Glossary
Global Resources
| Resource Type | Resource Provider | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Region | Seca.Region | A geographical area containing a set of data centers, often isolated from other regions for purposes of fault tolerance, redundancy, and availability. |
| Zone | Seca.Region | A set of data centers within a region, each designed to be isolated from failures in other zones, but connected to them via low-latency links to provide high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability |
| Tenant | out-of-scope | A logically isolated entity within a cloud platform that represents an organization, business unit, or individual user. It defines the highest level of resource ownership, access control, and billing segregation in the SECA cloud architecture. It's part of the JWT and out-of-scope of SECA API Definition |
| Subject | out-of-scope | Represents the Service Principal who is performing the request towards the SECA CSP. It's part of the JWT and out-of-scope of SECA API definition |
| Role | Seca.Authorization | A set of permissions to identify which verbs can be performed towards a set of resources in a scope. |
| Role Assignment | Seca.Authorization | Association between a Subject and a Role. |
| Activity-Log | Seca.Activity-log | The Activity Log captures actions performed within the Cloud Management Platform, including details such as the timestamp, actor, action, target resource, and the contextual information associated with each event |
| Object-Storage | Seca.Object-storage | The Object Storage Account represents a globally accessible resource within the Cloud Management Platform, used to manage and store unstructured data. While the account itself is globally unique, the actual data is stored in a specified region or across multiple regions depending on the chosen redundancy and performance configuration. |
Regional Resources
| Resource Type | Resource Provider | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Network | Seca.Network | Similar concept as the VPC in AWS, and Google Cloud; represents a logical environment, isolated from the other INE, which can contain one or more network. |
| Internet Gateway | Seca.Network | A gateway used in route tables to indicate internet access |
| Route Table | Seca.Network | A list of routes used by the network to route IP traffic |
| Security Group | Seca.Network | A logical container for Security Group Rules; to be assigned to a NIC |
| Security Group Rule | Seca.Network | A logical rule policing the traffic from and to a CIDR/Security Group and Port towards a specific port or port range; to be assigned to a Security Group |
| Public IP | Seca.Network | An IP address which is part of a public network and will allow traffic to enter the NIC if the correct SG is put in place |
| Image | Seca.Storage | Is a deployment artifact, a pre-configured template of a bare-bone OS (usually Linux or Windows). |
| Sku | Part of every cloud resource provider | Represents a unique identifier for a specific cloud resource offering that defines its pricing, performance characteristics, and configuration options |
Zonal Resources
| Resource Type | Resource Provider | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Compute | Seca.Compute | A fully virtualized os running over a fully virtualized hardware; similar to EC2/Azure Virtual Machines/Google Compute Engine |
| Subnet | Seca.Network | Contained inside an Network and is a sum of technologies and configurations put together to provide network connectivity to your Compute Instance |
| NIC | Seca.Network | A peace of virtualized hardware which will be created every time an SCI is assigned to a Subnet |
| Block Storage | Seca.Storage | A logical aggregation of disk space to be used by your SCI as OS or Data disks. |