Glossary
- agent
- Software service running on nodes that executes actions towards typically
nameservers like BIND or similar.
- central
- Software service running on a central management node that stores
information persistently in a backend storage using a configurable driver
like SQLAlchemy or other.
- api
- HTTP REST API service for Designate
- mq
- A message queue, typically something like RabbitMQ or ZeroMQ
- storage
- A backend for storing data/information persistently. Typically MongoDB or
a SQL based server software.
- node
- A server, physical or virtual, running some aspect of the designate system.
- sink
- Optional Software Service that is configured to listen to events from the Nova
or Neutron event queue and use the central service to generate simple A records
for instances as they are created, and delete A records as they are deleted.
- backend
- A backend is used by the central service to manipulate the data served by a DNS
server. There are backends that support PowerDNS, BIND, MySQL BIND & dnsmasq.