User interface, usually meaning a component's web console (SDDC Manager, VCF Installer and so on) rather than its API.
Also called user interface.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains UI in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- UI
User interface. In Azure DevOps, certain settings, like pipeline secret variables and approvals and checks, are configured through the web portal and not in YAML.
- Azure Machine Learning component
Reusable building block for a pipeline, versioned and self-contained, much like a function: it declares a name, inputs and outputs, and bundles the command, code and environment it runs.
- SDDC Manager
Per-instance VCF appliance that automates jobs such as workload domain deployment, lifecycle of ESX, NSX and vCenter, importing vCenter, stretching clusters, and handling passwords and certificates. VCF 9.0 positions it within VCF Operations, whose console is replacing its separate UI.
- VCF Installer
Successor to Cloud Builder: either converges an existing vSphere environment into VCF or deploys from scratch a new VCF Instance or fleet, with its management domain and core components.
- API
Short for application programming interface: a contract that client code calls programmatically, for example a web API secured with tokens or the Files, Images or Responses APIs.