Category: Glossary

A runbook is a documented set of procedures for handling specific operational tasks or incidents, enabling consistent and efficient response.

Incident management is the process of detecting, responding to, and resolving service disruptions to restore normal operations as quickly as possible.

Toil is the kind of work tied to running a production service that is manual, repetitive, automatable, and grows linearly with service size.

An IDP is a self-service layer that abstracts infrastructure complexity, enabling developers to deploy and manage applications independently.

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

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.

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

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

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