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-====== Jargon / Reference Index ======
-Short definitions for terms, acronyms, and project names used in this wiki.
-===== Virtualisation and Compute =====
-  * **Xen** - older virtualisation platform used by the stack. Being migrated toward KVM.
-  * **KVM** - Linux kernel virtualisation used with QEMU.
-  * **QEMU** - VM emulator/userland component used with KVM.
-  * **OVMF** - UEFI firmware for KVM guests.
-  * **HostDaemon** - daemon on compute hosts that executes guest lifecycle and networking commands.
-  * **xm** - legacy Xen management/configuration tooling.
-  * **xm-for-kvm** - migration tooling for moving workloads from Xen to KVM.
-  * **power-limiter** - compute host power capping/throttling tooling.
-===== Networking =====
-  * **netns** - Linux network namespace.
-  * **iptables** - Linux firewall/routing rules system used by guest networking scripts.
-  * **qemu-network** - scripts that apply guest networking and firewall rules.
-  * **routed** - routing daemon integration on compute hosts.
-  * **BIRD** - routing daemon used for BGP/OSPF-style routing.
-  * **BGP / EBGP** - Border Gateway Protocol; external BGP is used for provider/edge routing.
-  * **NDP** - IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol, roughly analogous to ARP for IPv4.
-  * **neigh-proxy** - neighbour proxy service for VM network address resolution.
-  * **eBPF** - kernel packet filtering/programming facility used by some routing/networking code.
-===== Application Stack =====
-  * **ASP.NET Core** - modern .NET web framework used by newer web/API components.
-  * **MonoRail** - older Castle/Mono MVC framework used by legacy panel code.
-  * **Castle** - .NET framework/components used by legacy application code.
-  * **NHibernate** - object-relational mapper used by the .NET stack.
-  * **Log4Net** - logging framework.
-  * **Velocity templates** - ''.vm'' templates used by legacy/framework code.
-  * **SPA** - single-page application frontend.
-  * **CQRS** - Command Query Responsibility Segregation; separates command/write flows from query/read flows.
-===== Product and Business Systems =====
-  * **VPS** - Virtual Private Server, the core product.
-  * **MammothVps** - Mammoth/BinaryLane VPS application namespace/project naming.
-  * **Mpay** - payment-processing system.
-  * **Dynamic_RS** - dynamic resource reservation logic.
-  * **Bootstrap** - host provisioning system.
-  * **vmbuilder** - VM image builder.
-  * **guest-agent** - software installed inside guest VMs for stats/reporting.
-  * **BackupProxy** - backup download proxy.
-  * **Looking Glass** - network diagnostic tool such as BGP/traceroute lookups.
-  * **rescueproxy** - VNC/rescue access proxy.
-===== Operations Tools =====
-  * **Ansible** - infrastructure automation/playbooks.
-  * **Icinga** - monitoring system. If you see "incinga", it probably means Icinga.
-  * **Butler** - internal bot/automation service.
-  * **Tron** - internal job scheduler.
-  * **Morbo** - service health-check application.
-  * **BATS** - Bash Automated Testing System.
-  * **glab** - GitLab CLI.
-  * **GitLab CI/CD** - pipeline and deployment automation.
-===== Miscellaneous =====
-  * **IPMI** - out-of-band hardware management for physical servers.
-  * **isobuilder** - ISO/image builder for provisioning.
-  * **GBMT** - infrastructure tooling area; needs deeper source review before a stronger definition.