Compute Nest uses a set of core concepts that appear throughout the documentation. This page defines each term and explains how they relate to each other.
How the concepts fit together
Compute Nest is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) that connects two types of participants: service providers and customers.
A service provider publishes a service on Compute Nest. When a customer subscribes to that service, Compute Nest creates a service instance. Depending on the service type, cloud resources may be provisioned inside that instance.
Service provider → publishes → Service
Customer → subscribes → Service instance
Service instance → may contain → Resources (ECS, RDS, SLB, VPC)Term definitions
Compute Nest
Compute Nest is a PaaS that provides centralized service management for service providers and their customers.
Service providers — including independent software vendors (ISVs), IT service providers, delivery service providers, and O&M service providers — use Compute Nest to deploy, deliver, and manage services. Customers use Compute Nest to manage all the services they subscribe to from multiple providers in one place.
For more information, see What is Compute Nest?
Service
A service is published by a service provider for customers to use. Services fall into two categories:
Application services: Services that customers deploy and run. Application services include:
Fully managed services: A sub-type of application services.
Private services: Customers deploy the service and manage cloud resources within the service instance.
Hosted O&M services: Services that establish a permission channel between the customer and the service provider. The service provider performs operations and maintenance on behalf of the customer.
For more information, see:
Service instance
A service instance is created when a customer deploys a service. What a service instance contains depends on the service type:
Private service instance: Customers can deploy various cloud resources in a service instance.
Hosted O&M service instance: Establishes a channel that lets the customer grant O&M permissions to the service provider.
For more information, see Create a private service instance.
Resource
Resources are cloud resources deployed inside a service instance. Supported resource types include:
Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
ApsaraDB RDS
Server Load Balancer (SLB)
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)