Runbook
A runbook is an operations manual documenting procedures for common tasks: deployment, scaling, failure recovery, backups, and more.
Purpose
Standardize operations, reducing human error and knowledge silos.
Mechanism
Each operation records preconditions, steps, verification, and rollback. Can be automated (executable runbooks). On-call engineers follow runbooks when handling alerts. Updated as systems evolve.
Use cases
- Operations standardization
- On-call support
- Knowledge transfer