Rundeck

Joel R. Moya Lupe

Quality Engineer

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What is Rundeck?

Rundeck is a software that helps you automate routine operational in data center or cloud environments.

A Server for people that want to create reusable task automation

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What is Rundeck?

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

Teams can collaborate to share how processes are automated while others are given trust to view operational activity or execute tasks.

New idea: “Operations as a Service”

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Essential Concepts

Projects:

A project is a place to separate

management activity. All Rundeck

activities occur within the context of a

project.

Jobs:

A Job is a configuration representing

input options. A job encapsulate a

sequence of steps, job options and

nodes where the steps execute.

Essential Concepts

Nodes:

A node is a resource that is either a

physical or virtual instance of a

network accessible host. A resource

model is a representation of Nodes in

a project.

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Commands:

A command is a single executable

string executed on a Node.

Rundeck invokes commands on

nodes via a node executor.

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Executions:

An execution is a

representation of the activity

of a running or completed

command or job.

Essential Concepts

Role-based Access Control Policies:

A Rundeck access control

policy grants users and user groups

certain privileges to perform actions

against Rundeck.

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Plugins:

Most of what Rundeck does is via one of its plugins. Plugins

exist to execute commands on nodes, perform steps in a

job, send a notification about job status, gather information

about the hosts in your network, etc.

Essential Concepts

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Essential Concepts

Users

Rundeck has three basic ways of defining authentication.

• PropertyFileLoginModule

It allows to manage user credentials for Rundeck using a text

file, which containing usernames, passwords and role

definitions. Usually this file is called realm.properties.

• LDAP

Through JAAS login module you can use for LDAP directory

authentication

• PAM

This module can work with existing properties-file based

authorization roles by enabling shared credentials between the

modules.

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Rundeck architecture RunDeck stores job definitions and execution history in a relational

database. Output from command and job executions is saved on

disk.

Jenkins - Rundeck

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"Rundeck is made for Operations and knows

about the details of your environments.“

Jenkins is a development

tool, designed for

automating software builds.

Rundeck is an operations

tool, designed for executing

operations tasks.

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Real use case Technologies: Java, Tomcat, Maven

CI server: Jenkins

Code repository: Subversion

Artifacts manager: Nexus

Install

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Windows:

java -jar rundeck-launcher-2.1.2.jar

Linux

CENTOS

Yum RPM Install

rpm -Uvh http://repo.rundeck.org/latest.rpm

yum install rundeck

service rundeckd start

Install

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UBUNTU

http://dl.bintray.com/rundeck/rundeck-deb

/rundeck-2.3.2-1-GA.deb

dpkg -i rundeck-2.3.2-1-GA.deb

Modify configuration files

sudo nano rundeck-config.properties

# change hostname here grails.serverURL=http://172.20.200.XX:4440

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Login

The default port for the

web interface is 4440. If

you installed Rundeck on

your local machine, go to

this

URL: http://localhost:4440

Rundeck requires every

user to login. The default

installation defines an

"admin" user with access

to perform all actions. Use

"admin" for username and

password.

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Laboratory

Open document of laboratory

TZ2014_Workshop_Rundeck.docx

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Laboratory

What do you expect to learn from this Lab?

− Installation

−Manage configuration files

−Create Projects

−Add nodes

−Manage users

−Create and run Jobs

−Execute ad hoc commands

− Integrate with Jenkins

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Laboratory

Requirements

−Basic knowledge about Linux and Shell commands

−Basic knowledge about Jenkins and Continuous

Integration

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Laboratory

Tools that will be used in the lab

− Putty

−Browser (Mozilla Firefox or Chrome)

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Laboratory

Environment

Browser

Putty

172.20.200.XX

172.20.200.68

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Q&A

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