Load Balancer

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.

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.

Container Orchestration

The automated management of containerised application deployment, scaling, networking, and availability across clusters of machines, with Kubernetes as the dominant platform.

An open-source infrastructure as code tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.

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

An authentication scheme allowing users to log in once and gain access to multiple related systems.

A cloud computing option that uses spare capacity at significantly reduced prices with the possibility of interruption.

The process of moving workloads back from public cloud environments to on-premises or private cloud infrastructure.

The policies, procedures, and tools for managing cloud resource usage, security, compliance, and costs.

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

Application Programming Interface — a set of protocols and tools for building and integrating software applications.