DevOps Glossary

Dynamic Application Security Testing; analyzes running applications to find vulnerabilities.

Distributed Denial of Service; cyberattack that floods a system with traffic to make it unavailable.

Time taken to query the Domain Name System to translate a domain name into an IP address.

Four key metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, time to restore service, change failure rate) used to measure software delivery performance.

Technique of releasing features to production that are invisible to users until activated, allowing for testing in real environments.

Deploying code or feature flags to production without making them visible to users.

Releasing new features to production that are invisible to users until activated.

Visual displays of key performance indicators and metrics, providing at-a-glance views of business performance or system status.

Incident where sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by unauthorized individuals.

Unauthorized transmission of data from within an organization to an external destination or recipient.

Set of tools and processes to ensure sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.

Protective measures applied to prevent unauthorized access to databases, websites, and computers.

Process of storing, organizing, and managing data in databases, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility.

Practice of keeping different versions of database schemas, often in conjunction with application versioning.

Monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale applications, providing full-stack observability for IT infrastructure and application performance.

Source code that's never executed or has no effect on program output, often a target for removal to improve maintainability and performance.

Defining infrastructure using a descriptive model, focusing on what should be deployed rather than how.

Computing resources exclusively allocated to a single user, project, or organization.

Cybersecurity strategy that employs multiple layers of security controls to protect assets and data from various types of threats.

Agreed-upon set of items that must be completed before a project or user story can be considered complete.

Open-source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that makes it easy to deploy and manage applications.

Cyberattack aimed at making a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.

Tool designed to simplify and automate the process of deploying software applications across different environments and platforms.

Process of making software available and ready for use in a specific environment.

Rate at which new code or features are deployed to production, often used as a key metric in DevOps practices.