# Glossary ## A - [AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)?](/content/finops-glossary/aks-azure-kubernetes-service/index.html) - [Anomalies](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-cost-anomalies/index.html) - [Autoscaling](/content/finops-glossary/autoscaling/index.html) - [AWS Budgets](/content/finops-glossary/aws-budgets/index.html) - [AWS CloudWatch](/content/finops-glossary/aws-cloudwatch/index.html) - [AWS Config](/content/finops-glossary/aws-config/index.html) - [AWS Cost explorer](/content/finops-glossary/aws-cost-explorer/index.html) - [AWS Cost Optimization Hub](/content/finops-glossary/aws-cost-optimization-hub/index.html) - [AWS Elastic IP (EIP)](/content/finops-glossary/aws-elastic-ip-eip/index.html) - [AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)](/content/finops-glossary/iam/index.html) - [AWS Spot Instance Advisor: What It Is and How It Works](/content/finops-glossary/aws-spot-instance-advisor-what-it-is-and-how-it-works/index.html) - [Azure Cosmos DB](/content/finops-glossary/azure-cosmos-db/index.html) - [Azure Cost Management](/content/finops-glossary/azure-cost-management/index.html) - [Azure Monitor](/content/finops-glossary/azure-monitor/index.html) ## B - [Bin Packing](/content/finops-glossary/bin-packing/index.html) - [Blue/Green Deployments in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/blue-green-deployments-in-kubernetes/index.html) ## C - [Calico vs. Cilium in Kubernetes Networking](/content/finops-glossary/calico-vs-cilium-in-kubernetes-networking/index.html) - [Canary Deployments](/content/finops-glossary/canary-deployments/index.html) - [Capsule (Kubernetes)](/content/finops-glossary/capsule-kubernetes/index.html) - [cgroups in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/cgroups-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Chargeback](/content/finops-glossary/chargeback-cloud-computing/index.html) - [CI/CD Pipelines in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/ci-cd-pipelines-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Cloud accountability](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-accountability/index.html) - [Cloud Audit](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-audit/index.html) - [Cloud automation](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-automation/index.html) - [Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-center-of-excellence/index.html) - [Cloud Computing](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-computing/index.html) - [Cloud Cost Allocation](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-cost-allocation/index.html) - [Cloud Cost Intelligence](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-cost-intelligence/index.html) - [Cloud Cost Modeling](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-cost-modeling/index.html) - [Cloud Cost Monitoring](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-cost-monitoring/index.html) - [Cloud cost optimization](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-cost-optimization/index.html) - [Cloud cost policy](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-cost-policy/index.html) - [Cloud cost visibility](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-cost-visibility/index.html) - [Cloud Exit Strategy](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-exit-strategy/index.html) - [Cloud governance](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-governance/index.html) - [Cloud orchestration](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-orchestration/index.html) - [Cloud scheduler](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-scheduler/index.html) - [Cloud Unit Economics](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-unit-economics/index.html) - [Cloud Waste](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-waste/index.html) - [CMP (Cloud management platforms)](/content/finops-glossary/cmp/index.html) - [CNI (Container Network Interface)](/content/finops-glossary/cni-container-network-interface/index.html) - [Commitment Forecasting](/content/finops-glossary/commitment-forecasting/index.html) - [Commitment management](/content/finops-glossary/commitment-management/index.html) - [Commitment-Based Discounts](/content/finops-glossary/commitment-based-discounts/index.html) - [Community Cloud](/content/finops-glossary/community-cloud/index.html) - [ConfigMap in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/configmap-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [containerd](/content/finops-glossary/containerd/index.html) - [Containerized Applications](/content/finops-glossary/containerized-applications/index.html) - [Control Plane in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/control-plane-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Convertible Reserved Instances (CRIs)](/content/finops-glossary/convertible-reserved-instances-cris/index.html) - [Cost alerts](/content/finops-glossary/cost-alerts/index.html) - [Cost tagging](/content/finops-glossary/cost-tagging/index.html) - [CPU Throttling](/content/finops-glossary/cpu-throttling/index.html) - [CRI in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/cri-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [CRI-O: The Lightweight Container Runtime for Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/cri-o-for-kubernetes/index.html) - [Custom Metrics in Kubernetes Autoscaling](/content/finops-glossary/custom-metrics-in-kubernetes-autoscaling/index.html) - [Custom Resources (Kubernetes)](/content/finops-glossary/custom-resources-kubernetes/index.html) ## D - [DaemonSets](/content/finops-glossary/daemonsets/index.html) - [Data