Workload

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A Workload is a deployable or operational computing subject that performs an application, service, processing, platform, or data function.

A Workload may include:

• Executable software
• Runtime configuration
• Processing logic
• Data
• Dependencies
• Network endpoints
• Storage relationships
• Identity and access configuration
• Resource requirements
• Operational metadata

A Workload may operate through:

• A Virtual Machine
• A container
• A group of containers
• A physical computing resource
• A serverless execution environment
• A distributed computing platform

A Workload differs from an Image:

• An Image is an Artifact used to instantiate a computing subject
• A Workload is the deployable or operational subject that performs a computing function

A Workload may be instantiated from one or more Images.

deployable or operational computing subject that performs an application, service, processing, platform, or data function

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A Workload differs from a Measurement Workload:

• A Workload is the deployable or operational computing subject
• A Measurement Workload is the set of operations presented to a Workload or another measured entity during measurement

A Workload may be:

• Stateful
• Stateless
• Persistent
• Temporary
• Centralized
• Distributed
• Interactive
• Batch-oriented
• Event-driven

The term does not prescribe a particular runtime, orchestration platform, operating system, execution model, provider, or implementation technology.

A transaction-processing service and its runtime configuration form a Workload deployed to an Infrastructure Environment.