nscale

The origanizational name of the deployment management toolkit

microservice

A small, light-weight, independantly deployable service having a single focused purpose, designed to communicate with other microservices via a well defined interface to provide business value.

• Microservices

container

An isolated host environment that can contain other containers and/or microservices. May be a virtual machine, a docker container or some other process that provides an isolated OS-like system.

• Containers

system

A collection of containers representing a topological deployment strategy.

• CLI Readme#system

nscale

The module name of the deployment management toolkit

• http://npmjs.org/nscale
• http://github.com/nearform/nscale

nsd

The CLI executable installed when the nscale module is installed, the nscale-client is the actual module that nsd executable links to.

• http://github.com/nearform/nscale-client
• CLI Readme

kernel

A server-based RPC kernel that supports the nscale-protocol, this must be available for the nscale-client (the nsd executable) to function.

• http://github.com/nearform/nscale-kernel
• http://github.com/nearform/nscale-protocol
• http://github.com/nearform/nscale-api
• Kernel Readme