Kubernetes Glossary

Important definitions and terminologies used in Kubernetes

A

  • Admission Controller in Kubernetes
  • Admission Webhook in Kubernetes
  • Affinity in Kubernetes
  • AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) in Kubernetes
  • Also known as:kubectl in Kubernetes
  • Annotation in Kubernetes
  • Annotations in Kubernetes
  • API Group in Kubernetes
  • API Server in Kubernetes
  • Applications in Kubernetes

C

  • Calico in Kubernetes
  • Certificates in Kubernetes
  • cgroup (control group) in Kubernetes
  • Cinder in Kubernetes
  • Cloud Controller Manager in Kubernetes
  • Cluster Autoscaler in Kubernetes
  • Cluster in Kubernetes
  • CNI in Kubernetes
  • ConfigMap in Kubernetes
  • Configurations in Kubernetes
  • Container Environment Variables in Kubernetes
  • Container in Kubernetes
  • Container Runtime in Kubernetes
  • Container runtime interface (CRI) in Kubernetes
  • Containerd in Kubernetes
  • Control Plane in Kubernetes
  • Controller in Kubernetes
  • CSI Driver in Kubernetes
  • CSI in Kubernetes
  • Custom Metrics API in Kubernetes
  • Custom Resource Definition (CRD) in Kubernetes
  • CustomResourceDefinition in Kubernetes

D

  • DaemonSet in Kubernetes
  • Dashboard in Kubernetes
  • Data Plane in Kubernetes
  • Debugging in Kubernetes
  • Deployment in Kubernetes
  • Desired State in Kubernetes
  • Device Plugin in Kubernetes
  • Disruption in Kubernetes
  • DNS in Kubernetes
  • Docker in Kubernetes
  • Dockershim in Kubernetes

E

  • EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) in Kubernetes
  • Endpoint in Kubernetes
  • Envoy in Kubernetes
  • Ephemeral Container in Kubernetes
  • ETCD in Kubernetes
  • Event in Kubernetes
  • Extensions in Kubernetes
  • ExternalDNS in Kubernetes

F

  • Feature gate in Kubernetes
  • Finalizer in Kubernetes
  • Flannel in Kubernetes

G

  • Garbage Collection in Kubernetes
  • GCP (Google Cloud Platform) in Kubernetes
  • GitOps in Kubernetes
  • Grafana in Kubernetes

H

  • Helm Chart in Kubernetes
  • Helm in Kubernetes
  • Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) in Kubernetes
  • Horizontal Pod Autoscaling in Kubernetes
  • HTTP Probe in Kubernetes

I

  • Image in Kubernetes
  • Ingress Controller in Kubernetes
  • Ingress in Kubernetes
  • Init Container in Kubernetes
  • Istio in Kubernetes

J

  • Job in Kubernetes
  • Jobs API in Kubernetes

K

  • Kata Containers in Kubernetes
  • KEDA in Kubernetes
  • kube-controller-manager in Kubernetes
  • kube-ovn in Kubernetes
  • Kube-proxy in Kubernetes
  • Kubeadm in Kubernetes
  • Kubectl in Kubernetes
  • Kubeflow in Kubernetes
  • Kubelet in Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes API in Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes Federation in Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes Metrics APIs in Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes Operators in Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes Resource Management in Kubernetes
  • Kubernetify in Kubernetes
  • Kubernikus in Kubernetes
  • Kubevirt in Kubernetes
  • Kustomize in Kubernetes

L

  • Label in Kubernetes
  • Labels in Kubernetes
  • LimitRange in Kubernetes
  • Liveness Probe in Kubernetes
  • Load Balancer in Kubernetes
  • Logging in Kubernetes
  • Longhorn in Kubernetes

M

  • Manifest in Kubernetes
  • Master in Kubernetes
  • Metrics Pipeline in Kubernetes
  • Metrics Server in Kubernetes
  • Minikube in Kubernetes
  • Mirror Pod in Kubernetes

N

  • Name in Kubernetes
  • Namespace in Kubernetes
  • Namespaces in Kubernetes
  • Network Load Balancer in Kubernetes
  • Network Policy in Kubernetes
  • Node Affinity in Kubernetes
  • Node Failure in Kubernetes
  • Node in Kubernetes
  • Node Selector in Kubernetes

O

  • Object in Kubernetes
  • OpenEBS. in Kubernetes
  • Operator Framework in Kubernetes
  • Operator in Kubernetes
  • Overcommit in Kubernetes

P

  • Persistent Volume (PV) in Kubernetes
  • Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) in Kubernetes
  • Pod in Kubernetes
  • Pod Lifecycle in Kubernetes
  • Pod Security Policy (PSP) in Kubernetes
  • Pod Security Policy in Kubernetes
  • Port Forwarding in Kubernetes
  • Priority Class in Kubernetes
  • Prometheus in Kubernetes

Q

  • QoS Class in Kubernetes

R

  • Rancher in Kubernetes
  • RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) in Kubernetes
  • RBAC Authorization in Kubernetes
  • ReplicaSet in Kubernetes
  • Resource Quotas in Kubernetes
  • Rolling Update in Kubernetes
  • Rolling Update Strategy in Kubernetes

S

  • Secret in Kubernetes
  • Secret Management in Kubernetes
  • Selector in Kubernetes
  • Service in Kubernetes
  • Service Mesh in Kubernetes
  • ServiceAccount in Kubernetes
  • Shuffle-sharding in Kubernetes
  • Sidecar in Kubernetes
  • Stateful Application in Kubernetes
  • StatefulSet in Kubernetes
  • Static Pod in Kubernetes
  • Storage Class in Kubernetes
  • StorageOS in Kubernetes
  • Subresource in Kubernetes
  • System Containers in Kubernetes

T

  • Taint in Kubernetes
  • Telepresence in Kubernetes
  • Terraform in Kubernetes
  • Terraform Provider in Kubernetes
  • Tiller in Kubernetes
  • TLS Certificates in Kubernetes
  • Token in Kubernetes
  • Toleration in Kubernetes
  • Topology in Kubernetes
  • Traefik in Kubernetes

U

  • UID in Kubernetes

V

  • Virtual Kubelet in Kubernetes
  • Volume in Kubernetes
  • Volume Snapshot in Kubernetes
  • Volume Types in Kubernetes

W

  • Worker Nodes. in Kubernetes
  • Workload in Kubernetes

Y

  • YAML in Kubernetes
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