DevOps Glossary

Lightweight movable pointer to a commit in Git version control, allowing for parallel development and experimentation.

Storage location for a Git project, containing all the files and their revision history.

Web-based hosting service for version control using Git, offering collaboration features, code review, and integration with various development tools.

GitHub's built-in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, allowing automated build, test, and deployment workflows.

Web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager with wiki, issue-tracking and CI/CD pipeline features.

Framework applying DevOps best practices like version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD to infrastructure automation.

Software agent that implements GitOps practices, reconciling the desired state in Git with the actual state of the system.

Git workflow that defines a strict branching model designed around the project release.

GitLab's built-in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tool, allowing automated testing and deployment of code changes.

Open-source continuous delivery server to model and visualize complex workflows.

Pre-configured template for a virtual machine, used to create standardized instances.

Platform as a Service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.

Suite of cloud computing services running on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally.

The policies, controls, and standards to ensure compliance, security, and quality across the software delivery pipeline while maintaining agility and efficiency.

Powerful build automation tool that supports multi-language development and offers a flexible, plugin-based architecture for customization.

Open-source platform for monitoring and observability, allowing users to visualize, alert on, and understand metrics from various data sources.

Monitoring tool that stores numeric time-series data and renders graphs of this data on demand.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; U.S. legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information.

Messages sent by clients to initiate actions on servers, forming the foundation of data communication on the World Wide Web.

Framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers.

Tool for securely accessing secrets like API keys, passwords, and certificates, central to modern secret management strategies.

Continuous monitoring of a system or service to check if it's operational, often used in high-availability setups.

Package format for defining, installing, and upgrading complex Kubernetes applications, simplifying the deployment process.

Cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages, used for deploying, managing, and scaling modern apps.

Characteristic of a system designed to avoid loss of service by reducing or managing failures.