Rundeck Office Hours

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Monthly Community Rundeck Office Hours.

Have questions about Rundeck? Want to learn Rundeck best practices? Join our monthly Office Hours! We’ll host a panel of experienced Rundeck team members to discuss a specific Rundeck product topic and take your live support questions. https://www.rundeck.com/rundeck-office-hours

Please submit your topic suggestions in this thread.

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Rundeck Office Hours, December 9th. Topic: Best Practices for Setting Up Rundeck ACL’s
Register here: https://www.rundeck.com/rundeck-office-hours

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January Rundeck Office Hours Topic: Creating Custom Plugins

January 13, 2022 at 10 am PT, Register today and pre-submit your questions: https://www.rundeck.com/rundeck-office-hours

Most of what Rundeck does is via one of it’s plugins. There are already over 100+ plugins to perform various services including executing commands on nodes, performing step in a workflow, or sending notification about job status. There may be instances where you need to write your own plugin to perform a specific step or action. In this session, will walk through the steps for writing our own plugin. Attend to learn:

  1. Review the structure of plugin
  2. How to use the structure and what information you need to include in other files to make your plugin work
  3. How to write a simple plugin example using java
  4. How to reply and use your plugin
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Rundeck Office Hours continues, February 10th at 10am PST where we’ll discuss Creating Custom Plugins. Register: https://www.rundeck.com/rundeck-office-hours

Most of what Rundeck does is via one of it’s plugins. There are already over 100+ plugins to perform various services including executing commands on nodes, performing step in a workflow, or sending notification about job status. There may be instances where you need to write your own plugin to perform a specific step or action. In this session, will walk through the steps for writing our own plugin.

Attend to learn:

  • Review the structure of plugin
  • How to use the structure and what information you need to include in other files to make your plugin work
  • How to write a simple plugin example using java
  • How to reply and use your plugin

Register today: https://www.rundeck.com/rundeck-office-hours

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Whether or not you were able to join our discussion and demo on creating custom plugins using Rundeck, here are links to the materials we covered. As requested from one of our community members, check out the new Rundeck Plugin thread.

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/Rundeck/how-to-build-a-custom-plugin-in-rundeck
Video: https://rundeck.wistia.com/medias/t6a4vh4r3e

Watch the recording to here our experts:

  • Give examples of UI plugin dev/features available
  • Discuss special considerations for variable expansion
  • Outline any differences between community and enterprise plugin
  • Give best practices in pulling Nodes from Active Directory

Join us again for Rundeck Office Hours, March 10th, as we discuss passing data between steps. Register today: https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/webinar/rundeck-office-hours-march10/

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March 10, join us for Rundeck Office Hours: Passing Data Between Steps. https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/webinar/rundeck-office-hours-march10/
Pick a time zone that’s right for you.

Rundeck offers powerul runbook automation. Most Runbooks are complicated multi-step processes. We will show various examples of how to share data from one step to another through the use of Log Filters.
Come join this session to learn how to:

  • Use different types of Log Filters to gather variables from your Job Steps
  • Gather variables and use the values in other Job Steps
  • Use the Result Data feature to format your output in a consistent format regardless of the log output.
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Whether or not you were able to join our discussion and demo on passing data between steps, here are links to the materials we covered.

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/Rundeck/rundeck-community-office-hours-using-variables-with-job-steps
Video: https://rundeck.wistia.com/medias/xhq3pcufgg

Watch the recording to hear our experts deliver some common troubleshooting steps to working with log filters.

Join us again for Rundeck Office Hours, April 14th, as we discuss managing nodes in Rundeck. Register today: https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/webinar/rundeck-office-hours/

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Rundeck Office Hours continues, April 14 where we’ll discuss Managing Nodes in Rundeck. Register: https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/webinar/rundeck-office-hours/

Attend to discuss:

  • Defining Nodes with a Static file
  • Accessing Dynamic Node Info
  • Enhancing Node Data

Register today: https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/webinar/rundeck-office-hours/

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What do you want to hear from Rundeck? Let us know what topics you’re interested in learning more about. Maybe it’s a problem you face again and again, use cases for new features or you want to know general automation best practices. Drop your suggestions here.