What is a Service?

Where it sits

YAMO's vocabulary is a ladder: a Playbook is the method, a Play is one step inside it, a Service is what other people run, an Instance is one customer's ongoing context against a Service, and a Run is one execution. A Connector is a tool a Playbook declares it needs, and a Connection is the access that satisfies it. A Reference file is a document a Playbook reads while it works.

Service is one rung of that ladder. The rung next to it is Instance.

Why the word matters

One word for one thing. A Service is not created by publishing it: it exists from the moment its definition is created, as a Draft Service, and Deploy and Publish move that same object onward without creating anything.

The longer answer

What is a Service? is the page for this one: where it sits, what it is confused with, and a worked example from a real template.