PLB · Components & Ops

Playbooks

The step-by-step procedures that make operations repeatable under pressure.

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Region failover procedure

Confirm the trigger

Verify region health alarms across two independent signals before acting.

Drain traffic

Shift the global load balancer to the standby region; watch error rates.

Promote data tier

Promote the standby Postgres replica and confirm write availability.

Validate & communicate

Run smoke checks, update the status page, and notify stakeholders.

What it is

A playbook is the ordered, battle-tested procedure for a recurring operation — a region failover, a key rotation, an incident response. When it’s 3am and something is on fire, nobody should be improvising; the playbook is the calm, numbered path back to green.

Numbered steps

An unambiguous sequence with owners and checkpoints, not a wall of prose.

Linked to standards

Playbooks operationalize the standards they enforce, keeping policy and practice together.

Always findable

Searchable by trigger, so the right procedure surfaces the moment it’s needed.