The document is a presentation on integrating Rundeck with Ansible, led by Forrest Evans and Dutch Rapley from PagerDuty. It outlines the benefits of this integration, provides tips for getting started, and includes a demo and Q&A session. Audience engagement tools, such as polls, and resources for further learning are also mentioned.

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
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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!