Developers, DevOps, and Operators

These terms have distinct meanings here:

• Regular first class capitation includes, at the user's discretion, developer entitlement. F class users may prefer to remain non-developers to only see what is appropriate to their premium service level and eliminate developer oriented distraction. They may enable/disable it at will. Developer status does not imply that the user is a trained IT professional but does imply that she will use the system in development capacity, e.g. to generate apps or code, modify system elements within their purview.


• DevOps is a distinct level of privilege and entitlement from Developer status which requires a billable account and does assume at least the common professional dilettante level of IT competence. Like developer status, it is a matter of enabling when you have F class entitlement but additionally a billable account is required as unlike simple Developer status, DevOps users are not limited to F class resource entitlement. They can be billed for resources provided from Core DS inventory or use their own accounts with supported vendors.


• Operators are O class users, those who are operating domain spaces as networks autonomous from but optionally cooperating with Core DS. They will normally run the FRED nodes and use DCP and MCP to support their namespace but might not participate in the social network or use it but with a different node type than the geonode. Independent operators of geonodes may do so in any of these three roles, with differing degrees of ability to diverge from the common network base.