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  • Tenant: The primary isolation boundary in Kupe Cloud. A tenant owns clusters, secrets, members, API keys, and billing.
  • Managed Cluster: A Kupe Cloud cluster created and operated through the platform.
  • Shared Cluster: A managed cluster that runs on shared platform capacity.
  • Dedicated Cluster: A managed cluster with dedicated capacity for a single tenant.
  • GitOps: An operating model where Git is the source of truth and a controller reconciles live state to match it.
  • Argo CD Application: A resource that defines where manifests come from and where they are deployed.
  • AppProject: An Argo CD project that defines allowed repositories and destinations for a set of applications.
  • Gateway: A Gateway API resource that provides ingress infrastructure.
  • HTTPRoute: A Gateway API resource that defines hostname, path matching, and backend routing.
  • Custom Domain: A tenant-owned domain name mapped to an application running on Kupe Cloud.
  • Secret: A platform-managed secret definition stored in the Kupe-managed vault.
  • Sync Target: A cluster and namespace pair that a managed secret is delivered to.
  • OIDC kubeconfig: A kubeconfig that uses interactive login and short-lived tokens for CLI access.
  • Token kubeconfig: A kubeconfig that uses a generated bearer token for automation.
  • API Key: A tenant-scoped credential for machine-to-machine access to the Kupe API.
  • Grafana Explore: Grafana’s query interface for inspecting logs and metrics directly.
  • Headlamp: The Kubernetes UI surfaced through the Kupe console for workload and cluster interaction.
  • SLO: Service Level Objective, a measurable reliability target for a service.