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An open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Originally developed by Google, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the standard for container orchestration. It provides declarative configuration, self-healing, horizontal scaling, and service discovery. Key components include pods, services, deployments, and namespaces.

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GitOps

An operational framework that uses Git repositories as the single source of truth for infrastructure and application configurations.

RDMA

Remote Direct Memory Access - a technology that allows direct memory access between computers without involving the CPU.

Qubit

The fundamental unit of quantum information, analogous to a classical bit but capable of existing in superposition states.

Kernel

The core component of an operating system that manages system resources and provides services to applications.

NVMe

Non-Volatile Memory Express - a specification for accessing solid-state storage over PCIe.

Tensor Core

Specialized processing units in NVIDIA GPUs designed for matrix operations common in deep learning.