P
PFS
= Perfect Forward Secrecy
Peering:
In the case of
VPC
s, the mechanism by which a network in one project is connected to a netork in another project.
Pod:
in Kubernetes, a wrapper around 1+ container(s), which is the smallest unit of creation/deployment
Represents a running process on the cluster, as either an application component, or an entire application
Most pods only contain one container, but several can be present, and share networking and storage
Provides a unique
IP
address and open ports for the containers
PoP = Point of Presence
A public datacenter containing Google hardware to connect Google's network to the Internet via peering
> 160 around the world, not counting edge caches
Sometimes called Edge PoP. Compare with
Region
Principal: in
IAM
, the subject in an access policy
usually identified by an email address