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 Playbooks are stored in the `playbooks` directory. Note that playbooks can be
 organized in this way, but the [*_vars directries must be relative to either
 the inventory or playbook
-files](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/12862#issuecomment-461015045).
+files](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/12862#issuecomment-461015045),
+and any `files` directories must be relative to the root directory or
+`playbooks`.
 
-Inventory files or sources are stored in the `inventory` directory.
+The convention for naming of playbooks is to name them
+`<purpose>-playbook.yml`.
+
+Inventory sources are stored in the `inventory` directory.
 
 A typical invocation would be:
 
     $ ansible-playbook -i inventory/<source>.ini playbooks/static-playbook.yml
 
+
 Starting a New Role
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/playbooks/aethercompute-playbook.yml b/playbooks/aethercompute-playbook.yml
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Ansible playbook to configure aether compute nodes
+
+- name: Configure aether compute nodes
+  hosts: aethercompute
+  become: true
+  roles:
+    - users
+    - docker
diff --git a/playbooks/jenkins-playbook.yml b/playbooks/jenkins-playbook.yml
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+# Ansible playbook to configure jenkins
+
+- name: Configure jenkins
+  hosts: jenkins
+  become: true
+  roles:
+    - users