Glossary
Precise language for operators evaluating infrastructure automation.
- AI Infrastructure Engineer
- An autonomous system that plans, executes, verifies, and remediates infrastructure work—distinct from chatbots that only explain.
- Verified deploy
- A deployment considered complete only when remote evidence shows the app is running and reachable, not when clone/build alone succeeded.
- Self-healing
- Detecting classified failures, applying known remediations with guardrails, and re-verifying outcomes automatically.
- Deploy profile
- Stored path and command sequence (pull, pre-deploy, restart) for a repository so auto-deploy can replay a known-good procedure.
- Agent transport
- Outbound agent connectivity for host command execution without relying on inbound SSH for the chat path.
- Golden signals
- Latency, traffic, errors, and saturation—the four baseline measurement classes for service reliability.
- Error budget
- The allowed unreliability for an SLO period; guides how aggressively teams can ship versus stabilize.
- Mutation approval
- Operator consent before remote commands that change host state; may be remembered per server after explicit Yes.
- Immutable tag
- An image tag that always resolves to the same artifact (typically a git SHA), preventing silent retargeting of :latest.
- Blast radius
- How far a failure or change can reach. Lowering blast radius limits multi-tenant host accidents and bad deploys.