From a24ae9331e23c8c933430604124096debc99dd56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zane Bitter Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:36:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Clearer definition of PaaS Replace a potentially misleading example and add a bit of detail to the definition. Change-Id: I9b80b693d8c36742e20f04e8facbdff3dbf0838e --- doc/common/glossary.rst | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/common/glossary.rst b/doc/common/glossary.rst index 009dd6ad93..83a03c1876 100644 --- a/doc/common/glossary.rst +++ b/doc/common/glossary.rst @@ -2863,11 +2863,12 @@ P Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) - Provides to the consumer the ability to deploy applications - through a programming language or tools supported by the cloud - platform provider. An example of Platform-as-a-Service is an - Eclipse/Java programming platform provided with no downloads - required. + Provides to the consumer an operating system and, often, a + language runtime and libraries (collectively, the "platform") + upon which they can run their own application code, without + providing any control over the underlying infrastructure. + Examples of Platform-as-a-Service providers include Cloud Foundry + and OpenShift. plug-in