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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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RDMA

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

Tensor Core

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

Kernel

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

cgroups

Control groups - a Linux kernel feature for limiting, accounting, and isolating resource usage of process collections.

Quantum Entanglement

A quantum mechanical phenomenon where particles become correlated so that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently.

GitOps

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