Technology Index

1Password is a password manager and secrets platform for storing, generating and sharing credentials, passkeys and other sensitive information. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Active Directory is Microsoft's directory service for centrally managing Windows identities, computers, groups, policy and access within an organisation.

Active Directory Certificate Services is Microsoft's Windows Server role for operating an enterprise public key infrastructure and issuing digital certificates.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

Ansible is an automation platform for configuring systems, deploying applications and orchestrating repeatable operational changes. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed NoSQL database designed for high availability and horizontal scale across multiple nodes and locations.

Apache Kafka is a distributed event-streaming platform for publishing, retaining and processing high-volume ordered streams of records. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

An application programming interface is a defined contract through which software components request data or operations from one another. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Apple Business Manager is Apple's web portal for organisational device enrolment, managed Apple Accounts and application or book purchasing. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Argo CD is a declarative GitOps continuous-delivery controller for Kubernetes. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual-machine compute instances within AWS. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

AWS Identity and Access Management controls authentication and authorisation for identities and resources in AWS accounts. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

AWS Lambda is a serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers.

Amazon S3 is AWS object storage for durable files, backups, data lakes, logs and application assets. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Azure DevOps is Microsoft's suite for source control, work tracking, build and release automation, testing and software delivery collaboration. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Azure Functions is Microsoft's event-driven serverless compute service for running functions on demand. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Azure Key Vault is a managed service for protecting secrets, encryption keys and certificates used by applications and infrastructure. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Azure Virtual Machines provides configurable Windows and Linux compute instances in Microsoft Azure. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Bash is a Unix shell and scripting language used to run commands, compose pipelines and automate operating-system tasks. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Border Gateway Protocol is the routing protocol used to exchange reachability information between autonomous systems and large routed networks. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Continuous integration and continuous delivery are practices for automatically validating, packaging and releasing software changes. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Conditional Access is Microsoft Entra's policy engine for allowing, blocking or constraining sign-ins according to identity and session risk. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Configuration management is the discipline of defining, applying and verifying the desired state of systems and software. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

containerd is a production container runtime that manages container images, execution, storage and lifecycle on a host. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.