an individual user, not to a project. To share a key pair across multiple users, each user needs to import that key pair.
  
-**Images** - A collection of files for a specific operating system (OS) that you use to create or rebuild a server. OpenStack provides pre-built images. You can also create custom images, or snapshots, from servers that you have launched. Custom images can be used for data backups or as images for additional servers+**Live migration** - The ability within Compute to move running virtual machine instances from one host to another with only a small service interruption during switchover.
  
 **Network** - A virtual network that provides connectivity between entities. For example, a collection of virtual ports that share network connectivity. In Networking terminology, a network is always a layer-2 network. **Network** - A virtual network that provides connectivity between entities. For example, a collection of virtual ports that share network connectivity. In Networking terminology, a network is always a layer-2 network.
  
-**Openstack** - OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface. OpenStack is an open source project licensed under the Apache License 2.0.+**Openstack** - is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface. OpenStack is an open source project licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
  
-**XFS** - High-performance 64-bit file system created by Silicon Graphics. Excels in parallel I/O operations and data consistency.+**Persistent volume**  - Changes to these types of disk volumes are saved.
  
-**Persistent volume**  - Changes to these types of disk volumes are saved.+**Public image** - An Image service VM image that is available to all projects. 
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 +**Public Key Authentication** - Authentication method that uses keys rather than passwords Backups. 
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 +**QCOW2 (QEMU copy-on-write version 2)** - One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image service.The QCOW image format is one of the disk image formats supported by the QEMU processor emulator. It is a representation of a fixed size block device in a file. 
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 +**RAW** - One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image service; an unstructured disk image. The raw image format is the simplest one, and is natively supported by both KVM and Xen hypervisors. You can think of a raw image as being the bit-equivalent of a block device file, created as if somebody had copied, say, /dev/sda to a file using the dd command 
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 +**Routers** -  A physical or virtual network device that passes network traffic between 
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 +**Subnet** - Logical subdivision of an IP network.
  
 **Security group** - A set of network traffic filtering rules that are applied to a Compute instance. **Security group** - A set of network traffic filtering rules that are applied to a Compute instance.
  
-**Key pairs** - are SSH credentials that are injected into an instance when it is launched.A key pair belongs to an individual user, not to a project. To share a key pair across multiple users, each user needs to import that key pair.+**Volumes** -  Disk-based data storage generally represented as an iSCSI target with a file system that supports extended attributes; can be persistent or ephemeral.
  
-**SSH keys**- ??+**XFS** - High-performance 64-bit file system created by Silicon Graphics. Excels in parallel I/O operations and data consistency.
  
 **X509 Certificate** - is a standard format for public key certificates, digital documents that securely associate cryptographic key pairs with identities such as websites, individuals, or organizations. **X509 Certificate** - is a standard format for public key certificates, digital documents that securely associate cryptographic key pairs with identities such as websites, individuals, or organizations.
  
-**RAW** - One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image service; an unstructured disk image. 
  
-**QCOW2** - One of the VM image disk formats supported by Image service. 
  
-**Live migration** - The ability within Compute to move running virtual machine instances from one host to another with only a small service interruption during switchover. 
  
  
  
  
-**Public image** - An Image service VM image that is available to all projects. 
  
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