Glossary

A

Airship

Airship is a collection of interoperable and loosely coupled open source tools, among which is Deckhand, that provide automated cloud provisioning and management in a declarative way.

Alembic

Database migration software for Python and SQLAlchemy based databases.

B

barbican

Code name of the Key Manager service.

bucket

A bucket manages collections of documents together, providing write protections around them. Any bucket can read documents from any other bucket.

D

document

A collection of metadata and data in YAML format. The data document format is modeled loosely after Kubernetes practices. The top level of each document is a dictionary with 3 keys: schema, metadata, and data.

K

Key Manager service (barbican)

The project that produces a secret storage and generation system capable of providing key management for services wishing to enable encryption features.

M

migration (databse)

A transformation of a databse from one version or structure to another. Migrations for Deckhand’s database are performed using Alembic.

S

SQLAlchemy

Databse toolkit for Python.