Category: Glossary

Pod Security Standards define three security levels — Privileged, Baseline, and Restricted — to enforce consistent Kubernetes pod security.

SLSA is a security framework that protects the integrity of software artifacts throughout the supply chain.

Multi-cloud uses services from multiple cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in and improve resilience.

Falco is an open-source runtime security tool that detects anomalous behavior and threats in containers and Kubernetes in real time.

AWS ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies running Docker containers on AWS.

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that runs tasks without managing server infrastructure.

Amazon EBS provides persistent block-level storage volumes for EC2 instances and containerized workloads.

The four golden signals are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation — the key metrics every production service should monitor.

The RED method monitors three key metrics for request-driven services: Rate, Errors, and Duration.

The USE method monitors infrastructure resources by tracking Utilization, Saturation, and Errors for every resource.