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General Jargon, Acronyms, and Initialisms

Red Hat Terminology

See also: Red Hat Dictionary and Red Hat Acronyms

  • Accelerators Program - a group of customers who have been NDA'd to work with us on upcoming product changes
  • ARO - Azure Red Hat OpenShift (pronounced "arrow")
  • BYOI - bring your own image
  • BYOS - bring your own subscription, as opposed to "marketplace", but it's also sometimes similar to BYOI: "It's Microsoft's term, not ours. BYOS means to us literally the customer builds an image and imports it into the public cloud."
  • CAGI - Cloud Access golden image
  • CCS - Customer Content Services: they do the documentation
  • CCSP - Certified Cloud & Service Provider (or: Red Hat Certified Cloud & Service Provider Program)
  • Cloud Access - Cloud Access is Red Hat's supported path to move existing subscriptions to cloud providers.
  • Gold Images - Gold Images are Cloud Access images in AWS.
  • Golden Ticket - Golden Ticket provides unlimited access to content for which you have at least 1 subscription.
  • HCMA - Hybrid Cloud Management & Automation
  • HCS - Hybrid Committed Spend
  • MA - Management and Automation (related: "ma-escalations")
  • MCOM - Multi-Cloud OS Management
  • NFR - not for resale
  • OCP - OpenShift Container Platform
  • ODF - OpenShift data foundation
  • OKE - OpenShift Kubernetes Engine
  • QSR - quarterly status review
  • RHOSAK - Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka
  • RHPT - Red Hat product trials
  • RHSM - Red Hat Subscription Management/Manager
  • RHUA - Red Hat Update Appliance; As part of RHUI, downloads new packages from the Red Hat Content Delivery Network to shared storage for access by each Content Delivery Server node.
  • RHUI - Red Hat Update Infrastructure; see also product/tech overview
  • ROMS - Repeatable Onboarding of Managed Services
  • SBAR - Situation, Background, Assessment/Analysis, and Recommendation
  • SEAP - Subscription Education & Awareness Program
  • SMX - Subscription Management Experience; now part of USIR
  • USIR - Unified Subscription Inventory Reporting; formerly part of SMX
  • WCR - Whole Company Readiness

AWS Terminology

See also: AWS Glossary

Azure Terminology

See also: Microsoft Azure glossary and cloud computing terms