MeteorOps | DevOps Glossary

AWS

Advanced and evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon.

AWS App Mesh

AWS App Mesh manages service-to-service communication for microservices on AWS, providing traffic routing, observability, and resilience controls.

AWS IoT

Managed AWS platform for securely connecting IoT devices and handling their data.

AWS Lambda

Run code as events occur without managing servers.

Active Directory

Microsoft Active Directory centralizes identity, authentication, and access control for users and computers across Windows domain networks.

Ansible

Automates IT tasks with clear, easy-to-read playbooks.

Argo CD

GitOps continuous delivery tool that syncs Kubernetes cluster state to Git-defined application configurations and automates deployments.

Branching

Creating separate code branches to develop and test changes independently before merging into the main codebase.

Cloud

Remotely accessible servers for storage, computing, and networking.

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery automates testing and packaging each code change so releases can be deployed to production safely and quickly.

Continuous Integration

Regularly merging code and testing to catch issues early.

DevOps

Practices that bridge development and IT operations for faster delivery.

Development Environment

A safe space to write, run, and test code before it goes live.

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine for fast, scalable data indexing and retrieval.

Flux CD

GitOps controller for Kubernetes that continuously reconciles cluster state to match Git-defined application and infrastructure configurations.

GCP

A wide range of cloud computing services offered by Google

GCP BigQuery

A Google Cloud data warehouse for fast SQL queries on large datasets.

GitOps

GitOps automates infrastructure and software deployment using Git as a single source of truth.

Grafana Tempo

Open source distributed tracing backend from Grafana Labs that stores and queries traces at scale with minimal indexing.

Groovy

Dynamic JVM language that streamlines Java development with concise scripting, automation, and rapid application prototyping.

Helm

Kubernetes package manager that bundles application manifests into versioned charts for repeatable installation, upgrades, and configuration management.

Istio

Istio is an open-source service mesh for securing, monitoring, and managing microservices at scale.

Jenkins

Jenkins is an open-source automation server for CI/CD, enabling continuous build, test, and deployment.

KRO

KRO Kube Resource Orchestrator defines rules to generate and manage multiple Kubernetes resources consistently from a single configuration.

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AWS