# Appendix A — Glossary

Alphabetical. Cross-referenced to chapters where each term is used in
detail.

## Kubernetes / k3s

**ClusterIP**: Internal IP of a Kubernetes Service. Stable; load-
balances to backing pods. (Chapter 3)

**containerd**: Container runtime bundled with k3s. Replaces Docker for
the runtime layer. (Chapter 2)

**ConfigMap**: Kubernetes resource holding non-sensitive config (env
vars). Mounted into pods via `envFrom`. (Chapter 10)

**CoreDNS**: Cluster-internal DNS resolver. Every pod's
`/etc/resolv.conf` points to the CoreDNS Service. (Chapter 3)

**CRD (Custom Resource Definition)**: Kubernetes extension mechanism
for third-party resource types. Traefik's `IngressRoute` and
`Middleware` are CRDs. (Chapter 6)

**DaemonSet**: Workload that runs exactly one pod per node. We use it
for Traefik so each node has its own ingress pod. (Chapter 6)

**Deployment**: Kubernetes workload for stateless pods. Supports rolling
updates. Most of our services are Deployments. (Chapter 7)

**Endpoints**: The actual pod IPs backing a Service's ClusterIP.
Dynamically updated as pods come and go. (Chapter 3)

**etcd**: Distributed key-value store holding cluster state. K3s
embeds it. Raft-replicated across server nodes. (Chapter 2)

**Flannel**: Kubernetes CNI (Container Network Interface) plugin for
pod-to-pod networking. Uses VXLAN tunneling. (Chapter 3)

**HPA (HorizontalPodAutoscaler)**: K8s resource that scales Deployment
replicas based on CPU/memory usage. Not currently enabled for us.
(Chapter 7)

**Ingress**: K8s resource describing external-to-internal routing rules.
Traefik watches Ingresses and programs itself accordingly. (Chapter 6)

**IPVS**: Linux kernel feature for in-kernel L4 load balancing. Our
kube-proxy uses it. (Chapter 3)

**k3s**: Lightweight Kubernetes distribution by Rancher/SUSE. What we
run. (Chapter 2)

**kubectl**: Kubernetes CLI tool. Runs on operator workstation.
(Chapter 17)

**kubelet**: Agent running on each node, responsible for pod lifecycle.
(Chapter 2)

**kube-proxy**: Service-to-pod routing component. Runs on each node in
IPVS mode. (Chapter 3)

**Namespace**: Kubernetes logical grouping. Our app lives in `honeydue`.
System services in `kube-system`. (Chapter 7)

**NetworkPolicy**: K8s resource defining allowed traffic between pods.
Not currently applied. (Chapter 5)

**Node**: A physical or virtual machine running Kubernetes. We have 3.
(Chapter 1)

**PDB (PodDisruptionBudget)**: Constraint on voluntary pod disruptions
(drain, upgrade). Keeps N replicas available. (Chapter 7)

**Pod**: Smallest Kubernetes unit — one or more containers sharing
network and storage. Our pods are usually one-container. (Chapter 7)

**PVC (PersistentVolumeClaim)**: Request for persistent storage. Redis
uses one. (Chapter 7)

**RBAC**: Role-Based Access Control. Governs who/what can do what via
the Kubernetes API. (Chapter 5)

**ReplicaSet**: Managed by a Deployment; ensures N pods of a template
are running. Each deploy creates a new ReplicaSet. (Chapter 14)

**Secret**: K8s resource holding sensitive values. Base64-encoded;
stored in etcd (unencrypted by default). (Chapter 10)

**Service**: K8s resource providing a stable endpoint (ClusterIP) for
a set of pods. (Chapter 3)

**ServiceAccount**: Identity used by pods to authenticate to the
Kubernetes API. We disable token mounting for our app pods.
(Chapter 5)

**Taint / Toleration**: Mechanism to prevent pods from being scheduled
on certain nodes. Not used in our setup. (Chapter 7)

## Docker / Swarm

**libnetwork**: Docker's networking library. Provides overlay
networking for Swarm. Source of the DNS ghost bug (Chapter 19).

