Glossary

Dictionary for IT & Software Development

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Agile Software Development
Agile software development encompasses a variety of methodologies and work practices that aim to increase transparency and reduce time to market of products.
Air Gap
A high-security concept for critical IT infrastructures.
Automation
Reduction of manual work steps. Automation aims at creating more efficient processes.

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Backend
A system that is not visible to the user, because it operates in the background.

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Citizen Developer
Citizen developers are technically skilled employees in companies who develop software applications outside of IT departments, both for internal use and for customers.
Cloudogu EcoSystem
A software development platform that provides pre-assembled and interlinked tools.
Continuous Delivery
Changes are being shipped continuously and instantly to the client or customer.
Continuous Deployment
Changes are being deployed continuously on a server for internal use, e.g. for manual testing.
Continuous Integration
Changes are being continuously build and automatically tested in order to find bugs or problems as early as possible.

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DevOps
DevOps stands for “Development” and “Operations”. It is an approach to bring those two departments closer together. The goal is to improve efficiency in processes.
Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty describes the ability of organizations to have self-determination and independence over their digital data and infrastructures.
Digital Transformation
The term ‘Digital Transformation’ describes the process of expanding a portfolio of analog products to include digital offerings.
Docker
Docker is a software-solution, which allows the isolation of applications via container-technology.
Dogu
A Dogu is a containerized tool, that is part of the Cloudogu EcoSystem.

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Easy Redmine
Easy Redmine is an open source tool for project management that offers several additional features for companies.

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GitOps
GitOps is a concept where the source code management plays a vital role for the operation of software in clusters.

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Instance
An instance of Cloudogu EcoSystem is one installation of the system. Each Cloudogu EcoSystem instance needs to be registered at the Cloudogu backend.
IT Infrastructure
In general, IT-infrastructure describes all material and immaterial goods that enable the development and operation of software applications.
IT Infrastructure Management
Describes the coordination of IT infrastructure resources and systems.

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Jenkins
Jenkins is an open source automation server for continuous integration and continuous delivery.

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Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source solution for to automate orchestration of containerized applications, for example with Docker©.

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Low Code
The idea behind low-code development is to enable people without extensive programming skills to develop software applications in order to solve the bottleneck of IT resources.
LowOps
A concept that aims to reduce administration (i.e. "ops") by simplifying the deployment, operation and monitoring of software tools, e.g. through automation, standardization and generalization.

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On-Premises
On-premises means that a system is located inside an organization's territory or locally. Applications that are operated on-premises are hosted on servers that are owned or rented by the organization.
Open Source
Open source is a way to license software. The special characteristic of this licensing model is that the source code of the software is public and can be copied and modified.

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Pipeline
A pipeline in software development is a process that is divided into several steps. Each step contains activities that are relevant to the development of the software.

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Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a cloud model in which software applications are delivered to customers under a subscription sales model.
Single Sign-On
With Single Sign-on (SSO) a user can access several different applications or services without any further login requests after one initial authentication.
Scaling
Generally, scaling or scalability of a system is the ability of this system, network or process to change its size or to grow.
Smeagol
Smeagol is an open source wiki that stores the content in Git repositories. This way it simplifies the documentation of code and configurations.
Software Development Life Cycle
The “Software Development Life Cycle” (SDLC) describes the phases that a software product runs through during its development.
SonarQube
SonarQube is an open source platform for static code analysis, used to verify the technical quality of the source code.
System Landscape
In IT, the term system landscape describes all software applications and their required network components of an organization.

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Toolchain
A toolchain is a set of tools that are connected or interlinked to each other. These connections create a chain of tools to automate processes.
Transformability
Transformability is the ability to anticipate strong changes in one's own environment and to react successfully to them.

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Vendor Lock-in
Vendor lock-in describes a strong dependency on products or services of one provider. High switching costs make it difficult to change providers.