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Terminology

General Terms

Distribution

A set of instances that comprises a build or release, synonymous with the industry term "stack".

Bake

The process of creating an instance from a fresh template, configuring it to match the webserver and saving an image of the instance.

Build

Spinning up a new instance for a test environment, this normally results in the termination of the previous build.

Deploy

The process of building all production (or stage) instances, swapping load balancers and terminating the previous deployment.

Release

See 'Deploy' - although 'Release' is normally the consumer facing lingo.

Workflow Terms

Action

A bake, deploy, scale or tear-down.

Command

A process performed while running an action, this is normally an API call to a cloud provider.

Command Driver

The low-level implementation for a specific command.

Task

A decision of action task, one of the events in the workflow.

Workflow

The series of events required to complete an action.