Glossary
- Berksfile
- the file
berksloads to determine sources and dependencies - Berkshelf
- a tool to resolve cookbook dependencies
- hypervisor
- a piece of software that allows one to create and run virtual machines
- regular expression
- a “a sequence of characters that define a search pattern”, in the context of kitchen we allow a user to specify instances with regular expressions like
^default-ubuntu - Vagrant
- a piece of software that makes abstracts away hypervisor details to provide a consistent experience and interface to virtual machines
- virtual machine
- a machine that is virtualized, i.e. running on a hypervisor
- VirtualBox
- a freely available hypervisor from Oracle
- VMware Fusion
- a for-pay hypervisor from VMware exclusively for macOS/OS X
- VMware Workstation
- a for-pay hypervisor from VMware for Linux and Windows