In the realm of Cloud DevOps, various acronyms are commonly used to describe tools, practices, and concepts that streamline development and operations processes. Here’s a brief overview of some key acronyms you might encounter
CI/CD: Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
IaC: Infrastructure as Code
DevOps: Development and Operations
SRE: Site Reliability Engineering
AWS: Amazon Web Services
GCP: Google Cloud Platform
Azure: Microsoft Azure
K8s: Kubernetes
VM: Virtual Machine
VPC: Virtual Private Cloud
SaaS: Software as a Service
PaaS: Platform as a Service
IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
FaaS: Function as a Service
ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
APM: Application Performance Monitoring
CDN: Content Delivery Network
IAM: Identity and Access Management
MFA: Multi-Factor Authentication
WAF: Web Application Firewall
RBAC: Role-Based Access Control
TF: Terraform
Ansible: Automation Tool
GIT: Git (version control system)
JIRA: JIRA (issue and project tracking tool)
Docker: Containerization platform
Nginx: Nginx (web server and reverse proxy)
VCS: Version Control System
API: Application Programming Interface
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
VPN: Virtual Private Network
SSH: Secure Shell
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
YAML: YAML Ain’t Markup Language (data serialization format)
Puppet: Configuration Management Tool
Chef: Configuration Management Tool
Jenkins: Automation Server
Helm: Kubernetes Package Manager
KPI: Key Performance Indicator
DR: Disaster Recovery
RTO: Recovery Time Objective
RPO: Recovery Point Objective
HCL: HashiCorp Configuration Language
SLO: Service Level Objective
SLI: Service Level Indicator
SLA: Service Level Agreement