Container Orchestration

Container

A lightweight, portable software package that bundles application code with all its dependencies for consistent execution.

Docker

A platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in isolated containers with consistent environments.

Kubernetes

An open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerised applications.

Load Balancer

A device or software that distributes network traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server is overwhelmed.

Auto-Scaling

Automatically adjusting compute resources based on current demand to maintain performance and optimise costs.

Virtual Machine

A software emulation of a physical computer that runs an operating system and applications independently.

Hypervisor

Software that creates and manages virtual machines, allowing multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.

Object Storage

A data storage architecture managing data as objects rather than file hierarchies or block addresses.

Block Storage

A data storage technology that manages data as individual blocks, each acting as an independent hard drive.

Availability Zone

An isolated location within a cloud region with independent power, cooling, and networking for high availability.

Region

A geographic area containing one or more data centres where cloud services are hosted.

A messaging pattern where publishers send messages to topics and subscribers receive messages from topics of interest.

The delivery of computing services — servers, storage, databases, networking, software — over the internet on demand.

A database service that automatically provisions, scales, and manages infrastructure on demand without manual server management.

A cloud computing model that enables the replication and recovery of infrastructure and data in the cloud.

The process of moving data, applications, and workloads from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments.

Processing data near the source of data generation rather than in a centralised cloud data centre.

Cloud computing model providing virtualised computing resources like servers, storage, and networking over the internet.

A cloud pricing model where users commit to a specific resource configuration for a term in exchange for discounted rates.