Add "workload" to glossary (#12622)

* Add "workload" to glossary

* Use en_US spelling of "fulfill"

* Revise short description

Co-Authored-By: Tim Bannister <tim@scalefactory.com>
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---
title: Workload
id: workload
date: 2019-02-12
full_link: /docs/concepts/workloads/
short_description: >
A set of applications for processing information to serve a purpose that is valuable to a single user or group of users.
aka:
tags:
- workload
---
A workload consists of a system of services or applications that can run to fulfill a
task or carry out a business process.
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Alongside the computer code that runs to carry out the task, a workload also entails
the infrastructure resources that actually run that code.
For example, a workload that has a web element and a database element might run the
database in one {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="StatefulSet" >}} of
{{< glossary_tooltip text="pods" term_id="pod" >}} and the webserver via
a {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="Deployment" >}} that consists of many web app
{{< glossary_tooltip text="pods" term_id="pod" >}}, all alike.
The organisation running this workload may well have other workloads that together
provide a valuable outcome to its users.