/tɔɪl/
Manual, repetitive operational work that scales linearly with service growth — SRE aims to automate it away.
"Manually restarting pods every morning is toil — we wrote an operator to self-heal, saving 30 minutes daily."
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Manual, repetitive operational work that scales linearly with service growth — SRE aims to automate it away.
"Toil" is pronounced /tɔɪl/.
"Manually restarting pods every morning is toil — we wrote an operator to self-heal, saving 30 minutes daily."
"Toil" is filed under the DevOps & Cloud vocabulary module — click the module link above to see related terms and a matching exercise.
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