Appendix A. Key Terms

By Noah Gift

This section contains select key terms that crop up often in teaching cloud computing, MLOps, and machine learning engineering:

Alerts

Alerts are health metrics that have actions associated with them. An example would be an alert that sends a text message to a software engineer when a web service returns multiple error status codes.

Amazon ECR

Amazon ECR is a container registry that stores Docker format containers.

Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service created by Amazon.

Autoscaling

Autoscaling is the process of scaling load up or down automatically based on how many resources the nodes are using.

AWS Cloud9

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based development environment running in AWS. It has special hooks for developing serverless applications.

AWS Lambda

A serverless compute platform by AWS that has FaaS capability.

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Azure Container Instances is a managed service from Microsoft that allows you to run container images without managing servers to host them.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes service created by Microsoft.

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Build server

A build server is an application that works in both the testing and deployment of software. Popular build servers can be both SaaS or open source. Here are a few popular options:

  • Jenkins is an open source build server that can run anywhere ...

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