Orchestration Glossary

Browse 9 orchestration terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

9 Orchestration Terms

AI Chain
A sequence of AI-related steps in which the output of one model call or processing stage becomes input to the next. AI chains are used for workflows like...
AI Multi-Agent
Describing an AI system in which multiple agents or agent-like components cooperate, specialize, or divide work rather than relying on a single monolithic...
Cluster Orchestration
The automated coordination of workloads across a cluster, including scheduling, placement, restart behavior, scaling, and network wiring. Cluster orchestration...
Container Cluster
A cluster of machines or nodes configured to run and manage containerized workloads together. Container clusters are typically paired with orchestration...
Hashicorp Nomad
A workload scheduler from HashiCorp used to deploy and manage containerized and non-containerized applications.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes, often abbreviated as K8s, is an open-source container orchestration platform originally designed by Google and now maintained by the Cloud Native...
Pod
The smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes — a group of one or more containers that share the same network namespace (IP address and ports), storage volumes,...
Swarm
Docker Swarm — Docker's native container orchestration tool, offering simpler setup than Kubernetes at the cost of fewer features. The 'we don't need...
Temporal
An open-source durable execution platform (originally forked from Uber's Cadence) that lets developers write long-running, fault-tolerant workflows as ordinary...

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