fix(docs): re-ordered small paragraphs, clarified wording, and added links to tech homepages

docs/application-baseline.md

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 | **Capability**                     | **Application**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
 | ---------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **Service Mesh**                   | **Istio:** A powerful service mesh tool that provides traffic management, load balancing, security, and observability features.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
-| **Monitoring**                     | **Prometheus Stack:** Collects and stores time-series data for insights into application health and performance.<br><br> **Grafana:** Provides visualization and alerting capabilities for monitoring metrics.<br><br> **Metrics Server:** Offers resource utilization metrics for Kubernetes clusters, aiding in capacity planning and optimization. |
-| **Logging**                        | **Loki:** A log aggregation system that allows users to store, search, and analyze logs across their applications.<br><br> **Promtail:** A companion agent that efficiently gathers and sends log data to Loki, simplifying log monitoring, troubleshooting, and compliance auditing, enhancing the overall observability of the mission environment. |
-| **Security and Compliance**        | **NeuVector:** Offers container-native security, protecting applications against threats and vulnerabilities.<br><br> **Pepr:** UDS policy engine and operator for enhanced security and compliance.                                                                                                                                                  |
-| **Identity and Access Management** | **Keycloak:** A robust open-source Identity and Access Management solution, providing centralized authentication, authorization, and user management for enhanced security and control over access to mission-critical resources.                                                                                                                     |
-| **Backup and Restore**             | **Velero:** Provides backup and restore capabilities for Kubernetes clusters, ensuring data protection and disaster recovery.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| **Authorization**                  | **AuthService:** Offers centralized authorization services, managing access control and permissions within the mission environment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| **Service Mesh**                   | **[Istio](https://istio.io/):** A powerful service mesh that provides traffic management, load balancing, security, and observability features.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| **Monitoring**                     | **[Metrics Server](https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/metrics-server/):** Provides container resource utilization metrics API for Kubernetes clusters.<br><br>**[Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/):** Scrapes Metrics Server API and application metrics and stores the data in a time-series database for insights into application health and performance.<br><br> **[Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/):** Provides visualization and alerting capabilities based on Prometheus's time-series database of metrics. |
+| **Logging**                        | **[Promtail](https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/promtail/):** A companion agent that efficiently gathers and sends container logs to Loki, simplifying log monitoring, troubleshooting, and compliance auditing, enhancing the overall observability of the mission environment.<br><br> **[Loki](https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/):** A log aggregation system that allows users to store, search, and analyze logs across their applications. |
+| **Security and Compliance**        | **[NeuVector](https://open-docs.neuvector.com/):** Offers container-native security, protecting applications against threats and vulnerabilities.<br><br> **[Pepr](https://pepr.dev/):** UDS policy engine and operator for enhanced security and compliance.|
+| **Identity and Access Management** | **[Keycloak](https://www.keycloak.org/):** A robust open-source Identity and Access Management solution, providing centralized authentication, authorization, and user management for enhanced security and control over access to mission-critical resources.|
+| **Backup and Restore**             | **[Velero](https://velero.io/):** Provides backup and restore capabilities for Kubernetes clusters, ensuring data protection and disaster recovery.|
+| **Authorization**                  | **[AuthService](https://github.com/istio-ecosystem/authservice):** Offers centralized authorization services, managing access control and permissions within the Istio mesh. AuthService plays a supporting role to Keycloak as it handles part of the OIDC redirect flow.|