Tim Bannister
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* 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, id, date, full_link, short_description, aka, tags
| title | id | date | full_link | short_description | aka | tags | |
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| Workload | workload | 2019-02-12 | /docs/concepts/workloads/ | A set of applications for processing information to serve a purpose that is valuable to a single user or group of users. |
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A workload consists of a system of services or applications that can run to fulfill a task or carry out a business process.
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.