Abbreviations¶
Abbreviations used throughout this documentation. Every entry listed ALASCA here is also rendered as a tooltip wherever the abbreviation appears on any page of this site. Where a meaning links onwards, the link points to the authoritative source for that term.
ALASCA and its projects¶
Ecosystem, organisations and events¶
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CLT | Chemnitzer Linux-Tage |
| CNCF | Cloud Native Computing Foundation |
| CfP | Call for Papers |
| EOSA | European Open Source Academy |
| FSFE | Free Software Foundation Europe |
| OSBA | Open Source Business Alliance |
| PTG | Project Teams Gathering |
| SCS | Sovereign Cloud Stack |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| ZenDiS | Zentrum für Digitale Souveränität der Öffentlichen Verwaltung |
Saxony and public administration¶
Legal, licensing and compliance¶
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| AGB | Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen |
| CC BY-SA | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike |
| CRA | Cyber Resilience Act |
| EUPL | European Union Public Licence |
| FOSS | Free and Open Source Software |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| OSS | Open Source Software |
| SBOM | Software Bill of Materials |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SPDX | Software Package Data Exchange |
Cloud and infrastructure¶
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CRD | Custom Resource Definition |
| CSP | Cloud Service Provider |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
| K8s | Kubernetes |
| LCM | Lifecycle Management |
| ORC | OpenStack Resource Controller |
| OVS | Open vSwitch |
| PV | PersistentVolume |
| PVC | PersistentVolumeClaim |
| QEMU | Quick Emulator |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RGW | RADOS Gateway |
| S3 | Simple Storage Service |
| SSD | Solid State Drive |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
Networking¶
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol |
| BUM | Broadcast, Unknown-unicast and Multicast |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| GNS3 | Graphical Network Simulator-3 |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IX | Internet Exchange |
| IXP | Internet Exchange Point |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| MLAG | Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation Group |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| SONiC | Software for Open Networking in the Cloud |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| SSID | Service Set Identifier |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VRRP | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
Development and tooling¶
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| CD | Continuous Delivery |
| CI | Continuous Integration |
| CISO | Chief Information Security Officer |
| CLI | Command Line Interface |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| KI | Künstliche Intelligenz (Artificial Intelligence) |
| LLM | Large Language Model |
| MQ | Message Queue |
| MR | Merge Request |
| MVP | Minimum Viable Product |
| PAT | Personal Access Token |
| PR | Pull Request |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| YAML | YAML Ain't Markup Language |
Adding an abbreviation
Abbreviations are maintained in a single file:
docs/_includes/abbreviations.md.
The tooltips and the tables below are both generated from it:
<!-- section: Ecosystem, organisations and events -->
*[ABC]: A Better Choice
[abbr-ABC]: https://example.org/
The *[ABC]: line defines the abbreviation and its tooltip. The optional [abbr-ABC]: line
adds the "further information" link for the table — it may be an external URL or a page of
this site, such as projects/yaook.md. Note that the file is excluded from Prettier, which
would otherwise rewrite *[ABC]: into _[ABC]: and break every tooltip.