Toil
/tɔɪl/
Definition
Manual, repetitive operational work that scales linearly with service growth — SRE aims to automate it away.
Example in context
"Manually restarting pods every morning is toil — we wrote an operator to self-heal, saving 30 minutes daily."
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Practice this term
Master Toil in context by working through exercises in the DevOps & Cloud module. You'll see the term used in real engineering scenarios with multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and matching drills.