SRE

What is Toil?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Toil is the kind of work that tends to be manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, devoid of enduring value, and that scales linearly as a service grows.

If you can be automate a task, you should probably automate the task.

Automation significantly reduces Toil. Investing in automation results in valuable work with lasting impact, offering scalability potential with minimal adjustments as your system expands.

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