Terminology#

Throughout this documentation the following terms are often used and you it’s good if you are familiar with them:

template: A Git repository which are rendered into incarnation. A template consists of a template/ folder and a fengine.yaml configuration file.

incarnation: A Git repository which is a concrete instance of a rendered template. It may or may not contain customizations specific to that incarnation.

change: Represents an update that was performed by foxops on an incarnation repository. For example when updating it to a newer template version or when changing variable values. Every change is assigned a revision number - with the latest change having the highest revision.