Glossary ​

Availability zone (AZ)

A virtual machine is hosted in multiple locations worldwide. An AZ is a set of isolated locations within an Azure region. A region is a separate geographic area.

Azure Blob Storage (ABS)

Azure service used to allocate permanent storage volumes for Yellowbrick instances.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster

An AKS control plane and a set of nodes that run Kubernetes software. The cluster runs in an account managed by Azure on its own set of Azure virtual machine instances.

CDWM

Cloud Data Warehouse Manager, the control plane for a cloud deployment of Yellowbrick Data Warehouse.

cluster

A Yellowbrick virtual compute cluster runs queries and other operations, using hardware resources allocated to a specific Yellowbrick data warehouse instance.

compute node

A node in a virtual compute cluster, backed by cloud-based hardware of a specific instance type. Also known as a worker node

Domain Name System (DNS) zone

Domain Name System (DNS) webs service connects user requests to internet applications running on Azure. A DNS zone assigns and provides access to a custom domain name in your VPC, making use of internal Azure resources and servers.

Helm chart

A collection of files that describe a related set of Kubernetes resources, laid out in a specific directory tree and packaged for cloud deployment.

hosted zone

See DNS zone.

hub VNet

A VNet with a direct internet connection to a corporate network. The hub VNet provides access to some number of "spoke VNets."

Kubernetes (K8S)

Open-source software that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

observability deployment

The deployment that supports Grafana monitoring and logging to an observability storage container for remote diagnostics.

pod

A deployable group of Kubernetes containers, with shared storage and network resources.

resource group

A packaged, installable set of resources and files that are needed to run an application in a cloud-based environment.

Resource Manager

An Azure service that deploys software installations for cloud applications, using standard templates and web-based forms.

spoke VNet

A VNet with a private network that is created for a dedicated purpose and is reachable only via its "hub VNet."

Terraform

Software used to automate the management and provisioning of cloud-based infrastructure.

Virtual Machine (VM)

A virtual server in Azure's virtual machines for running applications on the Azure infrastructure.

Yellowbrick virtual compute cluster

See cluster.

Yellowbrick instance

A deployed and provisioned data warehouse that runs in a cloud environment, typically with limits imposed on its hardware resources.

Parent topic:Azure Deployment Guide for Yellowbrick