Terminology

Broker: Brokers are responsible for handling dynamic permissioning in remote environments.

Broker pool: A broker pool is a collection of one or more brokers. Broker pools are created and managed by Britive.

Broker Pool Token: All brokers in one broker pool have the same token, which is exchanged between the broker and Britive.

Resource: A resource is anything you can manage access and permissions for including servers (physical, virtual), databases, applications (commercial, OSS, homegrown), or even networking hardware.

Resource Types: Resource Types are used to define resources.

Resource Labels: Resource labels tag resources and consist of key-value pairs, where each key may contain multiple values.