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San Francisco User Group

http://rundeck.org

Why Rundeck? A bit of history

Big in 2010

Why Rundeck? A bit of history

Apr 2010

Why Rundeck? A bit of history

Broke process into reusable workflows

Why Rundeck? A bit of history

“the future rundeck”

Node info via Rightscale API

SSH

Why Rundeck?

Development Testing Ops

Relative time given to each project phase (YMMV)

Ops requests are interrupt driven and usually at the last moment in the project life cycle

Why Rundeck?

“Do this, then that” handoff methods don’t scale

README-------------

• “Do step 1”• “Do step 2”

• Goto README#2

and/or Tasks.xls

“Do this, then that”

and/or

Why Rundeck?

Scripts

Build tools

Package

IaaS

Cfg MgtRemote execDBsRepos

LoggingNotification

“Islands” of disconnected tools

Why Rundeck?

Scripts

Build tools

Package

IaaS

Cfg MgtRemote execDBsRepos

LoggingNotification

“Islands” across business units

Scripts

Build tools

Package

IaaS

Cfg MgtRemote execDBsRepos

LoggingNotification

Scripts

Build tools

Package

IaaS

Cfg MgtRemote execDBsRepos

LoggingNotification

Scripts

Build tools

Package

IaaS

Cfg MgtRemote execDBsRepos

LoggingNotification

Why Rundeck?

Project vision● Central service for visibility of operations tasks● “Jobs” for easy hand offs between teams and users● Create interfaces between disparate tools and

resources● Give managers auditing, access control, logging● APIs to create and share reusable “Ops services”

New idea: “Operations as a Service”

What is Rundeck?

● A Server for people that want to create reusable task automation○ Enable operations teams to be service providers○ Increase visibility and trust between teams○ Lower “mean-time to button” and a friendly end

user experience

● An open source software project at GitHub (Apache 2.0 license)

Use: Standard operating procedures

Safely share code, not error prone “this, then that” information

“NOC” user

App devs

PagerDuty incident

Use: 0-click deploy in testEnable continuous delivery for QA

Jenkins, Bamboo, Go

Nexus,Artifactory,Yum, apt

Email, Webhook,Hipchat, PagerDuty

Puppet, Chef, CFEngine,Saltstack

Use: Data processing on AWSAutomate server provisioning and data processing work

Use: VMWare test environments

Self serve provisioning of version and/or branch specific environments for testers

QA tester

Use: “Powered-by” Rundeck

● Past “tool developers” now create automation SaaS for internal users.

● API only. Users never see Rundeck GUI.○ Examples:

■ Fidelity: “click-to-compute”■ Adobe: “CDOT”■ Major bank: firmwide depl.■ Salesforce■ UShareSoft: Transcend■ Axemblr: Provisionr

Demo

Demo - Takeaways

● Job data context: Nodes and Options● Role specific access● Error-handling workflows● Plugins: logstash, hipchat, pagerduty, aws,

puppet, salt, chef, winrm, jenkins, nexus

How do you use Rundeck?

● Make jobs from multi-step workflows.● Execute tasks on nodes using your favorite

command, tool, transport and agent.● Define reusable environment independent

procedures.● Limit user access using ACL policies.

Who does what?

● Admins stand up Rundeck service● Anybody can write and run jobs● Devs create plugins ● Ops runs standard operating procedures

This is a gross generalization

System view

● Deploy standalone or as webapp● Packages: launcher, RPM/DEB, WAR● Authentication: LDAP/AD, PAM, file● Database: H2, Mysql, Oracle● Plugins: Java or shell script

Roadmap: Vote on the trello board

● Work in progress for v2.0 ○ Software stack: New grails, Java, Jetty, Bootstrap,...○ Codahale metrics library (/metrics)○ Job libraries and project SCM support○ GUI: More user friendly job follow page○ API: Endpoints for rundeck administration, ++○ Github org change: /dtolabs > /rundeck○ New logos!

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How to get involved

● Participate on the mail list● IRC: #rundeck on freenode● Twitter: @rundeck● Talk about your uses and successes● Write a plugin!● Submit a pull request

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