Cilium
An eBPF-based Kubernetes networking and security plugin providing connectivity, policy enforcement, and observability.
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Container Registry
A repository used to store and distribute container images.
View →Docker Compose
A tool that describes multiple containers, networks, and volumes in a declarative file.
View →Dockerfile
A file containing instructions used to build a container image.
View →eBPF
A Linux kernel technology that runs verified programs to observe or control selected system events.
View →Grafana
A visualization platform used to build dashboards from many data sources.
View →Helm
A package manager for Kubernetes based on configurable charts.
View →Kubernetes
A container orchestration platform that automates deployment, scaling, and recovery.
View →Kubernetes Deployment
A Kubernetes resource that maintains a desired number of Pods and manages rolling updates.
View →Kubernetes Ingress
A resource describing inbound HTTP/HTTPS routing to Kubernetes Services.
View →Kubernetes Pod
The smallest deployable Kubernetes unit containing one or more containers that share networking and local storage.
View →Kubernetes Service
A stable network abstraction exposing a set of Pods through consistent addressing and ports.
View →OpenTelemetry
A standard and toolset for collecting application traces, metrics, and logs.
View →Prometheus
A metrics-focused monitoring system with periodic scraping and the PromQL query language.
View →Terraform
A declarative Infrastructure as Code tool that describes resources in configuration files and converges infrastructure toward that state.
View →Terraform Apply
The Terraform operation that executes plan actions to actually change infrastructure.
View →Terraform Backend
The mechanism that defines where Terraform stores state and, depending on backend, how it handles locking or remote execution.
View →Terraform Drift
The difference between Terraform's declared/stored infrastructure state and a resource changed outside the Terraform workflow.
View →Terraform Module
A reusable Terraform configuration package grouping resources, variables, outputs, and architecture logic.
View →Terraform Plan
The Terraform operation that calculates and presents required changes without immediately applying them.
View →Terraform Provider
A Terraform plugin that implements resources and data sources for a specific API or platform.
View →Terraform State
The state file or object in which Terraform maps configuration resources to real objects and keeps required attributes.
View →Terraform Workspace
A separate Terraform state namespace using the same configuration to maintain multiple logical instances of the same code.
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