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### Terminology ### Terminology
TODO #### Organizations
- **AppC**: a standards body responsible for a _Runtime_ and _Image Format_ superseded by the _Open Container Initiative_
- **Open Container Initiative**: a standards body responsible for a _Runtime_ specification and an _Image Format_
- **Docker**: a company that builds a platform that has its own _Image Formats_, _Build System_, _Container Runtime_, and _Container Orchestration_
#### Concepts
- **Image**: an archive containing all of the contents necessary to execute a container
- **Image Format**: a specification for the structure of an _Image_
- **Image Layer**: an _Image_ that may depend on being applied to other _Images_ to generate a final _Image_
- **Image Squashing**: the process of compressing an _Image_ into a single _Layer_
- **Manifest**: a text file containing metadata for a particular _Image_
- **Tag**: a human-friendly named, mutable pointer to a particular set of _Images_
- **Build System**: a program used to generate _Images_
- **Registry**: a program that speaks one or more standard protocols to store and receive _Images_
- **Repository**: a collection of related _Tags_ organized by a _Registry_
- **Push**: the act of uploading an _Image_ to a _Registry_
- **Pull**: the act of downloading an _Image_ from a _Registry_
- **Container**: an _Image_ and its execution environment
- **Container Runtime**: a program that can transform an _Image_ into a _Container_ by executing it
- **Container Orchestration**: a program or set of programs that provides a framework for deploying _Containers_
#### Software
- **Quay.io**: CoreOS's hosted _Registry_
- **Quay**: CoreOS's enterprise-grade _Registry_ product
- **quayctl**: an open source program that implements alternative methods for _pulling_ _Images_ from _Quay_
- **Clair**: an open source static analysis tool used to detect vulnerability in _Images_
- **Quay Security Scanning**: the integration between _Clair_ and _Quay_
- **Kubernetes**: an open source program implementing _Container Orchestration_
- **Docker Hub**: Docker's hosted _Registry_
- **Docker Trusted Registry**: Docker's enterprise-grade _Registry_ product
- **Notary**: an open source implementation of the TUF protocol used in _Docker Content Trust_
- **Docker Content Trust**: the integration between _Notary_ and _Docker Trusted Registry)
- **Docker Engine**: a program used to interact with all aspects of the Docker platform
- **Swarm**: a program implementing _Container Orchestration_ for the Docker platform