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Terms
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As Phil Karlson [once said](http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html):
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> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and
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> naming things.
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Over time, various terms and synonyms for those terms generate some
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controversy, and different teams end up using different words to reference the
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same object or resource. This document serves to record decisions that were
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made regarding certain terms, and attempts to succinctly define each term.
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* **project** vs. **tenant**
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**project** shall be used to describe the concept of a group of OpenStack
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users that share a common set of quotas. The older term **tenant** should
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*not* be used in OpenStack REST APIs.
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* **server** vs. **instance**
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**server** shall be used to describe a virtual machine, a
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bare-metal machine, or a containerized virtual machine that is used
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by OpenStack users for compute purposes. The older term
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**instance** that is also by Amazon Web Services EC2 API to
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describe a virtual machine, should *not* be used in OpenStack REST
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APIs.
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