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The Infralovers Glossary: IT terms explained simply.
136 terms
A
- A2A — Agent-to-Agent Protocol AI & Machine Learning New intermediate
- Access Control List (ACL) Security & Compliance New intermediate
- Acceptance Testing Testing intermediate
- Aider AI & Machine Learning intermediate
- Ansible Cloud & Infrastructure beginner
- Ansible AWX Cloud & Infrastructure intermediate
- Ansible Molecule Cloud & Infrastructure intermediate
- Ansible Vault Cloud & Infrastructure beginner
- Apache Kafka Data & Storage intermediate
- API (Application Programming Interface) Development Tools beginner
- APM (Application Performance Monitoring) Observability & Monitoring intermediate
- ArgoCD Cloud & Infrastructure intermediate
B
- Backstage Development Tools intermediate
- Bare Metal Cloud & Infrastructure beginner
- Bash Development Tools beginner
- BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) Testing intermediate
- Behave Testing intermediate
- Black Box Testing Testing beginner
- Blue/Green Deployment CI/CD & GitOps intermediate
- Boundary Cloud & Infrastructure intermediate
C
- Claude Code AI & Machine Learning New intermediate
- cnquery Security & Compliance New intermediate
- cnspec Security & Compliance New intermediate
- Cursor AI & Machine Learning New intermediate
- CLOUD Act Security & Compliance New intermediate
- Control Plane Cloud & Infrastructure New intermediate
- Canary Release CI/CD & GitOps intermediate
- Capybara Testing intermediate
- Ceph Data & Storage intermediate
- CheckMK Observability & Monitoring intermediate
- Chef / CINC Cloud & Infrastructure intermediate
- CI/CD CI/CD & GitOps beginner
- CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) CI/CD & GitOps beginner
- CINC Auditor Testing advanced
- Claude AI & Machine Learning beginner
- CLI (Command Line Interface) Development Tools beginner
- Cloud-Native Cloud & Infrastructure beginner
- CloudWatch Observability & Monitoring intermediate
- Configuration Management Cloud & Infrastructure beginner
- Consul Cloud & Infrastructure intermediate
- Continue (AI Coding Tool) AI & Machine Learning intermediate
- Continuous Delivery CI/CD & GitOps beginner
- Continuous Deployment CI/CD & GitOps beginner
- Continuous Integration CI/CD & GitOps beginner
- CRD (Custom Resource Definition) Development Tools intermediate
- Crossplane Cloud & Infrastructure advanced
- Cucumber Testing intermediate
- CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) Security & Compliance beginner
D
- Device Posture Security & Compliance New intermediate
- Datadog Observability & Monitoring intermediate
- DDD (Domain-Driven Design) Development Tools advanced
- DevEx (Developer Experience) Development Tools intermediate
- DHCP Networking beginner
- Distributed Tracing Observability & Monitoring advanced
- DNS Networking beginner
- Docker Cloud & Infrastructure beginner
- Docker Compose Cloud & Infrastructure beginner
- Docker Registry Cloud & Infrastructure beginner
- DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) Security & Compliance intermediate
- DORA Metrics Observability & Monitoring intermediate
- Dynatrace Observability & Monitoring intermediate
E
- EU AI Act Security & Compliance New intermediate
- EU Data Act Security & Compliance New intermediate
- E2E Testing (End-to-End Testing) Testing intermediate
- ElasticSearch Observability & Monitoring intermediate
- ELK Stack Observability & Monitoring intermediate
- etcd Data & Storage intermediate
F
- Firewall Networking beginner
- Floating IP Networking beginner
- FluentD Observability & Monitoring intermediate
G
- GAIA-X Security & Compliance New intermediate
- GitHub Copilot AI & Machine Learning New beginner
- GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Security & Compliance beginner
- GenAI (Generative AI) AI & Machine Learning beginner
- Gherkin Testing intermediate
- GitHub Actions CI/CD & GitOps intermediate
- GitLab CI CI/CD & GitOps intermediate
- GitOps CI/CD & GitOps intermediate
- Grafana Observability & Monitoring intermediate
- Grafana Cloud Observability & Monitoring intermediate
H
- HashiCorp Packer Cloud & Infrastructure New intermediate
- Harness CI/CD & GitOps advanced
- HIPAA Security & Compliance beginner
- Honeycomb Observability & Monitoring advanced
- HTTP / HTTPS Networking beginner
I
- Identity Provider (IdP) Security & Compliance New intermediate
- ICMP Networking beginner
- Integration Testing Testing intermediate
- ISO 27001 Security & Compliance beginner
K
- Keycloak Security & Compliance intermediate
L
- LangChain AI & Machine Learning intermediate
- Large Language Model (LLM) AI & Machine Learning beginner
- Load Balancing Networking intermediate
M
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) AI & Machine Learning New intermediate
- Mesh VPN Networking New intermediate
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Security & Compliance New beginner
- MinIO Data & Storage intermediate
- Mondoo Security & Compliance intermediate
- MongoDB Data & Storage intermediate
- MySQL Data & Storage beginner
N
- n8n Development Tools New beginner
- NAT Traversal Networking New intermediate
- NIS2 Directive Security & Compliance beginner
O
- Ollama AI & Machine Learning New beginner
- OpenBao Security & Compliance New intermediate
- OpenTelemetry (OTel) Observability & Monitoring New intermediate
- OpenTofu Cloud & Infrastructure New intermediate
- On-Premises Cloud & Infrastructure New beginner
P
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networking New beginner
- Platform Engineering Development Tools intermediate
- PostgreSQL Data & Storage beginner
- Pulumi CI/CD & GitOps advanced
R
- Reverse Proxy Networking New intermediate
- Red/Green/Refactor Testing intermediate
- Rolling Upgrade CI/CD & GitOps intermediate
S
- SPIFFE Security & Compliance New advanced
- Schrems II Security & Compliance New intermediate
- SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) Security & Compliance New intermediate
- Self-Hosting Cloud & Infrastructure New beginner
- SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) Security & Compliance New intermediate
- Single Sign-On (SSO) Security & Compliance New beginner
- SSL VPN Networking New intermediate
- STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT) Networking New intermediate
- Semantic Versioning CI/CD & GitOps beginner
T
- Team Topologies Development Tools New intermediate
- TURN (Traversal Using Relays around NAT) Networking New intermediate
- TDD (Test-Driven Development) Testing intermediate
- Terraform Cloud & Infrastructure beginner
- Test Pyramid Testing beginner
U
- Unit Testing Testing beginner
V
- vLLM AI & Machine Learning New advanced
- VPN (Virtual Private Network) Networking New beginner
W
- WireGuard Networking New intermediate
Z
- Zero Trust Security & Compliance New advanced