DevOps Glossary

Discover and learn all DevOps terms here.

AWS

Amazon Web Services provides on-demand cloud infrastructure and managed services for deploying, scaling, and operating applications and data workloads.

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

AWS Lambda runs code on AWS without managing servers, scaling automatically in response to events and requests.

Active Directory

Microsoft Active Directory manages centralized identities, authentication, and access policies for users, groups, and computers in Windows domains.

Ansible

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

Argo CD

GitOps continuous delivery tool that deploys and syncs Kubernetes applications from Git, enabling automated rollouts and drift detection.

Branching

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

Cloud

Remote internet-hosted servers that provide on-demand computing, storage, and managed services without running infrastructure locally.

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

Google Cloud managed data warehouse for running fast SQL analytics on large datasets with minimal infrastructure management.

GitOps

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

Grafana Tempo

Grafana Tempo stores and queries distributed tracing data at scale, integrating with Grafana for troubleshooting microservices and latency issues.

Groovy

Groovy is a JVM language used for concise Java scripting, automation, and build tooling with reduced boilerplate.

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 that runs CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy software.

KRO

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