Day: May 21, 2026

HashiCorp Vault is a secrets management platform that securely stores, accesses, and manages sensitive data like API keys and certificates.

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform built into GitHub that lets you automate builds, tests, and deployments triggered by repository events.

A CI/CD pipeline automates the process of building, testing, and deploying software, enabling teams to deliver changes quickly and reliably.

Infrastructure as Code is the practice of managing and provisioning infrastructure through machine-readable configuration files rather than manual processes.

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code tool that lets you define, provision, and manage cloud resources using declarative configuration files.

Log aggregation is the process of collecting, centralizing, and organizing logs from multiple sources into a single system for analysis.

Auto scaling automatically adjusts compute resources based on demand, scaling up during traffic spikes and down during quiet periods.

Distributed tracing tracks requests as they flow through multiple services, providing visibility into latency, errors, and dependencies.

MTTR measures the average time it takes to restore a system to normal operation after a failure or incident occurs.

A load balancer distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server is overwhelmed, improving availability and performance.