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And link them to the more detailed specification.

This borrows from appc, which calls the launched process tree "the
app" [1].  I don't see a point to abbreviating it, so I've gone with
"application".

Subsection titles for the entries will be obnoxiously spacious, but
the other alternatives seem worse:

a. An HTML definition list (<dl>) would have nice default styling, but
   it's annoying to write raw HTML.  And we would have needed
   something like:

     <dt name="bundle">Bundle</dt>
     <dd>

     A [directory structure](bundle.md) that is...

     </dd>

   to get Markdown-style links in the defintion itself.

b. A Markdown list (* ...) would have reasonable default styling, but
   there's no Markdown syntax for adding anchors to the entries.  And
   a glossary is much less useful if you can't link to a specific
   entry.

[1]: opencontainers#88 (comment)

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <[email protected]>
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# Glossary

## Application

A process tree launched inside a [container](#container).

## Bundle

A [directory structure](bundle.md) that is written ahead of time, distributed, and used to seed the runtime for creating [containers](#container) and launching [applications](#application).

## Configuration

A [file](config.md) in a [bundle](#bundle) which defines the intended [container](#container) and [application](#application).

## Container

An environment setup for the [application](#application) (namespaces, resource limits, mounts, …).

## Runtime

An implementation of this specification.
It reads a [configuration file](#configuration) from a [bundle](#bundle), uses that information to create a [container](#container), and launches an [application](#application) inside the container.

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