DevOps Glossary

Adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines, and specifications relevant to a business.

Degree to which an organization meets regulatory or industry-specific requirements.

Approach to maintaining regulatory compliance by defining compliance requirements as code, enabling automation and consistency.

Team responsible for a specific complex component within a larger system, requiring specialized knowledge.

Open-source tool for automating continuous deployment and server provisioning, simplifying infrastructure management.

Inconsistencies between the desired configuration state and the actual state of a system.

Process of maintaining systems, such as computer servers, in a desired, consistent state across time.

Managing and provisioning computing infrastructure through machine-readable definition files.

Limitation or restriction in a system that affects its performance or capacity, often a focus in optimization efforts.

Service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and cloud.

Lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application.

Centralized repository for storing, managing, and distributing container images, crucial for container-based development and deployment.

Encapsulating an application and its environment to ensure consistent operation across different computing environments.

Lightweight, standalone executable packages of software that include everything needed to run an application.

Model where container engines, orchestration and underlying compute resources are provided on-demand.

Geographically distributed network of proxy servers to provide high availability and performance.

Ongoing process of adhering to regulatory and security standards throughout the development lifecycle.

Approach where teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring it can be reliably released at any time.

Automated implementation of an application's build, deploy, test, and release process.

Practice of automatically deploying every change that passes all stages of the production pipeline.

Constant flow of information about a product or process to facilitate continuous improvement.

Ongoing process of implementing and monitoring policies and controls in software development.

Ongoing effort to enhance products, services, or processes, central to many management philosophies including Lean and Six Sigma.

Development practice where code changes are automatically built, tested, and prepared for a release.

Combined practices of Continuous Integration and either Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment.