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Rundeck makes repetition painless
What do you like best about the product?
I'm a big fan of the operations-as-a-service model, and Rundeck is a great front-end, scheduling engine, and driver for that. It's great to be able to give people a button!
What do you dislike about the product?
More of a warning than a dislike: it can take a lot of preparedness and environmental knowledge to properly prepare a Rundeck host. In an environment that has a lot of variation between hosts/networks/datacenters/etc the special-casing required can become difficult. It pays off to make sure targets are properly baselined, there's a centralized authorization mechanism in place, and things of that nature.
Plan ahead, understand what you're deploying, and it isn't an issue.
Plan ahead, understand what you're deploying, and it isn't an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've used Rundeck for everything: backups, deployment automation, virtual machine deployment, container creation, therapeutic weekly restarts, sql queries, the list goes on and on. If you can do it from a command line, you can do it in Rundeck.
Being able to give people on other teams a button to use instead of repeatedly asking for an Operations activity is worth its weight in gold. Bonus points for being able to hit that button with APIs as well as the web GUI.
Being able to give people on other teams a button to use instead of repeatedly asking for an Operations activity is worth its weight in gold. Bonus points for being able to hit that button with APIs as well as the web GUI.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's ok to take your time to carefully plan out your Rundeck installation. It makes things easier later!
We use it for everything!
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to automate tasks and hand them off to other teams
What do you dislike about the product?
Could do a little work on their AWS setup documentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We automate tasks and put guard rails around them to be able to let out users self serve.
Putting drop downs in place of typing command line options reduces fat fingering mistakes.
Being able to see our full schedule of jobs and being able to reschedule on the fly.
Putting drop downs in place of typing command line options reduces fat fingering mistakes.
Being able to see our full schedule of jobs and being able to reschedule on the fly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great product. You'll do everything with it once you get it working in your system.
Rundeck Enterprise Review
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of Automation, Super friendly UI and hundreds of Plugins. Easy to deploy,
What do you dislike about the product?
Default authentication mechanism for servers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using it as an orchestrating tool to automate daily Business As Usual (BAU) tasks. Run ad-hoc commands on servers. Run cron jobs. Run Infrastructure as Code jobs via Rundeck. Run Python scripts. Run PowerShell scripts for user creation. Run PowerShell scripts for creating A and C records in Active Directory.
Rundeck glues my tools together with a simple user-friendly UI
What do you like best about the product?
I use rundeck to pull together my disparate tools and systems using pretty much whatever scripting language I want, across platforms. It integrates with many of my tools and can often be used as a way of allowing us to grant additional permissions to users that they wouldn't have otherwise in a controlled fashion, allowing us to self-service things that we previously had trouble controlling. Plus, just about every facet of the tool is pluggable so we can easily implement our own plugins to extend the tool to do things it can't out of the box. The user interface is simple and intuitive for users, and the RBAC is strong enough for us to grant permissions to users safely and securely.
Users can bring their own scripts, which allows them to reuse existing automation to make the most of their work they've completed already.
Users can bring their own scripts, which allows them to reuse existing automation to make the most of their work they've completed already.
What do you dislike about the product?
The SCM integration is a bit weird and defining jobs in code, as opposed to the UI, isn't something that's quite as easy as, say, bolt or ansible since the jobs are self-contained and can't be broken out across a project. Also due to jobs being self-contained, the SCM integration happens at the project level, with all users in a project sharing a single git branch, which is really annoying for collaboration.
Users can also bring their own scripts, which allows them to bring along all of their accumulated technical debt and build on it.
Users can also bring their own scripts, which allows them to bring along all of their accumulated technical debt and build on it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've migrated off of legacy tooling with rundeck and implemented self-service functionality for a myriad of functions we didn't have available to us prior to introducing the tool into our environment.
Rundeck is a force multiplier for our organization
What do you like best about the product?
Rundeck provides us with the means to safely delegate certain tasks to other teams. It allows us to grant less-privileged users the ability to perform mundane tasks for themselves, which frees up my team for more valuable work. It has changed the way our Operations team functions.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd love to see a more powerful scheduler. There are certain scheduling problems that we can't overcome by just using quartz cron, so instead we end up making multiple copies of the same job.
I'd also like to see more features targeting Windows users.
I'd also like to see more features targeting Windows users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Rundeck to automate complex tasks that span across multiple machines in multiple data centers. We use it anywhere from enforcing access controls to removing junk files on our VMs-- all with an audit trail. Having a centralized job scheduler is a very nice touch as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try out the open source version and see how it goes. Chances are, you'll find that it solves more than the use case that led you to it in the first place.
Fantastic Automation Tool for IT Operations 1
What do you like best about the product?
I love that the tool is so versatile and extensible. We are able to manage every type of end point (Windows, Linux, Appliances, Workstations, etc.) - The tool is agentless which is a huge bonus for us because managing agents sucks.
We have used this to extend functionality into other environments by creating our own plug-ins which are easy to do. We have integrated it with Cherwell, Infoblox, QRadar, you name it!
We have used this to extend functionality into other environments by creating our own plug-ins which are easy to do. We have integrated it with Cherwell, Infoblox, QRadar, you name it!
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like to see more integrations with big vendors like CyberArk and also more options for SSO Single Sign On (LDAP/AD) - Certificate based authentication. The product continues to evolve so I am sure it won't be long before all of this functionality exists.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it manage high volume manual tasks like temporary administrator access grants to thousands of workstations all over the state. We use it to manage populate our CMDB hourly as our end points change and move around. We have also integrated it with our monitoring platform SCOM so that we have a more robust recover solution from alerting that comes from SCOM. This has helped us mature our server provisioning and decommissioning process. The list of things we have done with this is a mile long in a little over 12 months.
Rundeck - ETL Workflows
What do you like best about the product?
Rundeck is very good for automating and scheduling workflows. I use it for running ETL and now we cannot imagine running ETL workflows without rundeck
What do you dislike about the product?
Upgrading WAR installation in Rundeck causing problems
Migrating jobs from one cluster to another
Migrating jobs from one cluster to another
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
creating and monitoring ETL flows
Very powerful community edition
What do you like best about the product?
- Supports ansible out of the box
- Advanced security model
- Advanced security model
What do you dislike about the product?
No ability to connect remote ansible host
There are some extra steps to make the domain name work
There are some extra steps to make the domain name work
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CI/CD automation
Automation maintenance tasks
Automation maintenance tasks
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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Very Good Tool for job schedulers
What do you like best about the product?
Task scheduling activity and i like more on ansible plugins .
What do you dislike about the product?
Need more plugin configuation like to connect with other tools directly like K8S on cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continous Deployment ..we are able to solve the problem
Lots of potential
What do you like best about the product?
We have only manage some testing but I think it offers a lot of potential for providing users with access to systems while avoiding the usual complications of having to provide admin access to everyone.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI could be more friendly and mor evisually appealing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have looked at providing access to Ansible runs for self-service infrastructure and to othe radmin-level operations for similar reasons.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Well worth a look if you have users needing access to automation and admin functions, and who doesn't.
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