Glossary

Collection of key terms and definitions of cloud computing infrastructures, IaC, Terraform / OpenTF, Ansible, Kubernetes & AWS.

AWS Internet Gateway
An AWS Internet Gateway is a component that facilitates communication between instances within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and the Internet
AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a serverless computing engine for containers.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 
AWS ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service) is a fully managed container orchestration service for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Docker containers
AWS VPC
AWS Subnets are segmented sections within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
AWS VPC
An AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is a virtual network dedicated to an AWS account. It enables users to launch AWS resources, like EC2 instances, within a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud.
Ansible logo
Generate inventory (host and group information) dynamically rather than statically defining it in a static inventory file
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HCL is a domain-specific language developed by HashiCorp, a company known for its infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad.
Terraform Migration to OpenTofu
IaC is an approach to managing and provisioning computing infrastructure through machine-readable code and automation, rather than manual processes.
AWS S3 Service
AWS S3, is a highly scalable and durable object storage used for data storage, backup, content distribution, data archiving, and as a foundation for building cloud-native applications.
AWS EC2 Service
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides resizable and scalable compute capacity in the cloud. In simple terms, AWS EC2 allows you to launch and manage virtual machines, known as instances, in the AWS cloud.
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