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Overall good product
What do you like best about the product?
The most useful part of Rundeck is that it is user-friendly enough that somewhat non-technical users are able to create and adminster their own scheduled jobs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was a way to see an overview of scheduled jobs, perhaps a calendar view that displays the upcoming jobs. There are times when I would like to perform server maintenance, but it's difficult to determine when the next window of non-scheduled jobs would occur.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before implementing Rundeck, users were logging directly into the server and creating their own cron jobs. This began to cause maintenance (not to mention security) issues. By providing a relatively simple web application to allow running jobs, it has simplified my life as an administrator.
Rundeck Description
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of installation and integration using the nodes.
What do you dislike about the product?
On their site, some documentation is outdated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Execution of Jobs and scripts
Speeding up automation and tests
What do you like best about the product?
The best about Rundeck is its integrations with Ansible and other tools using webhooks. Also, it is very easy to deploy. In a few minutes, you have a full operational Rundeck up and running.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't see downsides on Rundeck. It fits my needs and solves a lot of problems I had. Maybe the need of adding ssh keys to log into servers, but this is not a very big problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are automating configuration tests. One of the things we are doing is to ensure that all of DNS servers are up to date and syncronized.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't lose time! Try Rundeck now!
Great tool for task automation
What do you like best about the product?
Rundeck helped us get out of the pain of managing tons of jobs in crontabs across multiple servers. It is easy to integrate into our other tools such as Slack and Victorops.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of any issues at the moment. The biggest issues we had have been resolved in recent releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Makes it much easier to know what is running, on what server, and keep track of task success.
Quick to install and setup the process using Rundeck
What do you like best about the product?
It helped our team in quick setup and standup of environment and process
What do you dislike about the product?
none, our teams were able to quickly get things in place for the setup
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our devops process was not working as desired , with Rundeck we were able to quickly get the process in place and stand up the system
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have the process in place for Devops before reaching out to Rundeck
Rundeck has replaced mostly crontab jobs in important areas
What do you like best about the product?
Rundeck collects logs from all tasks and informs me in case of problems with their execution - this is crucial in the case of archiving tasks
What do you dislike about the product?
I miss simple instructions on how to comprehend WinRM, file copying and debugging
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rundeck will allow you to perform tasks reliably, thanks to which I spend less time analyzing and browsing logs.
The best automatisation tool ever
What do you like best about the product?
easy to use and to configure , easy to re-use
What do you dislike about the product?
i feel that's the cluster version is not that's great (there's lot of bugs)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
to automate treatments
Recommendations to others considering the product:
use it !! it's one of the best automatisation system ever
An ideal complement for TOS
What do you like best about the product?
When I started working with TOS (Talend Open Stuido), I always found the difficulty of making the scheduled execution of my work very tedious, since it required multiple Cron on my Jobs server, with RUNDECK I found my ideal complement to be able to launch my works with very few clicks, and with 100% effective reliability.
What do you dislike about the product?
When working with TOS, you get used to drag and drop the different components, in RUNDECK I find it would be great in the Workflow to have a similar look with icons for the jobs and to be able to unite them by drag and drop, in addition to being able to put Boolean logic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All the automation and synchronization of databases, which is done through TOS, RUNDECK helps us to carry out the programming in time, in an efficient way.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If I worked with TOS RUNDECK is your Scheduler
Great core, but rough around the edges
What do you like best about the product?
Installing scheduled tasks in Rundeck, rather than individual servers, helps to centralize operations. Being able to develop forms to handle common IT tasks cuts down on our support volume - considerably, in some cases - and additionally provides an audit log. In all, it enables a greater level of transparency and access, and I'm a huge fan of the "IT self-service panel" concept.
What do you dislike about the product?
Rundeck's ACL system is powerful and granular but needlessly complex. It should be possible to assign or edit permissions using a graphical interface. There is currently no way to automatically clean out old job runs, so you either cobble something together yourself or let runs perpetually accumulate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I originally deployed Rundeck for use with my Ansible playbooks. At the time, Ansible Tower was a proprietary product without an open source equivalent. Over time, I found additional uses for it. For instance, I created a Project that lets our customer support agents add phone numbers to the phone system's blacklist without going through me.
After Red Hat acquired Ansible, it released AWX, an open source upstream for Ansible Tower, which I've begun using in place of Rundeck. AWX features deeper integration with Ansible playbooks, and the interface is, on the whole, a bit cleaner. There aren't quite so many options that I'll never use as there are with Rundeck. AWX is also written in Python, which I much prefer to Rundeck, which uses Java.
For me, AWX improves on Rundeck's annoyances enough that I plan to phase Rundeck out. However, for those who don't rely on Ansible so heavily, Rundeck is still a good product. There's nothing else quite like it - capable of running quite a lot, commercially sponsored, and open source.
But is it my first pick when given the choice of more specialized alternatives? No.
After Red Hat acquired Ansible, it released AWX, an open source upstream for Ansible Tower, which I've begun using in place of Rundeck. AWX features deeper integration with Ansible playbooks, and the interface is, on the whole, a bit cleaner. There aren't quite so many options that I'll never use as there are with Rundeck. AWX is also written in Python, which I much prefer to Rundeck, which uses Java.
For me, AWX improves on Rundeck's annoyances enough that I plan to phase Rundeck out. However, for those who don't rely on Ansible so heavily, Rundeck is still a good product. There's nothing else quite like it - capable of running quite a lot, commercially sponsored, and open source.
But is it my first pick when given the choice of more specialized alternatives? No.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're trying to use Rundeck for a specific purpose, see if there's a purpose-built tool that you can use. Rundeck is a good general-purpose tool, but it may not be the best for very specific use cases.
Solves our tracking of scheduled tasks problem
What do you like best about the product?
I am able to build complex, or simple scheduled tasks that run and alert me when failed. I can then go back and view the point of failure and correct the problem when it fails.
What do you dislike about the product?
Had to custom build a module to work with http based tasks
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scheduled task running. Automated reports, etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try, it is well worth it!
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