Lifecycle Manager AWS](/content/finops-glossary/data-lifecycle-manager-aws/index.html) - [Docker and Containerization: A Complete Guide](/content/finops-glossary/docker-and-containerization-a-complete-guide/index.html) ## E - [EBS (Elastic Block Store)](/content/finops-glossary/ebs/index.html) - [EBS Snapshots](/content/finops-glossary/ebs-snapshots/index.html) - [EC2](/content/finops-glossary/ec2/index.html) - [ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service)](/content/finops-glossary/ecs/index.html) - [EFS (Amazon Elastic File System)](/content/finops-glossary/efs/index.html) - [EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service)](/content/finops-glossary/amazon-kubernetes-eks/index.html) - [Elastic Scaling in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-elastic-scaling/index.html) - [ELB (Elastic Load Balancing)](/content/finops-glossary/elb/index.html) - [EmptyDir Volume in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/emptydir-volume-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [External Secrets Operator](/content/finops-glossary/external-secrets-operator/index.html) ## F - [Fargate for EKS](/content/finops-glossary/fargate-for-eks/index.html) - [Financial policy enforcement in the cloud](/content/finops-glossary/financial-policy-enforcement-in-the-cloud/index.html) - [FinOps](/content/finops-glossary/finops/index.html) ## G - [GitOps](/content/finops-glossary/gitops/index.html) - [GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)](/content/finops-glossary/gke-google-kubernetes-engine/index.html) - [Grafana](/content/finops-glossary/grafana/index.html) - [gVisor in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/gvisor-in-kubernetes/index.html) ## H - [Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/horizontal-pod-autoscaler/index.html) - [Hybrid cloud strategy](/content/finops-glossary/hybrid-cloud-strategy/index.html) ## I - [IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)](/content/finops-glossary/iaas-infrastructure-as-a-service/index.html) - [Idle resources](/content/finops-glossary/idle-resources/index.html) - [In-Place Pod Resize](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-in-place-pod-resize/index.html) - [Infrastructure as Code (IaC)](/content/finops-glossary/infrastructure-as-code-iac/index.html) - [Init Containers in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/init-containers-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Intelligent Tiering](/content/finops-glossary/intelligent-tiering/index.html) - [Istio](/content/finops-glossary/istio/index.html) - [IT Financial Management (ITFM)](/content/finops-glossary/it-financial-management/index.html) ## K - [K8s API Server](/content/finops-glossary/k8s-api-server/index.html) - [K8s Container Runtime](/content/finops-glossary/container-runtime-kubernetes/index.html) - [K8s etcd](/content/finops-glossary/k8s-etcd/index.html) - [K8s Kubelet: The Node Agent](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-kubelet/index.html) - [K8s Liveliness](/content/finops-glossary/liveliness-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [K8s Node Hibernation?](/content/finops-glossary/k8s-node-hibernation/index.html) - [K8s Sidecar Container](/content/finops-glossary/sidecar-container-kubernetes/index.html) - [K8s Vertical Pod Autoscaling (VPA)](/content/finops-glossary/vertical-pod-autoscaling/index.html) - [K9s in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/k9s-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Karpenter](/content/finops-glossary/karpenter/index.html) - [Kata Containers](/content/finops-glossary/kata-containers/index.html) - [KEDA in K8s](/content/finops-glossary/keda-kubernetes/index.html) - [KPIs](/content/finops-glossary/kpis-finops/index.html) - [Kube-Prometheus Stack](/content/finops-glossary/kube-prometheus-stack/index.html) - [Kube-proxy in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-kube-proxy/index.html) - [kubectl exec](/content/finops-glossary/kubectl-exec/index.html) - [kubectl logs](/content/finops-glossary/kubectl-logs/index.html) - [kubectl proxy](/content/finops-glossary/kubectl-proxy/index.html) - [KubeFed – A Guide to Kubernetes Federation](/content/finops-glossary/kubefed-a-guide-to-kubernetes-federation/index.html) - [Kubeflow](/content/finops-glossary/kubeflow/index.html) - [Kuberenets CronJobs](/content/finops-glossary/kuberenets-cronjobs/index.html) - [Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes/index.html) - [Kubernetes Architecture](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-architecture/index.html) - [Kubernetes Autoscaling](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-autoscaling/index.html) - [Kubernetes autoscaling group](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-autoscaling-group/index.html) - [Kubernetes Capacity Planning](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-capacity-planning/index.html) - [Kubernetes Cluster](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-cluster/index.html) - [Kubernetes cluster autoscaler](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-cluster-autoscaler/index.html) - [Kubernetes Cluster Stability](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-cluster-stability/index.html) - [Kubernetes ClusterIP](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-clusterip/index.html) - [Kubernetes command Kubectl](/content/finops-glossary/kubectl-kubernetes/index.html) - [Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI)](/content/finops-glossary/container-storage-interface-kubernetes/index.html) - [Kubernetes