Glossary

kubectl is a command line tool (cli) for running commands against Kubernetes clusters

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

Kops ships with geodesic and is the easiest way to get a production grade Kubernetes cluster up and running on AWS.

AWS serverless (functions as a service) offering.

The “Application Layer” (e.g. HTTP)

Monorepo refers to a strategy of storing all code for possibly unrelated applications within the same source code repository.

Multifactor authentication is a security “Best Practice” of requiring more than one method to verify access credentials during authentication

The on-call engineer is the person currently assigned to take-point if any serious issues arise. They are typically the ones on “pager duty” who get a phone call in the middle of the night if/when things break.

OSI is a conceptual model consisting of 7 abstraction layers that represent the various functions of a computing system without regard to its underlying internal structure and technology.

An incident management platform that provides reliable incident notifications via email, push, SMS, and phone, as well as automatic escalations, on-call scheduling, and other functionality to help teams detect and fix infrastructure problems quickly.