Chinese | English | Description |
|---|---|---|
Workspace | Workspace | A workspace is a group of resources that share a network, use the same security policies, and have very low access latency. You can use environments to group resources for different delivery needs, such as development, staging, and production environments. Resources in different environments are isolated, and you can assign separate operator permissions to manage each one. |
Application | Application | It is a concept used by SOFAStack to abstract underlying Alibaba Cloud resources. Within a tenant, one set of code corresponds to one application. An application has basic metadata, such as its technology stack, group, and classification. The application is a core concept of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) platform. The entire R&D and O&M system is centered around applications, including developing, publishing, operating, and monitoring them. |
Application Service | Application Service | An application service, also called an application service instance, is a running instance of an application within an environment. It contains information about the technology stack and deployment unit. It also includes associated compute resources, load balancing, and storage resources. An application can have multiple application services in one environment. |
Resource | Resource | Refers to services such as ECS, SLB, OCS, Memcache, and RDS. |
Tenant | Tenant | The current concept of a tenant. It was previously called a project or space. |
Cell | Cell | A cell uses independent middleware services. It can belong to a single physical zone or span multiple physical zones. |
technology stack | Buildpack | On the SOFAStack platform, a buildpack is the collection of all frameworks and related resources that an application depends on. It defines the dependencies for publishing, deploying, and operating an application. This includes the operating system and version, development framework type and version, application startup and deployment scripts, and environment parameters. |