Rundeck VS SaltStack

Have a look at rundeck.org

Firstly, I tried Rundeck and Apache Airflow. They are complete overkill for what I want to do. Then I found Cronicle which is light enough, besides it can pull double duty as a general purpose scheduler.

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.

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

It's definitely some sort of AI script. Not this exactly, but something working off Python or scripts of thar nature. https://github.com/saltstack/salt

repo: 'https://repo.saltproject.io'

Otherwise, in addition to ansible-core, there's other config management projects written in python like salt or fabric that you could perhaps draw inspiration from.

Reference: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/57121.

This month, we announced the long-awaited launch of Idem, an open source tool that simplifies cloud-management automation by reducing configuration to data (instead of code) — making it easier to maintain, discover, and use. Idem is a complement to the open source project Salt (created by SaltStack, which VMware acquired in October of 2020). While Salt was built to automate the process of systems configuration (such as databases and applications running inside virtual machines), Idem automates cloud configuration, settings, user management, and resource creation. If you’ve used Salt, you’ll find Idem familiar and easy to navigate. Together, Idem and Salt form a full automation solution.

Source kinda indicates that it needs to be set too: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/master/salt/pillar/gpg.py

hehe i didnt want to put `between 1 and` because of the salt fiasco https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21...

https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/pull/358 https://github.com/b12io/orchestra/pull/830 https://github.com/batiste/django-page-cms/pull/210 https://github.com/carpentries/amy/pull/2130 https://github.com/celery/django-celery/pull/612 https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/7241 https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/3867 https://github.com/esrg-knights/Squire/pull/253https://github.com/Frojd/django-react-templatetags/pull/64 https://github.com/groveco/django-sql-explorer/pull/474 https://github.com/jazzband/django-silk/pull/550 https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/16073 https://github.com/ministryofjustice/cla_backend/pull/773 https://github.com/nitely/Spirit/pull/306 https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/pull/1987 https://github.com/rapidpro/rapidpro/pull/1610 https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/22396 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/61647 https://github.com/Swiss-Polar-Institute/project-application/pull/483 https://github.com/UEWBot/dipvis/pull/216

Have a look at https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/master/tests/pytests/unit and https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/development/tests/unit.html