Cluster

The cluster is a collection of Baidu AI Cloud resources. These cloud resources include the necessary conditions for running CCE, which usually refers to several cloud servers BCC, GPU servers, FPGA servers, Baidu Baremetal Compute (BBC), etc.

Node

The node is a single server resource registered to the container cluster and contains all necessary conditions for running the container.

Image

Docker image is used to deploy container services. The image name can be customized by users.

Image repository

Image repository is the exclusive Docker image storage space for users, which runs on Baidu AI Cloud container service, and Baidu AI Cloud is responsible for ensuring reliability, security and performance.

Container

The container corresponds to the Pod concept of Kubernetes. The container has independent storage, IP, port, namespace and configuration, and is the smallest unit of Baidu AI Cloud container service deployment.

Service

A service is a set of the same containers configured and rules on how to access them, that is, the deployment unit in the microservice architecture, which is the smallest running unit of the user's business application.