DevOps A-Z:

Terms and Concepts

Lansing DevOps Meetup
February 4th, 2020

Brendon Thiede

  • DevOps Platform Engineer
  • Continuous Learner
  • Community Builder

Buzzword Bingo

Important Rules:

  • Term has to be said by Brendon or appear on a slide
  • 5 terms in a row, diagonally, horizontally, or vertically
  • You can only win once
  • Winners get to pick prizes in order of win
  • You have to say "BINGO" to be acknowledged as a winner

The Anti-Jargonist Oath

I, (state your name), do hereby solemnly swear to never use buzzwords, slang, or jargon with the intent to belittle, baffle, or hoodwink my fellow human beings.

A

  • Architecture

A

  • Affinity/Anti-Affinity

A

  • Automation

A

  • All the People

B

  • Business

B

  • Bi-Directional Communication

B

  • Bandwidth

B

  • Batch Size

B

  • Batch Jobs

C

  • Configuration Management

C

  • Containers

C

  • Chaos Engineering

C

  • Collaboration

D

  • Data Centers

D

  • Data Management

D

  • Domain Driven Design

D

  • Declarative Paradigms

E

  • Ephemeral

E

  • Event Driven

E

  • Equality

E

  • Enabling

F

  • Functional Paradigms

F

  • Familiarity

F

  • FoMo

G

  • Goal Oriented

G

  • GitOps

G

  • Governance

H

  • Hybrid Cloud

H

  • Hyperconvergence

H

  • Hypervisor

I

  • Isolation

I

  • Idempotent

I

  • Infrastructure as a Service

I

  • Insights

J

  • Justin Time

J

Justin Timberlake: Oh, stop it

J

  • Just-in-time Provisioning

K

  • Knowledge as Code

K

  • Keep it Simple

L

  • Long Running

L

  • Long Lived

L

  • Latency

M

  • Microservices

M

  • Monolith

M

  • Multi-Region

M

  • Mutation

N

  • Network Policies

N

  • NoSQL

N

  • Native Executable

O

  • Open Source

O

  • Ownership

O

  • Org Structures

P

  • Polyglot

P

  • People

P

  • Platform as a Service

Q

  • Quantum

Q

  • Query Languages

Q

  • Quantity vs Quality

R

  • Rolling Updates

R

  • Real Time

R

  • Reactive

S

  • Software as a Service

S

  • Single Point of Failure

S

  • Service Catalog

S

  • Silo vs SME

S

  • Support

K

  • Hypervisor

T

  • Throttling

T

  • Tracing

T

  • TCP/IP

T

  • Tech Debt

U

  • User Focused

U

  • User Space

U

  • Uniform Infrastructure

V

  • Virtualization

V

  • Vertical Scaling

V

  • Verbose Logging

V

  • Visibility

W

  • Whole System

W

  • Wire Traffic

W

  • WIP

X

  • eXact Clone of Prod

X

  • User eXperience

Y

  • Yesterday's Data

Y

  • YAML

Y

DevOps and Pixie Dust

Y

  • YAGNI

Y

  • YBIYOI

Z

  • Zero Downtime

Z

  • Zap Pattern

Z

  • Zero Sum

Special Bonus Words!

  • IoT
  • Intelligent edge
  • Blockchain
  • Big data
  • Service Mesh

Further Reading

  • The Phoenix Project
  • The Unicorn Project
  • https://12factor.net/
  • https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
  • https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuresecurity/2016/04/18/what-does-shared-responsibility-in-the-cloud-mean/