Toil is defined as manual, repetitive, automatable tasks that are devoid of enduring value and scale linearly as services grow. The document advocates automating toil through continuous delivery pipelines so that humans can focus on making decisions while automation handles routine tasks.

4. Toil Defined
So what is toil? Toil is the kind of work
tied to running a production service that
tends to be manual, repetitive,
automatable, tactical, devoid of
enduring value, and that scales linearly
as a service grows.”
Chapter 5 - Eliminating Toil

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8. “We recognize that delivering useful software shapes our world. We recognize that code is the best way to specify precise
action. We recognize that code is only useful when we deliver it.
Delivery is not a detail, it is our job. Now is the time to apply our core skills to our own work. Now is the time to engineer
our delivery. We divide our work between ourselves and computers: humans for decisions, and automation for tasks.”

15. # pipeline.yml
resources:
- name: source-code
type: git
source:
uri: https://github.com/...
branch: master
- name: source-code
type: git
source:
uri: https://github.com/...
branch: master
# pipeline.yml
jobs:
- name: unit
plan:
- get: source-code
trigger: true
- task: unit-tests
file: source-code/ci/unit.yml
# unit.yml
platform: linux
image_resource:
type: docker-image
source:
repository: java
tag: '8'
inputs:
- name: source-code
run:
path: source-code/mvnw
args: [ clean, test ]

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26. https://www.spinnaker.io/concepts/

27. =

29. https://www.spinnaker.io/reference/architecture/

35. Build and
push Docker
image
Deploy the
application
with Spinnaker
Run
acceptance
tests with
Jmeter
Rollback with
Spinnaker if
the test fails