Operations teams depend on a mixture of tools to keep their systems running. One popular pairing for Rundeck users is integrating Ansible playbooks into Rundeck to orchestrate and schedule workflows across multiple tools. Join us for this Lunch and Learn event to learn how you can use Rundeck to create runbooks that span your existing Ansible playbooks -- as well as any other scripts, tools, APIs, or systems commands, to respond to incidents or perform Operations tasks. Join us to learn: Benefits of using Rundeck and Ansible together How to configure your Rundeck to use the Ansible plugin Tips for getting started with the integration And see a demo of the integration This event is recommended for beginners.

1. Lunch and
Learn:
Getting Started
with Rundeck
and Ansible
Forrest Evans and Dutch Rapley
January 2021

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Today’s Speakers
Forrest Evans
Director of Product Management
for Rundeck at PagerDuty
Dutch Rapley
Professional Services Consultant
at PagerDuty

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Agenda
1 Background
2 Benefits of using Rundeck and Ansible
3 Tips for Getting Started
4 How the Rundeck Ansible Plugins Work
5 Demo
6 Q&A
3

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Poll

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Background
A very popular pairing for Rundeck users is integrating Ansible
playbooks into Rundeck to orchestrate and schedule workflows across
multiple tools.
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How Rundeck Works

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Rundeck & Ansible
Ansible: Simple, agentless automation that covers a broad range of use
cases.
Rundeck: Rundeck has the agentless automation, but includes a
comprehensive end-user interface to organize, execute, and secure your
automation runbooks and share them with other operators.

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Tips for getting started
● Rundeck Documentation site with Learning Content
● Rundeck and Ansible on same server
● Ansible repositories need to be readable by Rundeck user
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9. Demo

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Q&A

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List of Ansible Plugins
● Ansible Node Source
● AdHoc Node Executor
● Job Steps
Learning Content with Sample Project
https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/learning/howto/using-ansible.html
Rundeck/Ansible Resources

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Rundeck Resources
Visit:
www.rundeck.com/open-source
Join the Conversation:
https://community.pagerduty.com/forum/c/rundeck

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What’s Next?
Request a demo of
Rundeck Enterprise:
https://www.rundeck.com/see-demo
Download Rundeck OSS:
https://www.rundeck.com/downloads

14. Thank you!