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by RadiozRadioz 1118 days ago
So, it's Rundeck with a nicer user interface?

Rundeck is Open Source and self-hostable, whereas this appears to be a proprietary hosted solution, which is prickly given that this tool will theoretically have administrator privileges on lots of stuff it automates.

I've successfully trained non-technical users to do simple tasks on Rundeck, I don't think that's a big issue.

Edit: And less functionality, it seems. No bash scripting or Ansible? Rundeck has a wealth of plugins[1] already, Onu will have to do some serious catchup. As it stands, I'll need to write more custom application code & glue for these Onu tasks than I would otherwise.

The UI does look friendly though, and I've found that it's harder to get businesspeople to use something that doesn't look "modern" like this does. Perhaps Rundeck needs a CSS pack?

[1]: https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/plugins/