Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
A virtual machine hosted in Microsoft Azure that runs all of a project's services, stores its data, and exposes its APIs. Every project runs on one or more Azure VMs. A VM is a physical boundary — services on different VMs never share memory, filesystem, or databases; they communicate only over the network.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: System service
The VM is the machine; a system service is one long-running program on it.
Not: Service
An Azure VM is physical hosting; a Carolverse service is a line of business. They are unrelated senses of the word.
🧭The nuance
carol-vm (IP 20.113.129.100, resource group carol-vm-rg, size B2ms, 8GB RAM, Ubuntu 24.04, user caroladmin). Hosts the full Carol ecosystem. Receives all public traffic via a Cloudflare tunnel on carol.denken-labs.com.
🗣️Also called
VMvirtual machinethe box