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BOSH

The tool used to install Cloud Foundry. Docs

The meaning of the acronym has been described as Basic Outer Shell or BOSH Outer Shell. It's also rumoured to have been derived from Google's BORG (next letter from R & G are S & H).

CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID

A security problem in some software (aka vulnerability or hole). Usually requiring us to update our installed version.

The name comes from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database that assigns a unique identifier to each security problem.

Example: CVE-2016-6651 is the CVE ID for a problem whereby someone with a cloudfoundry account could become an admin user and do things they shouldn't be able to.

RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service

Amazon's "database on demand" service

AWS in plain English thinks it should have been called Amazon SQL

UAA - User Account and Authentication Server

A component of Cloud Foundry that deals with users:

  • signing in
  • whether people have permissions to do a thing
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