My intro to Rundeck slide stack from the November 2012 Boudler DevOps Meetup.

1. Introduction to RunDeck
November 2012 Boulder DevOps Meetup
Will Sterling
DevOps Engineer @ Datalogix
will.sterling@datalogix.com

2. What is Rundeck?
! Command Orchestration
! Process Automation
! Web-UI
! REST API
! CLI
! Nodes dynamically added and removed
! Target nodes using rich metadata instead of
hostnames!
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3. Rundeck
! Command Orchestration
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4. Rundeck
! Command Orchestration
– output
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5. Rundeck
! Command Orchestration
– history
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6. Rundeck
! Projects
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7. Rundeck
! Process Automation
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8. Rundeck
! REST API
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9. Rundeck
! CLI
– dispatch
Execute ad hoc commands and scripts
– rd-queue
Query the dispatcher for currently running Jobs and possibly kill them
– rd-jobs
List defined jobs as well as load them from text file definitions
– run
Invoke the execution of a stored Job
– rd-project
Setup a new Rundeck project
– rd-setup
(Re-)configure an instance of Rundeck
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10. Rundeck
! Node Selection (filter)
– Hostname(s)
– Hostname Regular Expression
– OS, Version, Arch
– Tags
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11. Rundeck
! Filters
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12. Rundeck
! Node Definition (Resource Model)
– Static
• YAML File
– Dynamic
• URL
• Script
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13. Rundeck
! Resource Model example
Venkman.local:
description: Rundeck server node
hostname: Venkman.local
nodename: Venkman.local
osArch: x86_64
osFamily: unix
osName: Mac OS X
osVersion: 10.6.6
tags: ‘rundeck’
username: greg
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14. Rundeck
! Data Store Backend
– HSQLDB - default
• JAVA based RDBMS, stores data locally in script
– Any RDBMS with JDBC
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15. Rundeck
! Installation – RHEL
– Install Rundeck Repository
• rpm –I http://rundeck.org/latest.rpm
– Install Rundeck RPM
• yum install rundeck
– Enable & start service
• chkconfig rundeckd on;service rundeckd start
– Log in
• http://hostname:4440
– User: admin
– Password: admin
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16. Rundeck
! Configuration Artifacts of Interest
– /etc/rundeck
– /var/lib/rundeck/data
– /var/rundeck/projects/projectname
– /var/log/rundeck/
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17. Rundeck
! Resources
– Project Home
http://rundeck.org/index.html
– Screen Casts & Tutorials
http://rundeck.org/about.html
– Documentation
http://rundeck.org/docs/index.html
– Mailing List
http://groups.google.com/group/rundeck-discuss
– Me
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