Software Infrastructure (DevOps)

RANCID

Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ is a network management tool that can monitor configuration changes on network devices, and mail the diffs periodically. RANCID uses Expect to connect to the routers, send some commands and put the results in files.

Raygun

Full stack error, crash, and performance monitoring software. Provides the ability to detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users.

RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol is a protocol that allows you to access remote computers without direct contact with them. The user can see all the files, run applications and perform all other tasks, as if depending on the computer.

Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing open source software products to the enterprise community.

RHCE

Stands for Red Hat Certified Engineer. RHCE is a mid- to advanced-level certification that builds on topics covered in the RHCSA certification to include more advanced topics such as security and installing common enterprise networking (IP) services.

RHCSA

Stands for Red Hat Certified System Administrator. RHCSA is an entry-level certification that focuses on actual competencies at system administration, including installation and configuration of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system and attach it to a live network running network services.

RHEL

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution operating system designed for businesses, delivers military-grade security, 99.999% uptime, support for business-critical workloads. Works on desktops, servers, in the cloud, etc.

RPM

Stands for Red Hat Package Manager. It´s a package management system. Used to build, install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages.

RTP

Stands for Real-Time Transport Protocol. A network protocol used for transferring video and audio data. It is mostly used in entertainment and communication systems, such as real-time media streaming applications, teleconference services and web-based television. RTP uses a control protocol (RTCP) for monitoring data transport, especially for large networks.

Sailfish OS

Sailfish OS is a Linux-based operating system based on open source projects such as Mer and including a closed source UI. 

SaltStack

A configuration management software stack for fast and scalable deployment and event-driven automation in cloud management. Supports the IaaS approach for deploying and managing cloud computing.

Screen

A full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Programs continue to run when their window is currently not visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the users terminal.

Sensu

A monitoring tool used for storing data, monitoring cloud environments, servers, containers, services, applications, network devices, remote resources. Sensu aims to be simple, malleable and scalable, and it is written in Ruby.

Servers

A server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called "clients". This architecture is called the client–server model, and a single overall computation is distributed across multiple processes or devices. 

Shell

A software interface that enables the user to interact with the computer, it provides UI for access to an OS's services. Shells use either a command-line interface or GUI, it is an environment in which we can run our commands, programs, and shell scripts.

Shell script

A command-line interpreter, contains a sequence of commands for a Unix-based operating system, usually created for command sequences for which a user has a repeated need.

SIP

Session Initiation Protocol is a telephony signaling protocol used in VoIP communications for initiating an interactive user session that involves multimedia elements such as video, voice, chat, gaming, virtual reality, mostly used for free.

Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering is a discipline that incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems. The main goals are to create scalable and highly reliable software systems.

SMB

Stands for Server Message Block. It is an internet protocol for the application layer, used for shared printer, files and serial ports access. SMB is usually involved in client-server communication on  Microsoft Windows computers.

SMP

Symmetric Multiprocessing is an architecture of multiprocessor computers in which two or more identical processors of comparable performance are connected uniformly to the shared memory and perform the same functions. 

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a TCP/IP protocol used in sending and receiving emails, usually used with one of POP3 or IMAP, allows users save messages in a server mailbox and download them from the server.

SNMP

Stands for Simple Network Management Protocol. An application-layer protocol designed for monitoring and managing network devices, such as routers, switches and wi-fi connected devices, and their functions. SNMP uses one or more manager-computers to oversee the devices via an agent, a software program that feeds information to managers.

Software installations and upgrades

Software installation refers to the particular configuration of a software or hardware with a view to making it usable with the computer. Software upgrade refers to any major upgrade to the software that adds significant or completely new changes to the program.

Solaris

An Unix-based operating system that was developed for the SPARC platform, since 2010, belongs together with Oracle's Sun assets. Despite the fact that Solaris is an operating system with closed source code, most of it is open and published in the OpenSolaris project.

Solus

An independent Linux distribution that uses Budgie as the desktop environment and Eopkg for package management. Solus - an operating system for modern PCs, the main purpose of which is convenience in use. The operating system is built from scratch and does not depend on any other distributions.