Wiki

These pages explain the terms from the “The problem” section on the homepage. Each term has its own page: what it means, and what part of it belongs to the project on MainPath.

• DNS DNS turns a name like example.com into the address of the server.
• Networking Networking connects machines, services, and users.
• Logging Logging stores requests, errors, and what the app did, so you can read it later.
• Kubernetes Kubernetes starts and spreads containers across several machines.
• Dev environments The place where you write code and run it locally.
• Monitoring Monitoring shows whether servers and services are up, and how busy they are.
• Storage Storage is space for files, uploads, and backups, separate from the database.
• Auth Auth decides who can sign in and what that person is allowed to do.
• Git hosting Git hosting is where the repositories live. The pipeline starts from there.
• Firewall A firewall decides which connections to the server are allowed.
• Docker Docker packs the app into an image that runs the same locally and on the server.
• Cron jobs Cron jobs are tasks that run on a schedule, for example every night.
• Backups Backups are copies of the database and files you can restore.
• SSL certificates An SSL certificate makes the site available over HTTPS.
• Infrastructure as code Infrastructure as code describes servers, networks, and access as files in the repository.
• CI/CD pipelines A CI/CD pipeline tests, builds, and ships the app after every push.
• Load balancer A load balancer spreads incoming requests across several instances.
• Secret management Secret management keeps passwords, API keys, and tokens out of the repository.