Category: Glossary

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.

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.

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

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

A Kubernetes namespace is a virtual partition within a cluster that isolates resources and provides scope for names, access controls, and resource quotas.