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Glossary should be used to describe common terms used in Manila's
documentation. Starting using it for "manila-share", "manila-api" and
"manila-scheduler".

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Glossary

Manila

OpenStack project to provide "Shared Filesystems as a service".

manila-api

Service that provides a stable RESTful API. The service authenticates and routes requests throughout the Shared Filesystem service. There is python-manilaclient to interact with the API.

python-manilaclient

Command line interface to interact with Manila via manila-api and also a Python module to interact programmatically with Manila.

manila-scheduler

Responsible for scheduling/routing requests to the appropriate manila-share service. It does that by picking one back-end while filtering all except one back-end.

manila-share

Responsible for managing Shared File Service devices, specifically the back-end devices.