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Rundeck user for 3 years
What do you like best about the product?
The visualization of complex jobs.
The nodes bank that supports labels
The nodes bank that supports labels
What do you dislike about the product?
Very hard to do argument passing between jobs (output from 1 job to be input to the 2nd job).
Very hard to understand the permissions each group have
Very hard to understand the permissions each group have
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves a complex logics with error handling, it solves a long roll-out for thousands of hosts
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very good tool
Very intuative
Very intuative
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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!
Rundeck is an easy to use tool and powerful for small businesses and large to automate Ops tasks.
What do you like best about the product?
Rundeck ease of use.
Rundeck User Interface.
Rundeck User Interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
Inline code in Rundeck can be hard to version and backup. Heavy reliance on scripts/code stored outside of Rundeck is needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating Ops tasks. Routine tasks.
Less human error. Better log analysis. History of executions/failures.
Less human error. Better log analysis. History of executions/failures.
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 orchestrating tool to automate Daily BAU tasks. Running adhocs commands on servers. Running cron Jobs. Running Infrastructure As code Jobs via rundeck, Running python scripts, Running Powershell scripts for User Creation, Running 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- operational tasks execution in just few clicks
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to manage tasks and simplified execution. Helps ops team to automate repeated tasks and enables team to focus more on product engineering
What do you dislike about the product?
User Interface could be improved for better user experience
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have several task which are repetitive in nature, Rundeck helped to automate them and execute them in under few clicks whenever needed and increased turn around time
This is Good tool for Automation
What do you like best about the product?
I liked this tool because its good for every automation thats required.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing for dislike it. as you much know automation u can do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving manager users / create new users / reset password, all management task for Active Directory.
Rundeck does the day today IT automation and Orchestration of Jobs easy!!
What do you like best about the product?
We can create Rundeck jobs and really those easy to create . And than you have so many plugins supported that makes your life easier no matter what you use , chef or salt or any other automation stack .
We extensively use salt plugins and I haven't faced any issues automating jobs .
We extensively use salt plugins and I haven't faced any issues automating jobs .
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much , but I would like to have some extensive training which I couldn't find . But I know it should be out there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do lot of automation , deploying resources in Cloud , managing Server State , running automation tasks on Domain Controller , patch management and many .
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.
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