In this session we will give a live walkthrough covering new capabilities released in Rundeck 3.4. Learn about security & compliance improvements we’ve made including the ability to organize secrets management by project -- so now each Runbook can access a different set of passwords and keys for its access control list (ACL). We also have a new plug-in for Thycotic users to manage secrets. Rundeck 3.4 now allows for queueing of jobs when those jobs must be run serially. Finally, we’ll discuss our vision for the future of Rundeck, and our primary development themes for the next year.

1. Forrest Evans
What’s New in Rundeck

2. Forrest Evans
Director of Product - Rundeck, PagerDuty
Miguel Ramos
Product Designer - Rundeck, PagerDuty

3. • What’s new in 3.4.X
• New features and a whole new User Interface.
• 3.4.2 Preview
• Seeking feedback on incubating features.
• Future of Rundeck
• Where are we investing our time this year?
Agenda

4. Incident
Incident
What is Rundeck?
4

5. What is Rundeck?
5

6. Rundeck Ecosystem
6
CI/CD
Monitoring &
Observability
Secrets
Management
ITOps
ITSM
Configuration &
Infrastructure
Management
Infrastructure
& Cloud
Identity
Management

7. 3.4
● Intuitive Usability
● Up and Useful
● Customer Ecosystem

8. [Re]Designed
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… because easy is better than difficult

9. Why a Re-design?
● Intuitive Usability = Approachability
○ Expand your audience of who
can use Rundeck
● Functional Improvements

10. ● More room for you to work.
● Items are no longer hidden behind scroll bars.
● Easier to use.
Condensed Project Menu

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Project Selector with Search
• Always accessible project selection with
easier navigation.
• Aligns with the Rundeck hierarchy of
information for quickly getting to Projects
from other areas.
• Quick Search functionality allows finding
your projects faster.

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Utility Bar Plugins
• Plugin Capable Location in the footer
where we can add new functionality inside
the Rundeck interface.
• Utility Bar Plugin IDEAS
• List of recent/assigned incidents
• Quick view Rundeck Performance Stats
• Feedback Form
• Support Widgets

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Visual Enhancements
• Distinct CTA buttons: clearly defines the
primary action for the section or page
• Zebra Striped Tables: Contrast helps to
visually differentiate between rows
• Tab Context Highlights and Active State:
Color and boldness serves a pronounced
marker of the context

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Configuration Management
• Now Rundeck admins can manage
configuration within the UI.
• Centralized configuration options shared
with cluster members.
• Options for new deployment models.
• Fewer restarts!

15. ● Unlock large scale usage for jobs that can’t run in
parallel.
● Line up executions behind one another and
execute the next one when the previous one
finishes.
Job Queuing

16. Enhanced ACL Configuration
• Streamline Project deployment to users
with just the access they need.
• Securely scale your organization’s use of
Rundeck
• Allows setting ACLs at the Project Level
for Project Specific Key Storage entries
(passwords/keys)

17. Plugin!
+
• Key Storage now supports Thycotic as a
backend along with Hashicorp Vault

18. And there’s more
● Performance Refactor(s)
○ Operations reduced from minutes to seconds
○ Scaling improvements to allow your Rundeck to expand without worry.
● New Installation Sources
○ New installation procedures and endpoints.
● System Report goes GA
○ Improved metrics and technical support processes
● Database Migration
○ Streamlines upgrade processes for customers
● API Deprecation
○ No more support for version 10 and below
● Remove File System Project Definition support
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… Enterprise scaling and flexibility

19. 3.4.1
• New Webhooks Design (3.4.1)
• Cyberark Key Storage Plugin

20. Incubating Features

21. 3.4.2
Result Data
Incubating Feature

22. 3.4.2
Ruleset Visualization
Incubating Feature

23. Future of Rundeck Enterprise

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Themes for 2021
● Streamlining Self-Service Operations
○ Tighter Integration with PagerDuty
■ Runbook Actions integration directly with Rundeck
Enterprise
○ Built for Enterprise
■ Integrations: We are always looking to make
Rundeck work with the tools and platforms our
customers care about.
■ Scaling for larger environments and more
complicated use cases.
○ Intuitive Usability
■ Continue to improve UI and UX functionality to
enhance user experience across the platform.

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● Fully Revamped Learning Section on our
Documentation Site:
○ Getting Started Tutorial
○ How To Articles covering a variety of use
cases and common requests
● Companion Code
○ Job Examples
○ Self Service environments to learn on
Rundeck Content

26. See a Demo
rundeck.com/see-demo
Learn More
docs.rundeck.com/learning
Rundeck Forums
community.pagerduty.com

27. Thank you
Forrest Evans / Miguel Ramos