;BLU : Boston Linux & Unix = a Linux User Group in Boston, MA, USA with roots that go back into the days of Unix before Linux was a thing
;BMW : Bavarian Motor Works = German car company
;CIDR : [[wp:Classless Inter-Domain Routing|Classless Inter-Domain Routing]]
;coax: coaxial cable
;CNCF:Cloud Native Computing Foundation https://www.cncf.io/ - a sub-foundation of the Linux Foundation.
;JSON: JavaScript Object Notation = A data representation format in JavaScript
;KIO: KDE Input/Output slaves
;Kompose: [https://kompose.io/ kompose] is a tool to help users who are familiar with [[docker-compose]] move to [[Kubernetes]]. kompose takes a Compose Specification file and translates it into Kubernetes resources.
;Kubectl: (Kyoob' cuddle) a command line tool for communicating with a [[Kubernetes]] cluster's control plane, using the Kubernetes API.
;Kustomize: Kubernetes native configuration management built into [[kubectl]] as <code>apply -k</code>.