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Understand key terms and concepts used in the LAAVAT Platform

Definitions Acronyms and Abbreviations

Term/Acronym Description
AAD Azure Active Directory
AHAB Advanced High Assurance Boot
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
Ansible Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code.
Ansible Vault Ansible encrypted storage.
API Application Programming Interface
Artifactory JFrog Enterprise Universal Repository Manager
AWS Amazon Web Services
CA Certificate Authority
CI/CD Combined practices of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment.
CP Certificate Policy is a named set of rules that indicates the applicability of a certificate to a particular community and class of application with common security requirements. For example, a particular CP might indicate the applicability of a type of certificate to the authentication of parties engaging in business-to-business transactions for the trading of goods or services within a given price range. rfc3647
CPS Certificate Practice Statement is a statement of the practices that a certification authority employs in issuing, managing, revoking, and renewing or re-keying certificates. rfc3647
CSF Command Sequence File (Used in HAB)
Docker Docker is a tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers. Containers allow a developer to package up an application with all of the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and deploy it as one package.
EC Elliptic Curve
ECDSA Elliptic Curve Digital Signature
EFK Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana for logging.
Fluentd An open-source data collector for unified logging layer.
Golang Golang is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google.
HA High Availability.
HAB High Assurance Boot
HMAC Keyed-hash message authentication code
provides crypto processing.
HSM A Hardware Security Module (HSM) is a physical computing device that safeguards and manages digital keys for strong authentication and provides crypto processing.
HW Hardware
IMG Image signing certificate in HAB
IoT The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects.
IP Intellectual Property
ISG Installation and Setup Guide
IV Initialization Vector
Jenkins Open source automation server www.jenkins.io
JWE JSON Web Encryption rfc7516
Kubernetes(K8s) Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
K8s cluster Set of virtual machines implementing the K8 system.
MS Graph Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365.
Nginx Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server.
OCI The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is a Linux Foundation project, started in June 2015 by Docker, to design open standards for operating-system-level virtualization (software containers), most importantly Linux containers.
PKI Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a set of roles, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store & revoke
digital certificates and manage public-key encryption.
Prometheus Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting toolkit.
R&D Research and Development
REST Representational State Transfer (REST)
RSA RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is one of the first public-key cryptosystems.
SGK Subordinate key of the SRK key and is used to verify signatures across product software.
SRK Super Root Key. An RSA key pair, which forms the start of the boot-time authentication chain.
SRK Hash Hash value of the SRK table.
Sub-CA Subordinate Certificate Authority
SW Software
TLS Transport Layer Security
UML Unified Modeling Language
X.509 X.509 is a standard defining the format of public key certificates. rfc5280
YAML (a recursive acronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language") is a human-readable data-serialization language.
# Commands prefixed with this are run as root
$ Commands prefixed with this are run as user