NSX Container Plugin. For a Supervisor networked by NSX, it tracks Kubernetes containers and other resources and builds what they need in NSX: segments, gateways, security groups, load balancers.
Also called NSX Container Plugin.
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Terms in this definition
- NSX
Software that handles networking and security across VCF, covering firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPCs, overlay segments and Tier-0/1 gateways.
- AMPRS
An acronym for availability, manageability, performance, recoverability and security: the five design qualities used to sort non-functional requirements and to weigh up trade-offs between design decisions.
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
Related terms
- WCP
vCenter service that drives vSphere Supervisor. Following a change to the NSX Manager certificate, thumbprint or IP address, restart it using vmon-cli --restart wcp to stop NCP entering CrashLoopBackOff.