Reference
Glossary
Translate the technical words used by the guide into plain English.
Guide difficulty⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beginner Friendly
Estimated time⏱️ Around 20–40 minutesEstimated for a first-time user.
- Container
- An isolated package containing an application and what it needs to run.
- Docker
- The system used to run and manage containers.
- Hostname
- The human-readable name assigned to a device on the network.
- IP address
- A numerical network address used to reach a device.
- Mount
- The act of attaching a filesystem to a folder so Linux can use it.
- RAID
- A method of combining several physical drives into one managed array. It is not a separate backup.
- Reverse proxy
- A service that receives web requests and passes each one to the correct internal application.
- SSH
- An encrypted terminal connection to another computer.
- Volume mapping
- A rule connecting a real host folder to a path visible inside a container.