Glossary of terms

understand the parlance of to comprehend nuances and details of container clusters managed by users of service account (in progress) a principal identity recognizable by users and peripheral systems, composed of a set of secrets for authentication and authorization cluster role (in progress) a cluster level logical grouping of policyrules, accessible as a unit by rolebinding or clusterrolebinding role (in progress) a namespaced logical grouping of policyrules, accessible as a unit by rolebinding cluster role binding (in progress) links to a clusterrole without containing it it references a clusterrole in the global namespace and adds information through subject role binding (in progress) references a role without containing it it can link to a role in the same namespace or a clusterrole in the global namespace, adding 'who' information via subjects and specifying the namespace of existence config map holds configuration data for pods to utilize secret contains secret data of a certain type a service is a named software service abstraction (e g , mysql), comprising a local port and a selector to determine which pods respond to requests ingress a collection of rules enabling inbound connections to reach backend defined endpoints it can configure services for external urls, load balance traffic, terminate ssl, and more persistent volume (pv) a storage resource provisioned by an administrator persistent volume claim a user's request for and claim to a persistent volume pod a collection of containers that can operate on a host deployment facilitates declarative updates for pods and replica sets replica set ensures a specified number of pod replicas are running at any given time daemon set represents the configuration of a daemon set stateful set represents a set of pods with consistent identities, defined by network and storage attributes job represents the configuration of a single job cronjob represents the configuration of a single cronjob