Terminology Flashcards
immutable infrastructure
comprised of immutable components that are replaced for every deployment, rather than being updated in-place. Those components are started from a common image that is built once per deployment and can be tested and validated
agnostic
denoting or relating to hardware or software that is compatible with many types of platform or operating system.
Platform-agnostic
repositories
A software repository, colloquially known as a “repo” for short, is a storage location from which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer.
suffice
be enough or adequate.
meet the needs of.
heterogeneous
diverse in character or content.
incommensurable through being of different kinds, degrees, or dimensions.
bluff
- try to deceive someone as to one’s abilities or intentions.
- survive a difficult situation by maintaining a pretence.
PEM and PPK
- Privacy Enhanced Mail and is a widely used X.509 encoding format used for security certificates
- PPK files are PuTTY Private Key Files developed by Putty and they serve as storage for the private keys the program generated
RPM
RPM Package Manager (also known simply as RPM), originally called the Red-hatPackage Manager, is a program for installing, uninstalling, and managing software packages in Linux. RPM was developed on the basis of the Linux Standard Base (LSB).