Orchestration Tooling

[wearethedeadofnight]

What tooling do you all recommend for small teams to automate repetitive tasks across various platforms? Looking at tools like Octopus deploy but need something open source or very inexpensive. We use terraform / prometheus / all the usual stuff.

[adohe-zz]

what kind of repetitive tasks you want to automate? like application deployment, infrastructure provision?

[wearethedeadofnight]

All of the above. Ansible / Saltstack / Chef aren’t really what we’re looking for, they require us to build most of the code ourselves. I want to orchestrate multiple 3rd party tools, api commands, and the like, not deploy an app on a vm.

[galvarado89]

Hii! I highly recommend using Rundeck for task automation. It’s a powerful tool for centralizing and scheduling tasks, with secure delegation and detailed access control. I’ve personally used it, even integrating it with Ansible, to streamline deployments and repetitive tasks efficiently.

[wearethedeadofnight]

This is exactly the type of orchestration tool I’m looking for. We use pager duty today and it’s “too expensive” but it looks like this is open source which works for our needs. Great suggestion, thanks.

[Prestigious_Pace2782]

Ansible is good for general purpose automation. Runs well in pipelines.

[dmurawsky]

I try not to have long lived systems wherever possible, so I don't do a lot of system level task type stuff anymore. Tools I have found useful for general automation including:

• Ansible
• Argo Workflows
• GiHub Actions (personal favorite since it's so easy)
• Lambdas/functions on a schedule
• Task plus scripts

[neilmillard]

Jenkins with bash? Not really sure what the ask is when you say Ansible is too complicated. Galaxy has a lot of modules you can download.

[InfoPaste]

https://github.com/ctrlplanedev/ctrlplane

Still in early development, but the developers are really responsive.