**mode: global**: Swarm deploy mode for services running one pod per
node. (Chapter 19)

**mode: host**: Port publishing mode that binds to node's real
interface, bypassing the ingress mesh. (Chapter 4)

**Overlay network**: Encrypted or unencrypted virtual network spanning
Swarm nodes. (Chapter 19)

**Swarm**: Docker's built-in orchestrator. What we used to run.
(Chapter 19)

**VXLAN**: Virtual Extensible LAN. Layer-2 over Layer-3 tunneling.
Used by both Swarm overlay and Kubernetes Flannel. (Chapter 3)

## Cloudflare

**Flexible SSL**: CF SSL mode where CF↔origin is HTTP. Our current
setup. (Chapter 13)

**Full (strict) SSL**: CF SSL mode where CF↔origin is HTTPS with cert
verification. Our target. (Chapter 13)

**Origin CA**: CF-internal certificate authority that issues certs CF's
edge trusts. Used for Full strict mode. (Chapter 13)

**POP (Point of Presence)**: A CF edge location. ~300 globally.
(Chapter 13)

**Proxied (orange cloud)**: DNS record with CF proxying on. Traffic
goes through CF. (Chapter 13)

**Workers**: CF's serverless compute at the edge. We don't use yet.
(Chapter 20)

## Hetzner

**CX33**: Hetzner Cloud instance type. 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD.
(Chapter 1)

**Cloud Firewall**: Hetzner's provider-level firewall feature. We use
UFW on nodes instead. (Chapter 4)

**nbg1**: Nuremberg datacenter code. Our region. (Chapter 1)

## Neon

**Branch**: Neon's isolation primitive. Each project can have multiple
branches (prod, staging, dev). (Chapter 8)

**CU (Compute Unit)**: Neon's pricing unit for compute.
(Chapter 8)

**Launch plan**: Neon's entry-level paid plan. $5 min + usage.
(Chapter 8)

**Pooler**: Neon's built-in PgBouncer instance at the `-pooler` hostname
suffix. (Chapter 8)

## Backblaze B2

**B2**: Backblaze's object storage. What we use for uploads.
(Chapter 9)

**App key**: B2's bucket-scoped credential. Not an IAM-flavored role.
(Chapter 9)

**S3-compatible**: API that speaks AWS S3 protocol. B2 supports it.
(Chapter 9)

## Go + Asynq

**AutoMigrate**: GORM function that syncs DB schema to Go structs.
We used this in production until 2026-04, replaced by goose. Tests
still use it via `testutil.SetupTestDB`. (Chapter 8)

**Asynq**: Go library for background job queues. Redis-backed.
(Chapter 7)

**goose**: pressly/goose — the SQL migration tool we use in production
(commit 12b2f9d onward). Migration files live in `migrations/`, one
file per version with `-- +goose Up` / `-- +goose Down` markers.
(Chapter 8)

**goose_db_version**: goose's version-tracking table. One row per
applied migration. `RequireSchemaApplied` reads the latest row at
api/worker startup to fail fast on a stale schema. (Chapter 8)

**GORM**: Go ORM we use. (Chapter 8)

**pgx**: Go Postgres driver used by GORM. (Chapter 8)

**sync.Once**: Go stdlib primitive for "run this exactly once." Source
of bug #6 (Chapter 19).

## Other

**advisory lock**: A Postgres lock that doesn't block rows but lets
apps coordinate voluntarily. We use for migration serialization.
(Chapter 8)

**AOF (Append-Only File)**: Redis persistence mode that logs every
write. (Chapter 7)

**MTU**: Maximum Transmission Unit. Packet size limit. VXLAN reduces
effective MTU by 50 bytes. (Chapter 3)

**Raft**: Consensus algorithm. Used by etcd. (Chapter 2)

**STARTTLS**: SMTP upgrade from plain to TLS. Used for Fastmail.
(Chapter 5)

**UFW**: Uncomplicated Firewall. Frontend for iptables. (Chapter 4)

**VXLAN**: See Docker/Swarm section.