# Acronyms and abbreviations | Acronym | Expansion | Description | | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ACME | [Automatic Certificate Management Environment] | Protocol to automate the issuance and renewal of certificates without human interaction | | ACK | ACKnowledgement | | | ACL | [Access Control List][acl] | | | AD | Active Directory | | | ADR | [Architectural Decision Record][adr] | | | APK | Alpine Package Keeper | Package manager used by Alpine Linux | | APT | Advanced Package Tool | Package manager used by Debian Linux | | ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | | | AV | AntiVirus | | | AVR | Audio/Video Receiver | | | AWS | Amazon Web Services | | | BASH | [Bourne Again SHell][bash] | | | BIOS | Basic Input/Output System | | | BOINC | Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing | | | BSoD | Blue Screen of Death | | | BSS | Basic Service Set | Group of wireless devices that work with the same AP | | BSSID | Basic Service Set IDentifier | An AP's MAC address | | BYOD | Bring Your Own Device | | | CD | Continuous Delivery | Continuous creation and testing of artifacts, ready to be deployed at the end of the process | | CD | Continuous Deployment | | | CI | Continuous Integration | | | CLI | Command Line Interface | | | CMS | Content Management System | | | CN | Canonical Name | In Active Directory, the full path of an object in a canonical format | | CN | Common Name | In Active Directory, the last element in an object's Distinguished Name (DN) hierarchy | | CNI | [Container Network Interface][cni] | | | COTS | Commercial Off-The-Shelf | Available _as-is_, not optimized for specific scopes or objectives | | CSMA | Carrier-Sense Multiple Access | | | CSMA/CD | Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection | | | CSP | Cloud Service Provider | | | CSR | Certificate Signing Request | | | CSS | Cascading Style Sheets | | | CVE | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures | | | CVS | Concurrent Versioning System | | | DBMS | Data Base Management System | | | DKIM | DomainKeys Identified Mail | | | EA | Extended Attributes | | | EEPROM | Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory | | | ELI5 | Explain Like I'm 5 | | | ESS | Extended Service Set | Group of WAPs working together to offer the same wireless network | | ESSID | Extended Service Set IDentifier | The wireless network name shared in an ESS | | FHS | [Filesystem Hierarchy Standard][fhs] | | | FIFO | First In First Out | | | FILO | First In Last Out | | | FISH | [Friendly Interactive SHell][fish] | | | FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name | | | FS | FileSystem | | | FW | FireWall | | | GNU | GNU is Not Unix | | | GPG | GNU Privacy Guard | | | GUI | Graphical User Interface | | | HA | High Availability | Characteristic of a system which aims to ensure better or longer availability for its services | | HPC | High Performance Computing | Collections of systems and tools used to achieve a greater processing capacity than the single unit | | IaC | [Infrastructure as Code][iac] | | | IP | Internet Protocol | | | IPvX | Internet Protocol version X | | | ISP | Internet Service Provider | | | JDK | Java Development Kit | | | JIC | Just In Case | | | JIT | Just In Time | | | JRE | Java Runtime Engine | | | K8S | [Kubernetes] | | | KISS | Keep It Simple Stupid | Also see [KISS principle is not that simple] | | LAN | Local Area Network | | | LED | Light Emitting Diode | | | LIFO | Last In First Out | | | M2COTS | Mass Market COTS | Widely available COTS products | | OIDC | OpenID Connect | | | PDF | Portable Document Format | | | PEBCAK | Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard | | | PGP | Pretty Good Privacy | | | ROM | Read-Only Memory | | | RPM | Revolutions Per Minute | | | RPM | RPM Package Manager | Package management system used by Linux distributions like Red Hat, (open)SuSE and Fedora | | SAFE | Scaled Agile FramEwork | | | SBOM | Software Bill Of Materials | See [SBOM at a Glance] | | SIEM | [Security Information and Event Management)][siem] | | | SOPS | Secrets OPerationS | | | SPIFFE | Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone | | | SQL | Structured Query Language | | | SSH | [Secure SHell][ssh] | | | SSID | Service Set IDentifier | A wireless network name | | SSSD | [System Security Services Daemon][sssd] | | | TCP | Transport Control Protocol | | | TFE | [TerraForm Enterprise] | | | TIL | Today I Learned | | | TL;DR | Too Long; Didn't Read | | | UDP | User Datagram Protocol | | | UFW | Uncomplicated FireWall | | | URI | Uniform Resource Identifier | | | URL | Uniform Resource Locator | | | URN | Uniform Resource Name | | | USB | Universal Serial Bus | | | UT | Unit Test | | | UX | User eXperience | | | VIM | [VI iMproved][vim] | | | WAN | Wide Area Network | | | WAP | Wireless Access Point | | | WiMAX | Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access | | | WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network | | | XML | eXtensible Markup Language | | | XSS | Cross-Site Scripting | | | YAGNI | You Ain't Gonna Need It | | | YAML | [YAML Ain't Markup Language][yaml] | | | ZFS | [Zettabyte FileSystem][zfs] | | | ZSH | [Z SHell][zsh] | | | ZSTD | [ZSTandarD][zstd] | | ## Sources - [CN (canonicalName vs CommonName) In Active Directory Explained] - [KISS principle is not that simple] - [SBOM at a Glance] - [What is OpenID Connect] - [Continuous delivery] [acl]: acl.md [adr]: adr.md [bash]: bash.md [cni]: cni.md [fhs]: fhs.placeholder [fish]: fish.md [iac]: iac.md [kubernetes]: kubernetes/README.md [siem]: siem.md [ssh]: ssh.md [sssd]: sssd.md [terraform enterprise]: terraform%20enterprise.md [vim]: vim.md [yaml]: yaml.md [zfs]: zfs.md [zsh]: zsh.md [zstd]: zstd.md [automatic certificate management environment]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Certificate_Management_Environment [cn (canonicalName vs commonName) in active directory explained]: https://www.itechguides.com/what-is-cn-in-active-directory/ [continuous delivery]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_delivery [kiss principle is not that simple]: https://artero.dev/posts/kiss-principle-is-not-that-simple/ [sbom at a glance]: https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/sbom_at_a_glance_apr2021_0.pdf [what is openid connect]: https://openid.net/developers/how-connect-works/