Containers](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-containers/index.html) - [Kubernetes Controller Manager](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-controller-manager/index.html) - [Kubernetes cost analysis](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-cost-analysis/index.html) - [Kubernetes CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions)](/content/finops-glossary/crds-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Kubernetes Custom Metrics](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-custom-metrics/index.html) - [Kubernetes Ephemeral Storage](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-ephemeral-storage/index.html) - [Kubernetes Finalizers](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-finalizers/index.html) - [Kubernetes Ingress Controllers](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-ingress-controllers/index.html) - [Kubernetes Jobs](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-jobs/index.html) - [Kubernetes Management](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-management/index.html) - [Kubernetes Monitoring: A Complete Guide](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-monitoring/index.html) - [Kubernetes Multi-Tenant Clusters Multi-Tenant Clusters Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-multi-tenant-clusters-multi-tenant-clusters-kubernetes/index.html) - [Kubernetes Namespaces](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-namespaces/index.html) - [Kubernetes Networking Policies](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-networking-policies/index.html) - [Kubernetes Node Autoprovisioning](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-node-autoprovisioning/index.html) - [Kubernetes Node Pools](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-node-pools/index.html) - [Kubernetes nodes](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-nodes/index.html) - [Kubernetes Parallel Jobs](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-parallel-jobs/index.html) - [Kubernetes Persistent Storage](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-persistent-storage/index.html) - [Kubernetes Persistent Volume Claim](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-persistent-volume-claim/index.html) - [Kubernetes Persistent Volumes](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-persistent-volumes/index.html) - [Kubernetes Pod Autoscaling](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-pod-autoscaling/index.html) - [Kubernetes pods](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-pods/index.html) - [Kubernetes PreStop Hooks](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-prestop-hooks/index.html) - [Kubernetes Proxy Container](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-proxy-container/index.html) - [Kubernetes Resource Limits](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-resource-limits/index.html) - [Kubernetes Scheduler](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-scheduler/index.html) - [Kubernetes Services](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-services/index.html) - [Kubernetes Storage](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-storage/index.html) - [Kubernetes Taints and Tolerations](/content/finops-glossary/taints-and-tolerations/index.html) - [Kubernetes Volumes](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-volumes/index.html) - [Kubernetes workloads](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-workloads/index.html) - [Kustomize](/content/finops-glossary/kustomize/index.html) - [Kyverno vs. OPA: Kubernetes Policy Engines](/content/finops-glossary/kyverno-vs-opa-kubernetes-policy-engines/index.html) ## L - [Lambda AWS](/content/finops-glossary/aws-lambda/index.html) - [Launch Templates (AWS)](/content/finops-glossary/launch-templates-aws/index.html) - [Life cycle management in the cloud](/content/finops-glossary/life-cycle-management-cloud/index.html) - [Load Balancers](/content/finops-glossary/load-balancers/index.html) - [Log Aggregation](/content/finops-glossary/log-aggregation/index.html) ## M - [MaxUnavailable in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/maxunavailable-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [MicroK8s](/content/finops-glossary/microk8s/index.html) - [Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC)](/content/finops-glossary/microsoft-azure-consumption-commitment-macc/index.html) - [Migration Strategy](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-migration-strategy/index.html) - [Minikube](/content/finops-glossary/minikube/index.html) - [Multi-cloud strategy](/content/finops-glossary/multi-cloud-strategy/index.html) - [Multi-dimensional Autoscaling (MDA) in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/multi-dimensional-autoscaling-mda-in-kubernetes/index.html) ## N - [Nginx Pod in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/nginx-pod-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Node Allocatable](/content/finops-glossary/node-allocatable/index.html) - [NodePort in Kubernetes: A Glossary Overview](/content/finops-glossary/nodeport-in-kubernetes-a-glossary-overview/index.html) ## O - [On-demand instances](/content/finops-glossary/on-demand-instances/index.html) - [OOM (Out of Memory)](/content/finops-glossary/oom-out-of-memory/index.html) - [Open Standards (Cloud Computing)](/content/finops-glossary/open-standards-cloud-computing/index.html) - [OpenCost – A Guide to Kubernetes Cost Monitoring](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-opencost/index.html) - [Orphaned Snapshots (AWS)](/content/finops-glossary/orphaned-snapshots-aws/index.html) - [Overhead