Day: March 5, 2026

etcd is a distributed key-value store that serves as the backbone of Kubernetes, storing all cluster configuration and state data reliably.

Kubernetes Ingress is an API object that manages external access to services in a cluster, providing HTTP routing, TLS termination, and load balancing.

A container registry is a storage and distribution service for container images, enabling teams to push, pull, and manage images used in deployments.

Istio is an open-source service mesh that provides traffic management, security, and observability for microservices running on Kubernetes.

A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that manages communication between microservices, providing traffic control, security, and observability.

A Kubernetes Deployment is a controller that manages the desired state of pods, handling rolling updates, scaling, and self-healing automatically.

A Kubernetes pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, consisting of one or more containers that share networking and storage resources.

A Kubernetes namespace is a virtual partition within a cluster that isolates resources and provides scope for names, access controls, and resource quotas.

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that simplifies deploying and managing complex applications using reusable templates called charts.