DevOps Glossary

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Ansible is an open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.

Apache Maven is a software project management tool based on POM, managing builds and documentation.

Atlassian is an Australian-American software company developing products for software developers and project managers.

AWS is Amazon Web Services, a leading cloud platform offering over 200 services globally for diverse applications.

Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering over 200 services for building, deploying, and managing applications globally.

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Chef is an open-source configuration management tool used for automating infrastructure deployment and management.

Consul is a service networking solution enabling secure connectivity between services across various environments and runtimes.

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Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for IT and DevOps teams, offering performance metrics and event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services.

DevOps is a software development methodology that combines development and operations to deliver applications faster with automation and collaboration.

Docker is a platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers, enabling efficient software deployment and management.

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Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine for handling large volumes of data efficiently.

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GCP (Google Cloud Platform) is a suite of cloud computing services offering various modular solutions for businesses.

Git is a distributed version control system, while GitHub is a cloud-based platform for collaboration and code sharing.

GitLab is a cloud-based Git and DevOps platform for monitoring, testing, and deploying code efficiently.

Gradle is a fast, scalable, and adaptable open-source build automation tool with a declarative build language.

Grafana is an open-source platform for data visualization, monitoring, and analysis, offering versatile and customizable dashboards.

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Jenkins is an open-source automation server for building, testing, and deploying software projects continuously.

Jira is a project management software tool for tracking, organizing, and prioritizing tasks efficiently across various industries.

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Kubernetes is an open-source platform for managing containerized applications and services efficiently.

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Linux is a free, open-source, and secure operating system used across devices.

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Nagios is an open-source monitoring tool for tracking and alerting on IT infrastructure performance and issues.

New Relic is a cloud-based observability platform providing real-time insights into digital system performance.

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Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database, and modern alerting approach.

Pulumi is a cloud development platform for infrastructure as code, offering multi-cloud support and familiar languages.

Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool for automating IT infrastructure.

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Rundeck is runbook automation for self-service access to processes and tools, available in open source, enterprise, and cloud versions.

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Selenium is an open-source suite for automating web browsers, enabling cross-browser testing of web applications.

Sentry is an application monitoring platform for error tracking and performance monitoring, available in self-hosted and cloud-based versions.

Snyk is a developer security platform that helps find and fix vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code.

SonarQube is an open-source platform for continuous code quality inspection and automatic reviews.

Splunk is a software technology for real-time data tracking, scanning, analysis, and visualization.

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Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure efficiently.

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Vagrant is an open-source tool for building and managing virtual development environments efficiently.

Vault is an identity-based secret and encryption management system for secure and controlled access to sensitive data.

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Zabbix is an open-source network monitoring tool for tracking IT infrastructure performance and availability.

Zapier is a web-based automation tool connecting apps for streamlined tasks without coding skills.