Containers on a common Kubernetes cluster deliver Prism Central functions like VPN, IAM and load balancing through this layer.
Also called CMSP, Controller Microservices Platform.
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Terms in this definition
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- VPN
Traffic sent through an encrypted tunnel across a public network, as in a site-to-site connection to a VPN gateway in an Azure GatewaySubnet.
- IAM
Short for identity and access management. The Azure portal's Access control (IAM) blade is where RBAC roles are assigned.
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
Related terms
- CNI
The interface that gives Kubernetes its networking. With Flow CNI, containers share networking with VMs in the same VPCs, and 10.100.0.0/24 is set aside for it by Microservices Infrastructure.
- IAM
Handles identity and access for Prism Central. It runs in containers on Microservices Infrastructure, like several other services.