A glossary of terms used by and within NAF. If you'd like to contribute to, or see revisions to some of these terms, discussion occurs in Network Automation Forum Slack in channel #doc-autonomicon.
Automation : software or other tooling designed to complete a task with no human intervention
Idempotent : a process or task that can be run multiple times and always reach the desired outcome
Orchestration : software or other tooling designed to complete a series of tasks with no human intervention in a workflow based on a defined set of inputs
Workflow : a series of ordered tasks, with potentially conditional execution, designed to complete a work process with minimal or no human intervention