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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.

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