in Kubernetes: What It Is and How to Manage It Efficiently](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-overhead/index.html) ## P - [Pod Disruption Budgets (PDB): Ensuring Kubernetes Resilience](/content/finops-glossary/k8s-pod-disruption-budgets/index.html) - [Pod Priority Classes in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/pod-priority-classes-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Predictable variations (cloud costs)](/content/finops-glossary/predictable-variations/index.html) - [Private Cloud](/content/finops-glossary/private-cloud/index.html) - [Prometheus in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/prometheus/index.html) - [Provisioning cloud costs](/content/finops-glossary/cloud-cost-provisioning/index.html) - [Public Cloud](/content/finops-glossary/public-cloud/index.html) ## R - [Rancher Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/rancher-kubernetes/index.html) - [RDS (Relational Database Service)](/content/finops-glossary/rds/index.html) - [Readiness Probe in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/readiness-probe-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Recommendations](/content/finops-glossary/recommendations/index.html) - [ReplicaSets in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/replicasets-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Reserved Instances](/content/finops-glossary/reserved-instances/index.html) - [Resilience Hub (AWS)](/content/finops-glossary/resilience-hub-aws/index.html) - [Resource Utilization in Cloud Commitments](/content/finops-glossary/resource-utilization-in-cloud-commitments/index.html) - [Right Sizing](/content/finops-glossary/right-sizing/index.html) - [RollingUpdate in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/rollingupdate-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [runc in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/runc-in-kubernetes/index.html) ## S - [S3 (Simple Cloud Storage Service)](/content/finops-glossary/s3/index.html) - [Savings Plans](/content/finops-glossary/savings-plans/index.html) - [Scaling lag](/content/finops-glossary/scaling-lag/index.html) - [Secrets in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/secrets-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Shadow Deployments](/content/finops-glossary/shadow-deployments/index.html) - [Showback](/content/finops-glossary/show-back/index.html) - [Spot Instances](/content/finops-glossary/spot-instances/index.html) - [SSD (Solid State Drives)](/content/finops-glossary/ssd/index.html) - [StatefulSet in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/statefulset-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [StorageClass in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/storageclass-in-kubernetes/index.html) ## T - [Technology Business Management (TBM)](/content/finops-glossary/tbm/index.html) - [Tekton in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/tekton-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Terraform](/content/finops-glossary/terraform/index.html) ## U - [Understanding PVC AccessModes in Kubernetes](/content/finops-glossary/pvc-accessmodes-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [Unevictable Pods](/content/finops-glossary/unevictable-pods/index.html) - [Unpredictable variations (cloud costs)](/content/finops-glossary/unpredictable-variations/index.html) ## V - [vCluster](/content/finops-glossary/vcluster/index.html) - [Vendor lock-in](/content/finops-glossary/vendor-lock-in/index.html) ## W - [What are Resource Requests in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/what-are-resource-requests-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [What Are Storage Limits in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/storage-limits-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [What is a Cross-Region Kubernetes Cluster?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-a-cross-region-kubernetes-cluster/index.html) - [What is a Kubernetes Deployment?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-a-kubernetes-deployment/index.html) - [What is a Node Selector in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-a-node-selector-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [What Is Boot Time in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-boot-time/index.html) - [What is Capacity Rebalancing in AWS?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-capacity-rebalancing-in-aws/index.html) - [What is Egress in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-egress-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [What is EKS Automode?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-eks-automode/index.html) - [What Is Headroom in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-headroom-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [What is Helm in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-helm-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [What is hostPath in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-hostpath-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [What is K3s?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-k3s/index.html) - [What is kubectl port-forward?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-kubectl-port-forward-in-k8s/index.html) - [What is Kubernetes Networking?](/content/finops-glossary/kubernetes-networking/index.html) - [What is maxSurge in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/maxsurge-in-kubernetes/index.html) - [What is Node Affinity in Kubernetes?](/content/finops-glossary/what-is-node-affinity-in-kubernetes/index.html)