Category: Glossary

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

An SLO is an internal target for a service’s reliability, expressed as a percentage of successful operations over a defined time period.