Terms and Definitions#
NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) |
NVIDIA Cloud Partner: A partner that purchases the NVIDIA HW Reference Architecture (RA) to build a data center for hosting AI workloads. |
Kubernetes as a Service |
An automated mechanism to quickly stand up Kubernetes clusters for end customers. |
Concurrent Multi-Tenancy |
Concurrent multi-tenancy describes scenarios where more than one tenant has access (directly or indirectly) / is active on a physical host at any point in time. |
Worker Host |
A bare metal server that is building the foundation for the control plane as well as worker hosts. |
Worker Node |
A virtualized compute resource on a physical host, commonly referred to as “Guest Virtual Machine”. The worker node is the resource that is used by tenants to execute their workloads. |
Shared Host |
A worker host that is shared between two tenants (concurrent multi-tenancy on the host). |
Dedicated Control Plane |
A Kubernetes control plane (or similar) that is operating workloads of one tenant and one tenant only within the cluster. |