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AWS Proton terminology - AWS Proton
Environment template

Defines shared infrastructure, such as a VPC or cluster, that is used by multiple applications or resources.

Environment template bundle

A collection of files that you upload to create and register an environment template in AWS Proton. An environment template bundle contains the following:

  1. A schema file that defines infrastructure as code input parameters.

  2. An infrastructure as code (IaC) file that defines shared infrastructure, such as a VPC or cluster, that is used by multiple applications or resources.

  3. A manifest file that lists the IaC file.

Environment

Provisioned shared infrastructure, such as a VPC or cluster, that is used by multiple applications or resources.

Service template

Defines the type of infrastructure that's needed to deploy and maintain an application or microservice in an environment.

Service template bundle

A collection of files that you upload to create and register a service template in AWS Proton. A service template bundle contains the following:

  1. A schema file that defines infrastructure as code (IaC) input parameters.

  2. An IaC file that defines the infrastructure that's needed to deploy and maintain an application or microservice in an environment.

  3. A manifest file that lists the IaC file.

  4. Optional

    1. An IaC file that defines the service pipeline infrastructure.

    2. A manifest file that lists the IaC file.

Service

Provisioned infrastructure that's needed to deploy and maintain an application or microservice in an environment.

Service instance

Provisioned infrastructure that supports an application or microservice in an environment.

Service pipeline

Provisioned infrastructure that supports a pipeline.

Template version

A major or minor version of a template. For more information, see Versioned templates.

Input parameters

Defined in a schema file and used in an infrastructure as code (IaC) file so that the IaC file can be used repeatably and for a variety of use cases.

Schema file

Defines infrastructure as code file input parameters.

Spec file

Specifies values for infrastructure as code file input parameters, as defined in a schema file.

Manifest file

Lists an infrastructure as code file.

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