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Rundeck is very good for operations
What do you like best about the product?
Especially Plugins which really really helpful for configuration management and daily operations
What do you dislike about the product?
Not supporting for Cloud deployments and also limited plugins availability for cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Daily operations like deployments etc.
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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.
Promising, but frustrating
What do you like best about the product?
The general idea. The promise of workflow automation and decentralising/removing of silos. The ability to write java plugins to do specific things like custom steps and notifications is very useful. Adhoc executions and the somewhat generalised job options UI (with cascading options values) is very useful, but could be improved.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's slow both in the UI and in the server, and overall frustratingly buggy. Rundeck team recently closed all outstanding issues on GitHub irrespective as to whether or not they have been fixed (mostly not), suggesting upgrading to the latest version. However, every upgrade is a roller coaster of regressions and new frustrating problems, undocumented mandatory upgrade steps.
On the feature side, the lack of conditional statements for steps is frustrating (the Pro feature for this is IMO unusably complex and a massive maintenance trap), and the ability to store and use data generated by steps is frustratingly limited. Complex workflows need powerful tools, and rundeck struggles with complex workflows, workflow recovery and accurately reporting the reason for failures.
On the feature side, the lack of conditional statements for steps is frustrating (the Pro feature for this is IMO unusably complex and a massive maintenance trap), and the ability to store and use data generated by steps is frustratingly limited. Complex workflows need powerful tools, and rundeck struggles with complex workflows, workflow recovery and accurately reporting the reason for failures.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use rundeck to orchestrate deployment of huge proprietary financial trading software, from development systems through to (increasingly) production. Though of course, most of the complexity is in the scripts/tools themselves, and we have had to build UI and infrastructure around rundeck to make this feasible.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have complex workflows, it might not be for you. For relatively simple stuff and with lower-skilled teams creating jobs from a UI - it's probably a good fit. Rundeck can be powerful and it can present a simple UI to a complex problem. You can very quickly get it to do tasks in a fairly intuitive way, but when it gets complex, it becomes unintuitive and difficult.
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
Easy automation!
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to deploy, configure and use this within Linux. Overall, the time to get up and running and executing the first job against a set of Linux servers was almost no time. We were able to start running script and automating the more simple tasks on Day 1 while we started working on the larger, more complex projects.
The support team, as well as the implementation teams are both wonderful. Our rep was always available and eager to assist us rapidly deploy. The few times I have had to reach out to the support team, they have been responsive and helpful.
The support team, as well as the implementation teams are both wonderful. Our rep was always available and eager to assist us rapidly deploy. The few times I have had to reach out to the support team, they have been responsive and helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup for running against Windows hosts (using a Linux install of Rundeck) was somewhat complicated. The online help also tends to be less helpful than I need to resolve an issue. Which has led to us having to rely on the support team more often, who again, has been wonderful.
The security, for someone who is very used to the role/group system, seems overly complicated, and cumbersome to implement, although very secure once complete.
The security, for someone who is very used to the role/group system, seems overly complicated, and cumbersome to implement, although very secure once complete.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation of the same task against multiple hosts. Just the ability to run a single command against the entire set of servers in seconds is outstanding.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I'd say to go for it!
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:
N/A
Automation with Ease, Control, and Security
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to take customized and sometimes complex automation needs and put them within a UI that a semi-technical end user/customer can utilize. It gives you the ability to control what gets run, by whom, and how. Additionally, it gives you the ability to control access and audit who did what and when.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is difficult to build and use a clustered HA solution after you have already started utilizing the product in a non-clustered environment: a migration is essentially an entirely new implementation. Also keep in mind, Rundeck is a UI for automation, but it does not provide all of that custom automation. Your teams need to build the underlying scripts, make them efficient, and build the UI within Rundeck complete with editable fields, user access control, logging, and auditing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Filling gaps in our custom product for internal reporting, and safe/secure DML/DDL automation in parallel with code deployments.
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
Works well, but had cavets with Python scripts
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive, clean interface, highly customizable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Recurring issues with locally executed python scripts that kept running in the background
even after the rundeck job was killed, causing multiple runs to happen concurrently.
even after the rundeck job was killed, causing multiple runs to happen concurrently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm no longer using rundeck due to the issue I mentioned previously, we have migrated to Jenkins.
Good but flawed
What do you like best about the product?
Once setup allows for some pretty cool uses. We use it for patching our systems across multiple clouds all from a button press.
What do you dislike about the product?
Stringing together jobs is really tedious. It is not straightforward for sending output from one job to another. It is much easier to write that logic into a script.
I also wish that rundeck supported branching logic, versus a singular flow.
I also wish that rundeck supported branching logic, versus a singular flow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to patch systems, and run specific commands (such as rescuing a system that loses ldap connectivity)
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