The Ultimate DevOps Glossary

Your complete guide to the key terms, concepts, and acronyms in the world of DevOps, cloud, and automation.

The world of DevOps is filled with specialized terms and acronyms. This glossary is designed to be a quick reference for engineers, managers, and anyone looking to better understand the concepts that drive modern software development and operations.

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Common Questions About DevOps Terminology

Continuous Delivery is the practice of automatically releasing every validated build to a production-like environment. The final push to live production is a manual, business decision. Continuous Deployment takes this one step further by automatically deploying every validated build directly to live production, with no human intervention.

No, but they are closely related. Agile is a project management methodology focused on iterative development and collaboration within the development team. DevOps is a broader cultural philosophy that extends Agile principles to include IT operations, aiming to break down silos between development and operations teams to improve the entire software delivery lifecycle.

IaC is crucial because it makes infrastructure provisioning repeatable, consistent, and version-controlled. By defining infrastructure in code (e.g., with Terraform), you can automate the creation of environments, eliminate manual configuration errors ("configuration drift"), and apply the same testing and review processes to your infrastructure as you do for your application code.