DevOps Glossary
ACI: Application Centric Infrastructure
AIO: All-in-One
ALGOL: Algorithmic Language
AMI: Amazon Machine Image
API: Application Program Interface
ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ATDD: Acceptance Test-Driven Development
BDD: Behavior-Driven Development
BM: Bare Metal
BoF: Birds of a Feather
CAB: Change Advisory Boards
CAMS: Culture-Automation-Measurement-Sharing
CAPEX: Capital Expenditures
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CI/CD: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
CM: Configuration Management
CMO: Chief Marketing Officer
COBOL: Common Business-Oriented Language
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CRUD: Create-Replace-Update-Delete
CTO: Chief Technology Officer
CVEs: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
DBA: Database Administrator
DISA: Defense Information Systems Agency
DLOQ: Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire
DNS: Domain Name System
DOES: DevOps Enterprise Summit
DR: Disaster Recovery
DSL: Domain-Specific Language
DTR: Docker Trusted Registry
EBS: Amazon Elastic Block Store
ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
EMT: Emergency Medical Technician
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
ETTO: Efficiency-Thoroughness-Trade-Off Principle
FAI: Fully Automatic Installation
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency (in the US)
FIT: Fault Injection Technology
FPGA: Field-Programmable Gate Array
GM: General Motors
GUI: Graphical User Interface
HBR: Harvard Business Review
IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
ICE: Inclusivity, Complexity, Empathy
IMOC: Incident manager on Call
ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure Library
JIT: Just-in-Time Model
KPI: Key Performance Indicator
LISA: Large Installation System Administration Conference
LRR: Launch Readiness Review
LXC: Linux Containers
MAAS: Machine as a Service (from Canonical)
MAD: Median Absolute Deviation
MBO: Management by Objective
MRD: Market Requirement Document
MTBF: Mean Time between Failures
MTTD: Mean Time to Detect
MTTR: Mean Time to Recover/Resolve
MVP: Minimum Viable Product
NI: National Instruments
NOC: Network Operations Center
NUMMI: The New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated
NYSE: New York Stock Exchange
OKR: Objectives and Key Results
OPEX: Operating Expenses
OSI: Open Systems Interconnection model
PaaS: Platform as a Service
PDCA: Plan-Do-Check-Act
PGA: Programmable Gate Array
PIE: Programmable Infrastructure Environment
QA: Quality Assurance
R&D: Research and Development
ROI: Return on Investment
SaaS: Software as a Service
SBI: The Situation, Behavior, Impact Feedback Tool
SDLC: Software Development Lifecycle
SDN: Software Defined Networking
SEC: Securities and Exchange Commission
SLA: Service Level Agreement
SLI: Service Level Indicator
SLO: Service Level Objective (deprecated)
SLT: Service Level Target (formerly known as SLO)
SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture
SRE: Site Reliability Engineering (Google)
TDD: Test-Driven Development
TOC: Theory of Constraints
TPS: Toyota Production System
UX: User Experience Design
VM: Virtual Machine
VMDK: Virtual Machine Disk
WIP: Work in Progress