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Glossary

The purpose of this document is define the specific terms which should be used for various concepts, with the goal of establishing consistency throughout documentation and source code.

  • "Isle" - The name of this project, which is a proper noun and so should always be capitalized.

  • "isle" - The name of the binary or program produced by the Isle project. isle is the name of the file itself, as well as an instance of the process, and so is always lower-case.

  • "host" - A computer or device on which isle is run.

  • "isle network", "network" - A collection of hosts which communicate and share resources with each other via the Isle project.

    • "garage cluster" - Garage is one of the sub-processes which isle is able to run. These garage process connect together to form a cluster. We use the term "cluster" in the context of garage to stay consistent with garage's documentation and command-line.

  • "member" - A person who takes part in the usage, operation, or administration of an isle network.