Rundeck facilitates deployment automation and self-service operations for development and QA, integrating seamlessly with Nexus and Jenkins. Through its plugins, it allows for artifact management and delivery, providing visibility and control via Jira tickets. The integration ensures smooth workflows by checking ticket statuses and updating issues in real-time during deployment processes.

1. Nexus Live
June 5, 2014

2. ● Formalize your ops procedures
● Safely enable self-service ops
● Built for DevOps demands
Open Source: Apache v2 License
github.com/rundeck/rundeck

3. Why Rundeck?

9. Who uses Rundeck?

11. Popular Use Cases

12. Deployment Automation
“Zero Click”
or
Manual Trigger

13. Providing Visibility into Deployment

14. Self-Service Dev/QA Environments

15. Empowering the NOC

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17. Popular Trio: Jenkins + Nexus +
Rundeck

18. Technical Integration
Nexus Rundeck plugin
● Remote option provider provides choices
to rundeck jobs
Rundeck Nexus Step plugins
● Check if artifact in repo
● Deliver artifact to remote node
● Register delivery to rundeck

19. Self service deployment for QA

20. Deliver Artifact
Job: Deploy
Options:
* Jira ticket ID
* Artifact coordinate
* install directory
Workflow Steps:
* Check-Ticket
* Deploy Artifact
Notifications:
* on complete: Update issue
Nexus repo
remote node
Deliver
Artifact
Nodes
model
Jira
Check-Issue
● Deployment controlled by issue check in
Jira.
● Deploy job checks nexus for artifact
● Artifact delivered to remote node
● Project resource model records artifact
deployed to remote node
● Jira issue updated with job info
Jira
Artifact
Options
Register
Artifact
Delivery

21. Links
● Rundeck Home Page: http://rundeck.org
● Nexus / Rundeck Plugins
○ Nexus Rundeck Plugin: https://github.
com/rundeck/nexus-rundeck-plugin
○ Rundeck Step Plugins: https://github.com/rundeck-
plugins/nexus-step-plugins
● Jira Plugins
○ https://github.com/rundeck-plugins/jira-notification
○ https://github.com/rundeck-plugins/jira-workflow-step