8.10: Key Terms

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    Key Terms and Definitions

    Match each term (1–15) with the correct definition (A–O).

    Key Terms and Definitions
    # Term
    1 Cloud-Native Application
    2 Monolithic Application
    3 Docker
    4 Kubernetes
    5 CI/CD
    6 Immutable Infrastructure
    7 Service Mesh
    8 Circuit Breaker
    9 Blue-Green Deployment
    10 Chaos Engineering
    11 Observability
    12 Distributed Tracing
    13 Sidecar Proxy
    14 Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
    15 Container Registry
    Letter Definition
    A A software system designed as a single, unified codebase where all components are tightly coupled.
    B An application built as a collection of small, independently deployable services optimized for cloud environments.
    C A platform for building, shipping, and running applications in lightweight, portable containers.
    D An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
    E Automated practices for building, testing, and deploying code changes frequently and reliably.
    F An approach where servers are never modified after deployment; updates require building new images.
    G An infrastructure layer managing service-to-service communication with load balancing, retries, and encryption.
    H A design pattern that stops calling a failing service to prevent cascading failures across the system.
    I A deployment strategy maintaining two identical environments, switching traffic between them for zero-downtime releases.
    J The practice of deliberately introducing failures into a system to test and improve its resilience.
    K The ability to understand a system's internal state from its external outputs (logs, metrics, traces).
    L A technique for tracking requests as they flow through multiple microservices to diagnose latency and errors.
    M A lightweight network proxy deployed alongside each service instance to handle inter-service communication.
    N A Kubernetes component that automatically scales the number of pod replicas based on observed metrics.
    O A repository for storing, managing, and distributing container images.

    Answer Key: 1-B, 2-A, 3-C, 4-D, 5-E, 6-F, 7-G, 8-H, 9-I, 10-J, 11-K, 12-L, 13-M, 14-N, 15-O

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