name: Cycloid Vocabulary
description: >-
  Controlled vocabulary describing the core concepts of the Cycloid
  Internal Developer Portal & Platform: organizations, projects,
  environments, stacks (Service Catalog), pipelines, infrastructure
  resources, credentials, config repositories, and cloud cost
  dashboards.
modified: '2026-04-28'
terms:
  - term: Organization
    description: A top-level Cycloid tenant identified by a canonical slug, owning members, teams, projects, and stacks.
    properties:
      - canonical
      - name
      - members
      - teams
  - term: Project
    description: A unit of work inside an organization grouping environments, pipelines, and infrastructure.
    properties:
      - canonical
      - name
      - environments
  - term: Environment
    description: A deployable target (e.g., dev / staging / prod) inside a project.
  - term: Stack
    description: A reusable Service Catalog template combining Terraform, configuration, and StackForms used to power self-service.
    properties:
      - ref
      - name
      - author
      - version
  - term: StackForm
    description: A user-facing form definition used to collect inputs when deploying a Stack.
  - term: Pipeline
    description: A CI/CD pipeline (Concourse-based) attached to a project for build and deploy automation.
  - term: InfrastructureResource
    description: A managed cloud resource tracked in the Cycloid inventory.
  - term: Credential
    description: A securely stored credential (cloud key, SSH key, password, custom) referenced by stacks and pipelines.
  - term: ConfigRepository
    description: A Git repository holding stack configuration referenced by Cycloid stacks.
  - term: CloudCostDashboard
    description: A FinOps dashboard aggregating cloud spend by provider, project, tag, or environment.