Deployment Runbook Phrasal Verbs
5 exercises — deployment runbooks are written in concise, precise language. Each phrasal verb in a runbook step has a specific technical meaning that cannot be replaced with a generic synonym.
Runbook phrasal verbs covered
- spin up an environment — launch new cloud resources from scratch
- roll back to a version — revert to a previous stable deployment
- cut over to new infrastructure — make the final irreversible switch
- tear down an environment — permanently destroy all provisioned resources
- hand off responsibility — formally transfer ownership to another team/person
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Deployment runbook — Step 2:
Which phrasal verb belongs in this step?
"___ a staging environment ineu-west-1using theterraform/stagingmodule. Wait for all health checks to pass before proceeding."
Which phrasal verb belongs in this step?
"Spin up" is the standard DevOps phrasal verb for launching a new cloud environment, VM, container, or service instance. It implies bringing something into an active, running state from nothing. Usage: "spin up a container", "spin up an EC2 instance", "spin up a new cluster", "how long does it take to spin up?". You will see it in Terraform modules, Kubernetes manifests, CI/CD pipeline docs, and runbooks. "Start up" is intelligible but less idiomatic in cloud/infrastructure context (used more for applications or physical machines). "Build up" is wrong — it means to increase gradually, not to initialise. The opposite of "spin up" is "spin down" (stop/deallocate) or "tear down" (destroy completely).
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