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playbook

playbook

2 5.6
A script that runs tasks to set up and manage computer systems
  • noun
  • /ˈpleɪbʊk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : playbook
  • The IT team used the playbook to automate the deployment of new servers.

Examples

  • Each developer contributed to the playbook that outlines the best practices for system management.

  • He carefully followed the playbook to configure the software correctly.

  • Running off a new playbook now.

    American Sniper (2014)

  • Is everybody using the new playbook?

    Blog text (22)

  • In creating a CDO, San Francisco is running a play from the open data playbooks of Chicago and Philadelphia.

    Blog text (33)

  • The GOP certainly can't afford to seem that it's not acting in good faith right now—that it's calling plays from Mitch McConnell's playbook where the point is not to help the country but to try to get the President to fail for the partisan benefit of the Republican Party.

    Blog text (22)

Synonyms

script
vsplaybook
  • Specialized
70 3.6

A short computer program that automates simple tasks

is focused on system configuration deployment and management rather than general tasks
cookbook
vsplaybook
  • Specialized
1 4.3

A set of instructions and files that make it easier to install and set up software on computers or servers

is a single file used to define a sequence of automated tasks

Compounds

negotiation playbook
  • Jargon
4.7

A plan of ways to guide business talks and reach agreement

How Automated

automation
  • Specialized
33 3.3
playbook
  • Specialized
2 5.6
script
  • Specialized
70 3.6
manual
101 3.8

Surface Forms

playbook singular
playbooks plural

Morphology

playbook = play + book (semi-transparent) = play + book

Technical extension: components indicate a collection of procedures, but the computing/devops meaning (playbook as executable scripts or configuration procedures) is domain-specific.

Etymology

Playbook in computing is a modern twist on the same idea: play ('a planned move') and book ('a collection') become a list of steps or a 'recipe' a computer follows to do tasks automatically, so an IT playbook tells the system what to do.