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