What is runbook automation? A quick guide
Jan 20, 2022
–Madhura Kumar
When you take a step back from the buzz of activities we generalize as work,
you'll notice event patterns—repetitive processes. We can document most of these
events and processes into easy-to-run steps in runbooks. Runbooks help make sure
tasks are performed at the same level of accuracy and yield predictable and
desired results. While runbooks tend to live in Google Docs or wiki pages,
runbook automation is the process of using software to execute these more
reliably, quickly, and autonomously
Changelog 1/14/22: Favorites, deploy with git, and execute rules
You're now able to add tasks, runbooks, and folders to your favorites, deploy Airplane tasks automatically as you push code, and configure execution rules for tasks and runbooks. Read more
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