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Acronyms and abbreviations

Acronym	Expansion	Description
ACK	ACKnowledgement
ACL	Access Control List
AD	Active Directory
ADR	Architectural Decision Record
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
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
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
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
FIFO	First In First Out
FILO	First In Last Out
FISH	Friendly Interactive SHell
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
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
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
SOPS	Secrets OPerationS
SPIFFE	Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone
SQL	Structured Query Language
SSH	Secure SHell
SSID	Service Set IDentifier	A wireless network name
SSSD	System Security Services Daemon
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
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
ZFS	Zettabyte FileSystem
ZSH	Z SHell
ZSTD	ZSTandarD

Sources

• CN (canonicalName vs CommonName) In Active Directory Explained
• KISS principle is not that simple
• SBOM at a Glance