Jobs

Main Jobs Page

https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/manual/04-jobs.html 

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NOTE: Jobs do not have to have a Job Group. If they don't, they will be displayed at the bottom underneath all of the job groups.

New Job

The top right "Job Actions" button will provide an option to create a new job:

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There are only two required fields:

  1. Details > Job Name
  2. Workflow > Step

Everything else is optional

Details

Workflow

https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/manual/job-workflows.html 

This spells out the steps and variables to use for the job.

NOTE: Every change in each of the following sections has to be saved separately before the workflow itself can be saved.

Options

https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/manual/job-options.html 

Arguments/variables that are set when the job is run. Notable options are:

Workflow Control

Several options pertaining to the workflow itself are present separate from the steps:

Steps

Here are where the actual executions are structured. There are a lot of options and ways to construct this, so I'll only lay out what I'm familiar with:

NOTE: This is where plugins will usually be adding functionality.

Nodes

Remote nodes or locally. We always execute locally.

Schedule

Notifications

https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/manual/jobs/job-notifications.html 

Other

FWIW, the Log Output is very handy when executing locally to simply jump directly to the output.


Revision #6
Created 22 September 2021 01:21:52 by jmoore53
Updated 12 January 2022 03:55:29 by andrewcz