Category: Glossary

Flux CD is a GitOps tool for Kubernetes that continuously reconciles cluster state with configurations stored in Git repositories.

Serverless computing is a cloud execution model where the provider manages all infrastructure and you pay only for the compute time your code uses.

Secrets management is the practice of securely storing, accessing, distributing, and rotating sensitive credentials like API keys and certificates.

Amazon RDS is a managed service that simplifies deploying, operating, and scaling relational databases in the cloud.

A Kubernetes Operator is a custom controller that extends Kubernetes to automate the management of complex applications using domain-specific knowledge.

containerd is an industry-standard container runtime that manages the complete container lifecycle, serving as the default runtime for Kubernetes.

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that collects time-series metrics using a pull model, designed for cloud-native environments.

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that provides standardized APIs and tools for collecting metrics, logs, and traces.

Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing platform that helps teams monitor and troubleshoot latency issues in microservices architectures.

Loki is a log aggregation system built by Grafana Labs that indexes metadata instead of log content, making it efficient and cost-effective.