Rundeck vs Commercial Feature Comparison.

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PagerDuty Runbook Automation
CORE FEATURES

Workflow Execution

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Standardization of IT Workflow execution  (Provisioning, Security, Software Updates / Deployment, Change Configs, Opening Ports, and more)

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Key and Password Encryption

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Basic Ops Scheduling for Tasks

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SUPPORT

Enterprise Support (Priority-Based Support, Account Management, SLA Response, and more)

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RESILIENCY

High Availability Clusters, ensures Runbook Automation is continuously operational

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PagerDuty managed high availability and reliability with SLA (99.9%)

Failed Job Resume, allows a job to resume from the failed step

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Node Health Checks, ensure nodes are ready for job execution

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Auto Takeover, if a Cluster Member goes down, all scheduled jobs on that member are moved to a healthy instance

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Retry Failed Nodes, re-run a job if it fails to complete on specific nodes, but only for the nodes which failed on the prior execution.

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System Report, provides a breakdown of the Rundeck server's system statistics and information.

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SECURITY

PagerDuty handles security patching, protection, monitoring, and compliance.

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Customer builds resiliency

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DEEPER SOLUTIONS INTEGRATIONS

Certified Enterprise Plugins (PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Datadog, VMWare, Github, AWS SNS, SQL Runner, and many more)

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Advanced Webhooks, GitHub, AWS SNS, PagerDuty, etc.Includes Rule Based Processing and in-product Debugging

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SCALABILITY

Load Balanced Workloads, horizontally scale your Rundeck cluster by designating specific cluster members to handle certain types of traffic or certain types of jobs

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Job Queuing, job executions can be queued when parallel executions are not allowed

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USABILITY

Workflow Visualization

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Ruleset Workflow Strategy Plugin, provides more complex logic around job step execution

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GUI based ACL via Access Control Rules Builder and Evaluator

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Configuration Management, set configuration settings via the GUI and store them in the Rundeck database

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SCHEDULING

Missed Job Fires, if a job doesn't run at the scheduled time, an execution with a status of "missed" will be added to the activity page.

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Community
CORE FEATURES:
  • Workflow Execution
  • Community Plugins
  • Standardization of IT Workflow execution (Provisioning, Security, Software Updates / Deployment, Change Configs, Opening Ports, and more)
  • Key and Password Encryption
  • Basic Ops Scheduling for Tasks
  • Job Activity Log
  • Key Storage
Process Automation Software
SUPPORT:
  • Enterprise Support (Priority-Based Support, Account Management, SLA Response, and more)
RESILIENCY:
  • High Availability Clusters, ensures Runbook Automation is continuously operational
  • Failed Job Resume, allows a job to resume from the failed step
  • Node Health Checks, ensure nodes are ready for job execution
  • Auto Takeover, if a Cluster Member goes down, all scheduled jobs on that member are moved to a healthy instance
  • Retry Failed Nodes, re-run a job if it fails to complete on specific nodes, but only for the nodes which failed on the prior execution.
  • System Report, provides a breakdown of the Rundeck server's system statistics and information.
SECURITY:
  • Single Sign-On Authentication
  • Customer manages patches and updates.
DEEPER SOLUTIONS INTEGRATIONS:
  • Certified Enterprise Plugins (PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Datadog, VMWare, Github, AWS SNS, SQL Runner, and many more)
  • Advanced Webhooks, GitHub, AWS SNS, PagerDuty, etc.Includes Rule Based Processing and in-product Debugging
SCALABILITY:
  • Load Balanced Workloads, horizontally scale your Rundeck cluster by designating specific cluster members to handle certain types of traffic or certain types of jobs
  • Job Queuing, job executions can be queued when parallel executions are not allowed
USABILITY:
  • Workflow Visualization
  • Ruleset Workflow Strategy Plugin, provides more complex logic around job step execution
  • GUI based ACL via Access Control Rules Builder and Evaluator
  • Configuration Management, set configuration settings via the GUI and store them in the Rundeck database
SCHEDULING:
  • Job Independent Scheduling
  • Blackout Calendaring
  • Schedule Forecast Visualization
  • Missed Job Fires, if a job doesn't run at the scheduled time, an execution with a status of "missed" will be added to the activity page.
CORE FEATURES:
  • Workflow Execution
  • Community Plugins
  • Standardization of IT Workflow execution (Provisioning, Security, Software Updates / Deployment, Change Configs, Opening Ports, and more)
  • Key and Password Encryption
  • Basic Ops Scheduling for Tasks
  • Job Activity Log
  • Key Storage
Runbook Automation
SUPPORT:
  • Enterprise Support (Priority-Based Support, Account Management, SLA Response, and more)
RESILIENCY:
  • PagerDuty manages high availability and reliability with SLA (99.9%)
  • Failed Job Resume, allows a job to resume from the failed step
  • Node Health Checks, ensure nodes are ready for job execution
  • Auto Takeover, if a Cluster Member goes down, all scheduled jobs on that member are moved to a healthy instance
  • Retry Failed Nodes, re-run a job if it fails to complete on specific nodes, but only for the nodes which failed on the prior execution.
  • System Report, provides a breakdown of the Rundeck server's system statistics and information.
SECURITY:
  • Single Sign-On Authentication
  • PagerDuty handles security patching, protection, monitoring, and compliance.
DEEPER SOLUTIONS INTEGRATIONS:
  • Certified Enterprise Plugins (PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Datadog, VMWare, Github, AWS SNS, SQL Runner, and many more)
  • Advanced Webhooks, GitHub, AWS SNS, PagerDuty, etc.Includes Rule Based Processing and in-product Debugging
SCALABILITY:
  • Load Balanced Workloads, horizontally scale your Rundeck cluster by designating specific cluster members to handle certain types of traffic or certain types of jobs
  • Job Queuing, job executions can be queued when parallel executions are not allowed
USABILITY:
  • Workflow Visualization
  • Ruleset Workflow Strategy Plugin, provides more complex logic around job step execution
  • GUI based ACL via Access Control Rules Builder and Evaluator
  • Configuration Management, set configuration settings via the GUI and store them in the Rundeck database
SCHEDULING:
  • Job Independent Scheduling
  • Blackout Calendaring
  • Schedule Forecast Visualization
  • Missed Job Fires, if a job doesn't run at the scheduled time, an execution with a status of "missed" will be added to the activity page.
CORE FEATURES:
  • Workflow Execution
  • Community Plugins
  • Standardization of IT Workflow execution (Provisioning, Security, Software Updates / Deployment, Change Configs, Opening Ports, and more)
  • Key and Password Encryption
  • Basic Ops Scheduling for Tasks
  • Job Activity Log
  • Key Storage

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