====== Infrastructure Resource ======

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===== Discussion =====

An Infrastructure Resource is a resource that supplies computing, storage, networking, security, identity, management, or related capabilities within an [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:i:infrastructure_environment|Infrastructure Environment]].

Infrastructure Resources may include:

  * Physical computing resources
  * Virtual computing resources
  * Storage resources
  * Network resources
  * Identity resources
  * Security resources
  * Load-balancing resources
  * Monitoring resources
  * Logging resources
  * Name-resolution resources
  * Key-management resources
  * Provider-managed services

An Infrastructure Resource may be:

  * Created
  * Configured
  * Allocated
  * Associated with other resources
  * Updated
  * Replaced
  * Released
  * Transferred
  * Retired

An Infrastructure Resource differs from an [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:i:infrastructure_configuration|Infrastructure Configuration]]:

  * An Infrastructure Resource supplies an infrastructure capability
  * An Infrastructure Configuration specifies the desired state of Infrastructure Resources and their relationships

An Infrastructure Resource may be physical, virtual, logical, or provider-managed.

===== Definition =====

//resource that supplies computing, storage, networking, security, identity, management, or related capability within an [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:i:infrastructure_environment|Infrastructure Environment]]//

===== Source =====

Dido Solutions, Inc. and Jackrabbit Consulting, Inc.

===== Note =====

An Infrastructure Resource does not by itself establish that the resource is:

  * Configured correctly
  * Authorized for use
  * Compliant with an applicable [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:b:baseline|Baseline]]
  * Available
  * Secure
  * Suitable for a specified purpose

Separate requirements govern those determinations.

The term does not prescribe a particular provider, resource model, deployment technology, management interface, or implementation platform.

===== Example =====

A virtual network, compute instance, storage volume, identity role, and logging service are Infrastructure Resources within a production Infrastructure Environment.

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