Technical Glossary
Mechanism-first definitions for commands, architecture patterns, and key concepts across Docker, Kubernetes, Gen AI, and Agentic AI.
Declarative plain-text build manifest consumed by BuildKit to assemble container image layers sequentially.
Concurrent, DAG-based image builder engine in Docker offering parallel step execution and secret mounting.
HTTP API service storing and serving versioned OCI image manifests and content-addressable layer blobs.
Package manager for Kubernetes bundling YAML templates and default value overrides into versioned Charts.
Primary node agent ensuring containers described in PodSpecs are instantiated and healthy on worker hosts.
Database engine specialized for indexing and performing fast nearest-neighbor similarity searches over vector embeddings.