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rundeck/rundeck

Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/rundeck/rundeck · homepage · Groovy · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

94/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 84
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 33.0
  • age_days: 5843
  • days_rel: 30
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 23

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

6277 stars · 986 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Rundeck is an open-source runbook automation and orchestration service with a web console, CLI tools, and WebAPI for standardizing and scheduling operational tasks across nodes. It provides self-service access control so specific users can safely run existing scripts, tools, and workflows like Ansible playbooks.

Use cases

  • schedule and automate routine operational jobs instead of cron
  • give self-service access to run scripts and Ansible playbooks safely
  • orchestrate workflows across existing automation tools
  • automate runbooks for incident diagnostics and remediation
  • audit job execution history and log output
  • manage cloud and Kubernetes operations from one console

When to choose

  • you need a GUI and API front-end over existing scripts, Ansible, or Jenkins jobs
  • you want role-based access control for delegated operations
  • you need job scheduling, orchestration, and audit trails in one self-hosted tool

When to avoid

  • you only need simple CI/CD pipelines rather than ops runbook automation
  • you want a lightweight cron replacement without a web service
  • you require high-availability or advanced runners, which are commercial-only

Facets

service · maturity active

workflow-automation scheduling deployment webhook auth plugin-system developer-tools self-hosted infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing jvm self-hosted cross-platform runbook-automation orchestration self-service-operations job-scheduler ansible ops sre audit-logging devops automation web-server docker linux

10 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
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