Nomad VS Rundeck

How much time are you willing to read and learn? These are not things you'll be able to pick up overnight. You might also consider Nomad over Kubernetes. Portainer also has a distributed model (and can use Nomad/k8s I believe).

I believe Nomad is hailed as the replacement: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad#readme

I would caution one against "javascript framework syndrome:" bah, this framework is too complicated, I just want something simpler ... ok, it doesn't work right in all circumstances, I'll just add this one feature(, ... ok, maybe just this one other feature)+ ... bah, this framework is too complicated!

In a previous hackathon, data analyst Chris Migirdic built an IDE where you present your own time series data/problem, and a layer could be provided over it to make time-series predictions. This iteration was quickly dubbed “BYOSQL,” or Bring Your Own SQL, by participants as he explained one could write any SQL query against Lob’s data warehouse, and you'd be able to fit a time series model over that. The most obvious application for Lob is evaluating mailpiece data. Another improvement over the previous version was performance; much of this was attributed to a shift to deployment in Nomad. Finally, another benefit of the program is to pick up what kinds of queries people are running and get an idea of what prediction problems our developers are trying to solve.

That being said, it hasn't kept similar offerings from continuing to pop up as a "less complex" solution. Take Nomad for instance.

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In this post, I want to show how you can implement your own tool using the HCL format. The HCL configuration format is used by all the amazing HasiCorp tools like Terraform, Vault, and Nomad.

Nomad Client (www.nomadproject.io - Container Orchestration)

Shoulda been more clear, sorry; I don't use docker or docker swarm. I'm using nomad as my orchestration system (and the cluster I have running at home is exclusively podman nodes, so no docker even). I need to rewrite the docker-compose in nomad's HCL format, which usually this only takes a few minutes but appwrite's docker-compose is pretty dense. I might write a script to do it, tbh.

I think it's often better to "pick your poison" in terms of cloud providers and commit to it, with a rough migration plan that you can execute if you have to. There'll be common patterns in your systems that can be repeated if a large-scale lift-and-shift has to happen for some reason. But it's never easy, and I've found different clouds to have their own idiosyncrasies that make migration difficult - larger migrations will inevitably take time, effort, and lots of planning.

If you're looking for alternatives, or something lighter weight than Kubernetes, I've used Nomad (plus Terraform and Ansible) and some shell scripts to get repeatable clusters deployed and migrated between cloud providers: https://www.nomadproject.io/

Yesterday we posted a Security Advisory to Github for a critical vulnerability in Rundeck Community and Rundeck Enterprise Docker images, versions 4.0 and earlier. Those Docker images contained a pre-generated SSH key pair in the default file path. If that key was used to configure SSH access to hosts, they would allow access to anyone with the exposed private key.

My bad I was looking in their site I don't looked it up in GitHub repo, thanks.

It seems that you're facing this, which Rundeck version are you using? You can try clean all configuration with the "clean config" button at SCM Import.

I was looking at alternatives like RunDeck or Chronos, etc, but they are either very resource hungry (java) or not really suitable.

Never used it myself (we're currently working on deploying Tower) but I've heard that Rundeck is the goto for your exact use case: "Tower, but less heavy". I looked at it when evaluating for my current job and it looks like a good middle of the road solution and looks way easier to deploy than AWX. The tradeoff is that since it's not custom built for Ansible you can automate lots of other things with it (like just bash scripts and the like) but you get less of the Ansible-specific integrations and tooling that Tower offers.

Hi! This fix solves the bug, is ready to be included in the next release. Regards.

There is already an open GitHub issue on this, but I wanted to mention it here as it can cause some nasty surprises for those unaware.

Compare to rundeck after they were acquired by Pagerduty

https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck/graphs/contributors

Hi! That's reported here, please add your use case.