Appendix I. Glossary

I.1. Product and project names
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developers.redhat.com/launch: developers.redhat.com/launch is a stand-alone getting started experience offered by Red Hat for jumpstarting cloud-native application development on OpenShift. It provides a way of creating functional example applications as well as an easy way to build and deploy these example applications on OpenShift.
Fabric8 Launcher: The Fabric8 Launcher is the upstream project on which developers.redhat.com/launch is based.
Minishift or CDK: An OpenShift cluster running on your machine using Minishift.

Example

An application specification, for example a web service with a REST API.

Examples generally do not specify which language or platform they should run on; the description only contains the intended functionality.

Example application

A language-specific implementation of a particular example on a particular runtime. Example applications are listed in an examples catalog.

For example, an example application is a web service with a REST API implemented using the Thorntail runtime.

Examples Catalog: A Git repository that contains information about example applications.

Runtime: A platform that executes an example application. For example, Thorntail or Eclipse Vert.x.