Terminology

  • DevOps - A set of practices that combine IT and Software Engineering practices that assist in reducing the time required to reliably engineer and deploy code to production environments.
  • Version Control - The process of tracking and managing the incremental changes of source code and configuration files, usually handled with various tools and utilities.
  • Continuous Integration (CI) - The practice of merging the distributed copies of a development team's codebase into a centralized repository, usually several times a day.
  • Continuous Delivery (CD) - The cycle of creating, building, testing and manually releasing software at a high frequency and with consistency.
  • Continuous Deployment (also CD) - Almost identical to the Continuous Delivery process but with automated releases instead of manual releases.
  • Infrastructure - A collection of logically architected systems and network resources that act as the communication backbone between users and services.
  • Infrastructure as Code - The process of designing and engineering infrastructure using code within configuration files and running deployments using software tools.
  • Configuration as Code - Defining the configuration of Computer and Network infrastructure using code and configuration files with a focus on speed and consistent reproducibility.
  • Namespace - A label assigned to a set of resources and processes. Designed so that processes running in a specific namespace can only access other processes, files and resources that reside within that namespace. One process can be assigned several namespaces.
  • Container - An entire operating system running within a virtual namespace on a host system while sharing that host's resources with varying degrees of restrictions. Containers are typically used to run a single target program with minimal overhead required from the host.
  • Pod - A collection of inter-dependent containers, each running a single target program, that together run as a single application.
  • Container Image - A compressed, frozen template of a pre-configured operating system. Used as the foundation to create containers.
  • Container Orchestration - The process of creating, managing, and monitoring containers through software automation. Container Orchestration was founded by Google's Borg project (now Kubernetes).
  • Identity Access Management - A system that provides sets of policies, profiles and roles that ensures entities with resource access are assigned the appropriate level of permissions within an environment.

Operating Systems

  • Alpine Linux
  • Fedora CoreOS
  • Red Hat CoreOS
  • Flatcar Linux
  • NixOS

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • Go
  • HCL
  • Ruby
  • YAML
  • Bash
  • Powershell

Source Code Management

  • Subversion
  • Git
  • Gitflow
  • Gitea

DevOps Platforms

  • Github
  • Gitlab
  • Bitbucket
  • Gitkraken
  • Azure DevOps
  • JFrog

CI/CD

  • Jenkins
  • Buildbot
  • Drone
  • Travis
  • Circle
  • Teamcity

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • Vagrant

Configuration as Code

  • Ansible
  • Saltstack
  • Puppet
  • Chef
  • Packer

Container Runtimes

  • OCI Specifications
  • RunC
  • ContainerD
  • Docker
  • Podman/Buildah
  • LXC/LXD
  • Cri-O
  • Crun
  • Kata Containers
  • GVisor
  • systemd-nspawn

Container Orchestration

  • Kubernetes (K8s)
  • OKD
  • Openshift
  • K3s
  • Minikube
  • Kind
  • MicroK8s
  • Managed Kubernetes

Public Cloud Platforms

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • IBM Cloud
  • DigitalOcean

Testing Frameworks

  • Terratest

Security

  • Lynis
  • Apparmor
  • SELinux
  • Vault