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Tear down

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˌtɛr ˈdaʊn/phrasal verbCommon term

In software engineering, tear down means: To delete a server, environment or set of resources completely when it is no longer needed, usually with a command or script.

In Turkish: kaldırmak, silmek, ortadan kaldırmak

How it is used

The opposite of 'spin up'. The past form is 'tore down', the past participle 'torn down', and the noun is 'teardown'. With Terraform, 'terraform destroy' tears down everything in a configuration.

Example sentences

  1. The pipeline tears down the preview environment as soon as the pull request is merged.

  2. Remember to tear down the load test cluster tonight, or it will keep costing us money.

Common collocations

  • tear down an environment
  • tear down a cluster
  • spin up and tear down
  • teardown script
  • spin upTo quickly create and start a new server, container or environment, usually with a command or a few clicks.
  • provisionTo create and set up computing resources, such as servers, databases or networks, so they are ready to use.
  • infrastructure as codeManaging servers, networks and other cloud resources by writing configuration files that tools read and apply, instead of clicking through a console by hand.
  • cost optimizationReducing cloud spending without hurting performance or reliability, for example by removing unused resources, choosing the right sizes and using discounts.

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