Rundeck

Rundeck is runbook automation that gives you and your colleagues self-service access to the processes and tools they need to get their job done.

Installation

Ubuntu or Debian disto

Community version

Java

Warning

Rundeck depends on Java 11 or Java 8. The Java 14 packages will satisfy this dependency however Rundeck will not function properly with them. It is recommended to install the openjdk-11-jre-headless package manually.

sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jre-headless

Quick installation

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rundeck/packaging/main/scripts/deb-setup.sh 2> /dev/null | sudo bash -s rundeck

Manual installation

Bring signed keys :

curl -L https://packages.rundeck.com/pagerduty/rundeck/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -

Create new sources list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rundeck.list :

deb https://packages.rundeck.com/pagerduty/rundeck/any/ any main
deb-src https://packages.rundeck.com/pagerduty/rundeck/any/ any main

Now, lets install

Download package if relavant from the download page

sudo apt update
sudo apt install rundeck

Post Installation

URL ?

Change the URL into the /etc/rundeck directory
> might be run as root

Replace the 10..x by your iP

sed -i 's/localhost/10..x/g' rundeck-config.properties framework.properties

Service

Enable the rundeckd service

sudo systemctl enable rundeckd

Start the rundeckd service

sudo systemctl start rundeckd

To verify that the service started correctly, tail the logs:

tail -f /var/log/rundeck/service.log

Copied!

The service is ready once you see something similar to:

Grails application running at http://localhost:4440 in environment: production

Yes there is locahost in the log I know ...

Logging in for the first time

1. Navigate to http://10..x:4440/ (open new window) in a browser.
2. Log in with the username admin and password admin

Rundeck is now up and running !