Glossary of Terms

This document provides a consolidated list of commonly used abbreviations and their definitions within the context of containerized storage, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and cloud-native ecosystems.

Abbreviations	Definition
AKS	Azure Kubernetes Service
CLI	Command Line Interface
CNS	Container Native Storage
COW	Copy-On-Write
CR	Custom Resource
CRDs	Custom Resource Definitions
CSI	Container Storage Interface
EKS	Elastic Kubernetes Service
FIO	Flexible IO Tester
FSB	File System Backup
GCP	Google Cloud Platform
GCS	Google Cloud Storage
GKE	Google Kubernetes Engine
HA	High Availability
HDD	Hard Disk Drive
IOPS	Input/Output Operations Per Second
LVM	Logical Volume Management
NATS	Neural Autonomic Transport System
NFS	Network File System
NVMe	Non-Volatile Memory Express
NVMe-oF	Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics
PV	Persistent Volume
PVC	Persistent Volume Claim
RDS	Relational Database Service
RBAC	Role-Based Access Control
RWX	ReadWriteMany
SSD	Solid State Drive
SSH	Secure Socket Shell
SPDK	Storage Performance Development Kit
SRE	Site Reliability Engineering
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
VG	Volume Group
YAML	Yet Another Markup Language
ZFS	Zettabyte File System