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Various cloud providers use different terms like images, flavours, nodes,
servers etc. We will just use terms used in libcloud internally.
- Node
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Single instance of virtual server on the cloud.
- Image
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Understand it as a server template, the base from your nodes
will deliver from.
- Size
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Size of the node, i.e. hardware features of node.
It could imply RAM, disk space and so on.
Roman Bogorodskiy
2011-05-30