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Rundeck Runbook Automation
Company blog · rundeck.com/blogsystemsproductivity
Rundeck Runbook Automation is the company blog at rundeck.com, writing about systems and productivity. Since 2018, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Rundeck: Enable Self-Service Operations”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rundeck's pages as a runbook automation tool for running operational scripts and tasks through a web interface, often as an open-source option. Comments link the product site rather than any blog writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Enable anyone to safely execute self-service operations tasks that previously only subject matter experts could perform.
Most-linked posts?
- Rundeck: Enable Self-Service Operations5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-06-19
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-07-05
- PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-21
What Hacker News says?
I am building https://github.com/claceio/clace . It is focussed on building operational web apps, with a focus on security. The end goal is to build something between https://www.rundeck.com/ and https://retool.com/ , allow automation of operational tasks through a web interface while also allowing fully custom web apps. Clace also works great for running simple web apps locally. Building and deploying a web app sho…
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on “The end of Airplane.dev”Submitted Rundeck: Enable Self-Service Operations as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFirst time seeing this, but reading the docs it looks more like a modern take on Rundeck[0]. A way to give developers one-click access to operational tasks. Rather than a service catalog and developer portal like Backstage. [0] https://www.rundeck.com/
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on “I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free”Submitted PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot quite distributed, but https://www.rundeck.com/open-source is pretty nifty.
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on “Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service”Submitted PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI setup Zabbix[0] on a dedicated atom server and did all of the heavy leg work once (created templates, triggers, dashboards, auto-discovery ip ranges etc). Then I sit back and build my systems as usual and they all become monitored based on the tags applied to the vm. Notification is managed by zabbix which sends email alerts, has a tie in to twilio for sms notification and there are a few third party mobile apps f…
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on “Ask HN: How do solo SaaS founders handle monitoring/PagerDuty?”Submitted Tickets Make Operations Unnecessarily Miserable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI played around with StackStorm maybe 5 years ago, but in the end I decided to use RunDeck instead. https://www.rundeck.com/ . Used that for a few years but ended up abandoning it, but am thinking about resurrecting it, it was pretty good.
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on “StackStorm: Event-driven automation”Submitted Reports of the Impending Demise of Operations Are Greatly Exaggerated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUsing Rundeck is always an option: https://www.rundeck.com/
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on “Ask HN: How do you organise and discover your team's internal scripts?”Thanks, this seems like the best answer for me, for future folks reading this, that URL has been updated to https://www.rundeck.com/open-source
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on “Ask HN: How to manage long running scripts?”https://www.rundeck.com/open-source http://www.panozzaj.com/blog/2014/05/02/replace-local-cron-w... https://github.com/jhuckaby/Cronicle https://healthchecks.io/docs/self_hosted/
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on “Ask HN: How to monitor periodic short-lived processes?”https://www.rundeck.com/open-source
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on “Recommendations for command center/dashboard to centralize scripts”