Terminology

ARM Template - Azure Resource Manager, a JSON file that defines the infrastructure and configuration of your Lightbits cluster and all required Azure resources for deployment.
AVS - Azure VMware solution that combines VMware vSphere with the Azure public cloud.
AVS ExpressRoute Circuit - A circuit created by Azure/the customer when AVS (Azure VMware service) is set up. The circuit connects between the Azure Public Cloud and the AVS.
Azure App Configuration - Provides a service to centrally manage application settings and feature flags.
Azure Functions - An event-driven serverless compute service.
Blob Storage - Object storage solution for the cloud, optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data (note that Blob storage is part of the Storage Account).
KeyVault - Azure service for securely storing, managing, and accessing secrets.
Load Balancer - Evenly distributing loads (incoming network traffic), across a group of backend resources or servers.
Managed Identity - An identity in Azure AD for applications to use when connecting to resources that support Azure AD authentication.
Managed Resource Group - A collection of Azure resources created by the Marketplace-managed application. This includes all of the resources needed for the Lightbits storage cluster in Azure.
Marketplace - Online store that contains thousands of IT software applications and services to be deployed on Azure Cloud.
Network Security Group (NSG) - Rules or access control lists (ACL) that will allow or deny network traffic to your VMs/subnet.
Resource Group - Collection of Azure resources.
SDS - Lightbits Scale-out Disaggregated Storage.
Secrets - A way to store secret information like certificates, passwords, JWT, tokens, etc. - where you can control exactly who has access to read those secrets, and when.
Standard_Ls_v3 - An Intel-based storage optimized instance class (VM type).
Standard_Las_v3 - An AMD-based storage optimized instance class (VM type).
Storage Account - A scalable, highly available, and durable storage service. Contains all different types of Azure Storage data objects: Blobs, files, queues, and tables.
Subnet - A range of IP addresses in the virtual network.
Ultra ExpressRoute Gateway - The gateway on the Vnet level that enables all resources connected to the Vnet or its subnet in to the AVS (via the ExpressRoute Circuit).
Virtual Network (Vnet) - The fundamental building block for a private and segregated network in Azure.
VMSS - Virtual Machine Scale Set. The VMSS will create and manage a group of load balanced VMs.
Region - Each Azure geography contains one or more regions and meets specific data residency and compliance requirements. A Region can consist of one or more interconnected physical data centers.
Availability Zone - Many Azure regions provide availability zones, which are separated groups of data centers within a region. Availability zones are close enough to have low-latency connections to other availability zones.

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