Glossary

App

A website or service created, tracked, and published through the portal.

App owner

The primary person responsible for an app. Owners can manage collaborators and delete scoped resources.

Azure

Microsoft's cloud platform. The portal uses Azure to host running apps and related app-specific resources.

Codex

An AI coding assistant that can help create or change an app's files. Finished changes must reach the managed GitHub repository before the portal can publish them.

Collaborator

A Cedarville coworker invited to help manage an app in the portal. GitHub repository access is requested separately.

Database

Structured storage used when an app must remember records such as requests, approvals, or tracker entries.

Deployment

A particular attempt to build and send the app to Azure. Publishing starts a deployment.

Environment variable

A named runtime setting supplied outside the app's code. It may contain a normal configuration value or a secret.

GitHub

The service Cedarville uses to store app code, record changes, collaborate, and run publishing workflows.

Managed repository

The private GitHub repository created or imported by the portal and treated as the supported source of truth.

Cedarville sign-in used to identify users and control who may enter an app.

Publish

Build and send the current managed GitHub version to Azure so it can run in a web browser.

Publishing setup

The GitHub workflow, Azure resources, secrets, and credentials that allow the portal to publish an app safely.

Support reference

A safe identifier that helps Cedarville IT find technical records for a failed or important action.

Template

An approved starting point that supplies common app files, features, and Cedarville defaults.

ZIP artifact

A downloadable snapshot of generated app files. It is useful for convenience or recovery but is not the preferred source for ongoing development.