DevOps Glossary

Generic term for any object used in place of a real object for testing purposes.

Software development process relying on software requirements being converted to test cases before software is fully developed.

Apple's platform for over-the-air installation and beta testing of mobile applications before they are submitted to the App Store.

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

Ability for testers to provision and manage their own test environments, increasing efficiency and autonomy.

Outsourcing of testing activities to a third-party service provider, offering specialized expertise and tools for comprehensive testing.

Logs, metrics, and traces; key components for understanding the behavior of distributed systems.

Principles underpinning DevOps movements: Flow, Feedback, Continual Learning and Experimentation.

Management paradigm that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving its goals by a small number of constraints.

Cybersecurity process of identifying, analyzing, and mitigating threats to an organization's IT infrastructure in real-time.

Proactive cybersecurity technique to detect hidden threats that have evaded existing security solutions.

Information about potential or current threats to an organization's security, used to inform better decision-making.

Comprehensive view of potential security threats facing an organization or industry, crucial for effective risk management.

Process of identifying, understanding, and categorizing potential security threats.

Measure of responsiveness that indicates the time between a user making an HTTP request and the first byte of the page being received by the browser.

Metric measuring how long it takes to restore a service after an incident, important for assessing system reliability.

Duration between the initiation of a process and the realization of its benefits, crucial for measuring efficiency and ROI.

Feature flag technique that enables or disables features based on geographical location.

Feature flag technique that enables or disables features based on user permissions.

Manual, repetitive, automatable work in running production services that lacks long-term value and scales linearly with service growth.

Proliferation of tools within an organization, often leading to inefficiency and integration challenges.

Set of programming tools used to perform a complex software development task or to create a software product.

Process of monitoring, controlling, and optimizing network traffic to ensure efficient data flow and prevent congestion.

Distributed continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub.

Source control branching model where developers collaborate on code in a single branch.