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Appendix B. Glossary
B.1. Product and project names
- developers.redhat.com/launch
- developers.redhat.com/launch is a standalone getting started experience offered by Red Hat for jumpstarting cloud-native application development on OpenShift. It provides a hassle-free way of creating functional example applications, called missions, as well as an easy way to build and deploy those missions to OpenShift.
- Fabric8 Launcher
- The Fabric8 Launcher is the upstream project on which developers.redhat.com/launch is based.
- Single-node OpenShift Cluster
- An OpenShift cluster running on your machine using Minishift.
B.2. Terms specific to Fabric8 Launcher
- Booster
A language-specific implementation of a particular mission on a particular runtime. Boosters are listed in a booster catalog.
For example, a booster is a web service with a REST API implemented using the Thorntail runtime.
- Booster Catalog
- A Git repository that contains information about boosters.
- Mission
An application specification, for example a web service with a REST API.
Missions generally do not specify which language or platform they should run on; the description only contains the intended functionality.
- Runtime
- A platform that executes boosters. For example, Thorntail or Eclipse Vert.x.
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