DevOps Glossary

Defining and managing infrastructure, configurations, or processes using code, enabling version control, automation, and reproducibility.

Measure of system availability, expressed as a percentage. E.g., "five nines" means 99.999% uptime, allowing for minimal downtime.

Unified display or interface that integrates data from multiple sources, providing a comprehensive view of system status or operations.

Comparing two versions of a webpage or app to determine which performs better, based on user interaction and conversion rates.

Using AI and machine learning to enhance IT operations, automating tasks and providing insights for better decision-making.

Distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets to improve availability and fault tolerance.

Application Programming Interface; set of protocols and tools for building software applications and enabling communication between systems.

Process of identifying and documenting available APIs within an organization or from external sources.

Specific URL where an API can be accessed and where requests are sent to interact with a server or service.

Manages, secures, and routes API requests, acting as a single entry point for multiple microservices or backend systems.

Process of creating, publishing, documenting, and analyzing APIs in a secure environment.

Tracking API performance, availability, and usage to ensure optimal functionality and identify issues.

The duration between sending a request to an API and receiving the response, crucial for performance evaluation.

Measures and practices to protect APIs from unauthorized access, attacks, and data breaches.

Managing different versions of an API to maintain compatibility while allowing updates and improvements.

Feature in cloud computing that automatically adjusts the number of instances based on defined conditions.

Observing and analyzing the performance and behavior of applications built with ASP.Net Core framework.

Type of identity theft where an attacker gains unauthorized access to a user's account.

Cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services for computing, storage, networking, and more.

Suite of tools provided by AWS for building, testing, and deploying applications on their cloud platform.

Command-line interface for interacting with AWS services, allowing users to manage resources and automate tasks.

Monitoring and observability service for AWS resources and applications, providing metrics, logs, and alarms.

Fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to various compute services.

Continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates.

Elastic Compute Cloud; scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud for running virtual servers.