Glossary
Glossary of definitions
Amazon’s IAM is a service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources.
The imperative approach focuses on how precisely the infrastructure should be defined.
Infrastructure is everything that supports running your software
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing/provisioning Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) using machine-readable definition files (usually DSLs), rather than rely on humans doing physical/manual hardware configuration.
An Ingress Controller is a native resource type in Kubernetes that functions like a Layer 7 Load Balancer (e.g. HTTP Load Balancer) to route requests to various backend services based on incoming hostname (e.g. Host header) and request path (e.g. /foo).
The init-terraform script is a helper for configuring and then initializing terraform remote state in combination with the terraform-aws-tfstate-backend module.
jq is a Go-based command line tool for JSON that supports standard CRUD operations.
Kanban is a popular framework used to implement agile software development that leverages cards and boards to visually communicate the status of a project.
A managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data, and uses FIPS 140-2 validated hardware security modules to protect the security of your keys. A
A Key Performance Indicator is a metric (e.g. number of requests per second) that indicates if some key business objective is being satisfied.