| Active Directory |
Microsoft's proprietary directory service |
MKC |
SysEleven Documentation |
| Addon / add-on |
a piece of software that enhances or customizes an existing application or software |
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| API |
Application Programming Interface |
MKC |
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| Auditing |
a security-relevant, chronological set of records documenting the sequence of actions in a cluster |
MKC |
Kubernetes Documentation |
| Autoscaler |
a component that adjusts the number or size of nodes or pods in line with demand in order to optimize the resource usage |
MKC |
SysEleven Documentation |
| AWS |
Amazon Web Services |
MKC |
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| Azure |
Microsoft's public cloud service |
MKC |
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| Blue / Green Deployments |
an application release model that gradually transfers user traffic from a previous version of an app or microservice to a nearly identical new release—both of which are running in production |
MKC |
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| Canary deployments |
an application release model that releases an application or service incrementally to a subset of users |
MKC |
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| CBK |
a SysEleven cloud region in Berlin, Germany |
MKC |
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| CI/CD |
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment |
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| CI/CD pipeline |
a series of steps that must be performed in order to deliver a new version of software |
MKC |
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| CIDR |
Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
MKC |
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| CIDR (notation) |
CIDR notation is a compact representation of an IP address and its associated network mask |
MKC |
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| Cloud Controller Manager |
The goal of the cloud controller manager project is to decouple development of cloud features from the core Kubernetes project |
MKC |
Kubernetes Documentation |
| Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) |
an open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus |
MKC |
Website: CNCF |
| Cluster |
a Kubernetes cluster in MKC |
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| Container |
a process that runs isolated from other processes on a host operating system |
MKC |
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| Control Plane |
the essential components to a Kubernetes cluster, namely apiserver, controller-manager, scheduler |
MKC |
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| CRUD |
abbreviation for CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE |
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| CSI |
Container Storage Interface. A plugin for container orchestration which that allows storage suppliers to expose their products to containerized applications and persistent storage. |
MKC |
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| DBL |
a SysEleven cloud region in Berlin, Germany |
MKC |
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| DNS |
Domain Name System |
MKC |
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| Docker |
a set of PaaS products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers |
MKC |
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| ECR |
Elastic Container Registry |
MKC |
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| Egress |
outgoing traffic from a pod or a server / VM |
MKC |
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| Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) |
a monitoring solution based on Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana |
MKC |
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| FES |
a SysEleven cloud region in Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
MKC |
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| Flatcar |
Flatcar Linux distribution |
MKC |
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| Floating IPs |
a public, static IP address for instances created only in a private subnet |
MKC |
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| Grafana |
a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application |
MKC |
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| Harbor |
an open source registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensures images are scanned and free from vulnerabilities, and signs images as trusted |
MKC |
Website: Harbor |
| Helm chart |
a distribution format for a related set of Kubernetes resources |
MKC |
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| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
MKC |
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| IAM |
Identity Access Management |
MKC |
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| (Container) Image |
Container images are executable software bundles that can run standalone and that make very well defined assumptions about their runtime environment. |
MKC |
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| Ingress |
an API object that manages external access to the services in a cluster, typically HTTP |
MKC |
Kubernetes Documentation |
| JSON |
JavaScript Object Notation |
MKC |
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| Kubelet |
The kubelet is the primary "node agent" that runs on each node |
MKC |
Kubernetes Documentation |
| Kubernetes |
Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications |
MKC |
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| L7 LB |
Layer 7 (HTTP) Load Balancing |
MKC |
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| Label |
labels are key/value pairs that are attached to objects, such as pods |
MKC |
Kubernetes Documentation |
| LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
MKC |
SysEleven Documentation |
| Managed Service |
managed services is the practice ofoutsourcing the responsibility for maintaining, and anticipating need for, a range of processes and functions, ostensibly for the purpose of improved operations and reduced budgetary expenditures through the reduction of directly-employed staff |
MKC |
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| MKA |
MetaKube Accelerator |
MKA |
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| MKC |
MetaKube Core |
MKC |
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| MKO |
MetaKube Operator |
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| Node (anti-)affinity |
a property on Pods used for scheduling that attracts to or repels them from a set of nodes |
MKC |
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| Octavia |
a CotS product that implements OpenStack Load Balancer API. MetaKube Core creates LBs through Kubernetes, they get "Octavia Load Balancers". |
MKC |
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| PaaS |
Platform as a Service |
MKC |
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| PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) |
makes a persistent volume (PV) available for a Pod |
MKC |
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| Pod Security Policy |
a cluster-level resource that controls security sensitive aspects of the pod specification |
MKC |
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| Prometheus |
Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting |
MKC |
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| PV / persistent volumes |
a PersistentVolume (PV) is a "logical representation" od a piece of storage that has been provisioned by an administrator or dynamically provisioned using Storage Classes |
MKC |
Kubernetes Documentation |
| RabbitMQ |
an open-source message-broker software |
MKC |
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| Redis |
an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker |
MKC |
Website: REDIS |
| Region / cloud region |
a cloud region is the actual geographic location where your cloud resources are located |
MKC |
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| ReplicaSet |
a ReplicaSet's purpose is to maintain a stable set of replica Pods running at any given time |
MKC |
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| Resource Quotas |
the quotas of resources available to you in your region |
MKC |
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| REST API / RESTful API |
Representational State Transfer API |
MKC |
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| RWX |
Read Write Many volumes. Opposite to RWO (Read Write Once) |
MKC |
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| SAML |
Security Assertion Markup Language |
MKC |
SysEleven Documentation |
| SNAT |
Source Network Address Translation |
MKC |
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| SSH |
Secure Shell |
MKC |
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| Storage Classes |
a way for administrators to describe the "classes" of storage they offer |
MKC |
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| Swagger |
a suite of tools for API developers |
MKC |
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| Taints |
a property on Pods used for scheduling. Forbids scheduling or execution on Nodes without matching tolerations |
MKC |
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| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
MKC |
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| Tolerations |
a property on Pods used for scheduling. Tolerations allow a Pod to be scheduled on a Node with matching taints |
MKC |
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| Ubuntu |
a linux distribution based on Debian |
MKC |
Website: UBUNTU |
| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
MKC |
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| UI |
User Interface |
MKC |
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| Velero |
an open source tool to safely backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes |
MKC |
Website: Velero |
| VM |
Virtual Machine |
MKC |
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| Webhook |
a method of augmenting or altering the behavior of a web page or web application with custom callbacks. In the context of Kubernetes, a webhook refers to an "Admission webhook": an endpoint that fulfills "Admission Requests" for an action a user wants to carry out through the Kubernetes API |
MKC |
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