Glossary
Glossary of definitions
String Interpolation is the process of evaluating a string containing one or more placeholders (e.g. $FOOBAR or {{...}}) and replacing the placeholders with their corresponding values.
A subject-matter expert (SME) is a person who is an authority (domain expert) in a particular area or topic, which is referred to as the domain such as DevOps, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.
Synthetic monitoring is a style of monitoring that attempts to closely emulate the behavior of an end-user.
Technical debt represents all the things that need to be redone later due to poor choices or necessary tradeoffs made today.
Every Terraform configuration has at least one module, known as its root module, which consists of the resources defined in the .tf files in the main working directory. Root modules are the terraform configuration that we actually apply and have terraform state.
This is a common approach to installing various tools via a terminal prompt. You see this commonly done like so: curl example.com/install.sh | bash
This is a SweetOps pattern used to install tooling via a terminal prompt. The primary usage is in Geodesic, which looks like: docker run --rm cloudposse/geodesic:latest-debian | bash -s latest-debian
A topology is the arrangement of various elements (links, nodes, etc.) in a network architecture.
The ability to run complete, disposable apps on Kubernetes for Staging and Development.
A Virtual Private Cloud is a logically isolated network within in AWS.