Category: Glossary

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

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

AWS IAM controls who can access which AWS resources and what actions they can perform.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events without requiring you to provision or manage servers.

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

AWS VPC is a logically isolated virtual network within AWS that gives you full control over IP addressing, subnets, routing, and security.

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

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

Canary deployment gradually rolls out changes to a small subset of users before expanding to the entire production environment.

Blue-green deployment runs two identical environments, allowing instant switching between the current and new version with zero downtime.