Terminology

454 terms, tools, patterns and metrics an architect is expected to use precisely. Each one gets a short explanation of what it is, and — where it matters — what it is commonly confused with. Search filters as you type; the column headers sort.

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Kind Any concept166 practice107 pattern93 case-study26 tool26 protocol22 metric14

3 terms shown.

Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
Kubernetes Operator	pattern	Kubernetes	A custom controller that encodes operational knowledge for a specific application, reconciling a custom resource towards a desired state the same way built-in controllers do.
Pod	concept	Kubernetes	The smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes — one or more containers that share a network namespace, storage volumes and a lifecycle, scheduled together on one node.
Resource Requests and Limits	concept	Kubernetes	The declared minimum a container is guaranteed (request) and the maximum it may consume (limit) — the two numbers that determine scheduling, packing and throttling.