# rundeck/rundeck

Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts

Repository: https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rundeck
Homepage: http://rundeck.org
Language: Groovy
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: rundeck, devops, deployment, scheduler, automation, orchestration, ansible, audit, sre, operations, ops, devops-tools, devops-team, runbook, hacktoberfest, java, category-distributed
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:23:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 84, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5843, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 30, "gap_med": 33.0, "n_releases_24m": 23}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6277, forks 986 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:41.228156+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: workflow-automation, scheduling, deployment, webhook, auth, plugin-system, developer-tools
- domain: self-hosted, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-computing
- platform: jvm, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: runbook-automation, orchestration, self-service-operations, job-scheduler, ansible, ops, sre, audit-logging, devops, automation, web-server, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- rundeck/rundeck (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.228156+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:46:28.473638+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.228156+00:00, sha abf779cda12c)
  - homepage: http://rundeck.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:14.377256+00:00, sha 002e476d73ce)
  - site_page: https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/learning/howto/using-ansible.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:14.389623+00:00, sha ce78a940b7d5)
  - site_page: https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/history/6_x/version-6.1.0.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:14.380281+00:00, sha bc3c5688c23e)
  - site_page: https://www.rundeck.com/features (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:14.382958+00:00, sha b11d798ba998)
  - site_page: https://docs.rundeck.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:14.387275+00:00, sha 6c14f2386584)
  - site_page: https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/learning/solutions/storage-management (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:14.391853+00:00, sha 7f7d9294a2cc)
  - site_page: https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/manual/plugins/kubernetes-plugins-overview.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:14.394918+00:00, sha 195f02bffd63)
  - site_page: https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/manual/plugins/aws-plugins-overview.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:14.396777+00:00, sha c76af35f1e18)
  - site_page: https://www.rundeck.com/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:14.385220+00:00, sha 6b81811e57be)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.