Category: Glossary

An error budget is the maximum amount of unreliability a service can tolerate within its SLO, used to balance feature velocity with reliability.

Chaos engineering is the practice of intentionally injecting failures into a system to test its resilience and uncover weaknesses before real incidents occur.

A blameless postmortem is a structured review of an incident that focuses on understanding what happened and preventing recurrence without assigning blame.

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

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

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.

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.