Ops people know playbooks as either: A set of instructions, such as documentation defining what to do. Or, more commonly these days: Ansible "playbooks" which

Ops people know playbooks as either: A set of instructions, such as documentation defining what to do. Or, more commonly these days: Ansible "playbooks" which run a series of idempotent scripts to bring a system into a desired state. (the terminology taken from the above).