Author: Obsium.ai

A Pod Disruption Budget limits the number of pods that can be voluntarily disrupted at once, ensuring minimum availability during maintenance.

MTTD measures the average time between when a problem occurs and when the team becomes aware of it.

An SLA is a formal contract between a service provider and customer defining expected service levels and penalties for breaches.

An SLI is a quantitative measure of a specific aspect of service performance, such as availability, latency, or error rate.

Alertmanager handles alert routing, deduplication, grouping, and silencing for Prometheus monitoring.

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and routing from multiple sources to various destinations.

Crossplane extends Kubernetes to manage cloud infrastructure resources like databases and storage as native Kubernetes objects.

Feature flags are toggles that control which features are visible to users, allowing teams to deploy code without immediately releasing it.

Immutable infrastructure means servers are never modified after deployment — they are replaced entirely with new versions.

Tekton is a Kubernetes-native CI/CD framework that defines pipelines as custom resources, running tasks as pods.