Glossary
- app-template
- The bjw-s Helm chart
almost every app is deployed with.
- ASN
- Autonomous System Number, the identifier of a BGP speaker. The UDM is
64513, Cilium 64514 and the NAS 64515.
- BGP
- Border Gateway Protocol. Used here to announce LoadBalancer VIPs from
the nodes and the NAS to the UDM.
- CNPG
- CloudNative-PG, the PostgreSQL operator.
- DRA
- Dynamic Resource Allocation, the Kubernetes API the Intel GPU driver uses
to hand iGPUs to pods.
- DSR
- Direct Server Return. Cilium's load-balancing mode, where replies go
straight from the backend to the client.
- ECMP
- Equal-Cost Multi-Path routing. The UDM spreads traffic for a VIP across
every node that announces it.
- doco-cd
- Docker Compose continuous deployment.
It is GitOps for the NAS stacks.
- flate
- home-operations/flate. It
renders a Flux Kustomization locally, with components and substitutions,
exactly as Flux would.
- Kopiur
- home-operations/kopiur, a
Kopia-based PVC backup operator with volume-populator restores.
- konflate
- A Flux PR previewer that posts rendered diffs as comments and status checks.
- OSD
- Object Storage Daemon. One Ceph OSD runs per Micron NVMe drive.
- RBD
- RADOS Block Device, Ceph's block storage. It backs the
ceph-block
StorageClass.
- schematic
- A Talos Image Factory definition (system
extensions and kernel arguments). Its content hash selects the installer
image.
- tuppr
- home-operations/tuppr, the
Talos and Kubernetes upgrade controller.
- UDM
- UniFi Dream Machine (Pro Max), the router and firewall.
- VIP
- Virtual IP. An address announced over BGP rather than bound to one host.