DevOps Glossary

Degree of technical assistance provided for a product or service, often tiered based on response times and scope of support.

Set of tools for designing, building, documenting, and consuming RESTful web services.

General-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple.

Monitoring technique that uses scripted recordings or transactions to simulate user activity.

Open-source system-level exploration and troubleshooting tool for Linux systems, providing deep visibility into system behavior.

Standard for message logging, often used in Unix and Unix-like systems for system management and security auditing.

Team responsible for building and maintaining the platforms used by stream-aligned teams.

Digital certificate that authenticates a website's identity and enables an encrypted connection.

Patterns of activities or methods associated with a specific threat actor or group of threat actors.

Technique used to identify and track data in a program that has been tainted with user input.

Organizational design approach focused on optimizing team interactions and boundaries for effective software delivery.

Powerful and user-friendly continuous integration server by JetBrains, supporting various version control systems and build tools.

Implied cost of future rework caused by choosing quick, easy solutions now instead of better, more time-consuming approaches.

Set of technologies used to build and run a single application, including programming languages, frameworks, and tools.

Automated process of collecting data at remote points and transmitting it to receiving equipment for monitoring.

Telemetry is continuous data collection, while logging is recording specific events.

In multi-tenant architecture, distinct groups of users who share a common access with specific privileges to the software instance.

Open-source infrastructure as code software tool that enables defining and provisioning data center infrastructure using a declarative language.

Managed service offering of Terraform for teams and organizations, providing collaboration features and workflow management.

Use of software to execute tests and compare actual outcomes with predicted outcomes.

Approach of automating all possible tests in the software development process to improve quality and efficiency.

Process of creating, managing, and maintaining test data for software testing, ensuring data quality and relevance.

Setup of software and hardware on which the testing team performs testing of a new build.

Process of planning, creating, maintaining, and managing environments for software testing, ensuring consistency and reliability.

Tool for testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms, supporting multiple providers and test frameworks.