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: Workload
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id: workload
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date: 2019-02-12
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full_link: /docs/concepts/workloads/
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short_description: >
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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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aka:
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tags:
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- workload
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---
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A workload consists of a system of services or applications that can run to fulfill a
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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
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the infrastructure resources that actually run that code.
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For example, a workload that has a web element and a database element might run the
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database in one {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="StatefulSet" >}} of
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{{< glossary_tooltip text="pods" term_id="pod" >}} and the webserver via
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a {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="Deployment" >}} that consists of many web app
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{{< glossary_tooltip text="pods" term_id="pod" >}}, all alike.
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The organisation running this workload may well have other workloads that together
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provide a valuable outcome to its users.
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