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Acronyms and abbreviations
| Acronym | Expansion | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ACK | ACKnowledgement | |
| ACL | Access Control List | |
| ACME | Automatic Certificate Management Environment | Protocol to automate the issuance and renewal of certificates without human interaction |
| 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 | 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 | |
| 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 |
| ETL | Extract, Transform and Load | The process of combining data from multiple sources into a large, central data warehouse |
| 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 |
| OIDC | OpenID Connect | |
| 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 |
| SaaSS | Service as a Software Substitute | Using a service as a substitute for running a copy of a program. |
| SAFE | Scaled Agile FramEwork | |
| SBOM | Software Bill Of Materials | See SBOM at a Glance |
| SIEM | Security Information and Event Management) | |
| 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 |