| AKS | Azure Kubernetes Service |
| CLI | Command Line Interface |
| CNCF | Cloud Native Computing Foundation |
| CNS | Container Native Storage |
| COS | Container Orchestration Systems |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| OpenEBS | Open Elastic Block Store |
| PV | Persistent Volume |
| PVC | Persistent Volume Claim |
| RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
| RWX | Read-Write-Many |
| 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 |
