Infrastructure

Chaos engineering

A testing system that deliberately introduces failures in parts of an application to evaluate how it responds.

Container
orchestration

The tools for managing the various containers that comprise distributed cloud-based applications.

Containers

A standalone, executable package of software which can be deployed into standardized environments easily.

Dark data center

A data center designed to operate without human intervention, in all but exceptional circumstances.

DevOps

A culture where people, from a range of disciplines, work together to design, develop, deploy and operate a system.

Docker

An open source tool to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers.

Edge computing

A form of distributed computing whereby data storage and processing shifts closer to a device rather than relying on a central location.

Fog computing

Fog computing is a decentralized computing infrastructure where data, computation, storage and applications are somewhere between the data source and the cloud.

Kubernetes

The most popular container orchestrator, which is used to manage the various containers that comprise distributed cloud-based applications.