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Glossary

Term Definition
Certificate Authority An entity that signs, and issues digital certificates
CRD Custom Resource Definition: an extension of the Kubernetes API
Downtime A period of time where the workload is unintentionally inaccessible
Ingress Controller Specialized load balancers for Kubernetes and other containerized environments
Machine Identity X.509 certificates, SSH keys, code signing certificates, etc., used to secure applications, traffic, code & organizations
Machine Identity Management Control Plane The holistic platform/service, along with the cultivation & curation of the vast marketplace of solutions, tools & frameworks offered by Venafi and the ecosystem
TLS Protect Cloud Venafi's SaaS offering (formerly known as Venafi as a Service)
TLS Protect Datacenter Venafi's Datacenter offering (formerly known as Trust Protection Platform
TLS Protect For Kubernetes Jetstack's SaaS offering (formerly known as Jetstack Secure)
WAF Web Application Firewall: used to protect web apps from malicious traffic
Workloads A process or any location where compute resources are consumed. Workloads in Kubernetes are pods