Cloud Technical Glossary: Difference between revisions

| A set of security rules that control network traffic and can be applied as a whole to one or more instances.

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| We host many research web portals which serve datasets or tools to a broad research community. These portals generally do not require large computing or storage resources, but may require support effort by our technical team. Groups applying for a service portal often use our clouds, generally require a public IP address, and may have more stringent up-time requirements than most research projects.

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| Persistent storage space offered as a Unix-compliant filesystem that can be mounted across multiple hosts in a project. This is useful for sharing data across multiple hosts. Service runs on CephFS and requires either a Fuse driver (Windows/Linux) or the CephFS kernel driver (Linux) for access. Allocated in TB.

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| A type of object storage. See https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift.

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|'''TSL''' (Transport Layer Security)