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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.