Rundeck, Inc. and DevOps

Damon Edwards: Rundeck was born as an open source project in 2010. It filled a gap in the automation toolchain and had what we thought was a modest and helpful community, so we kept it going. Around 2014, we discovered there was something special going on. The first indicator was that we had all of these large, household-name companies calling us for help with Rundeck, and not our consulting services. They would say, "We know that you're consultants, and maybe we'll get to that later, but we're using Rundeck, and we need help here and there."

Eventually, we figured out that Rundeck was being used by companies to fix the operations end of their DevOps problems. After enough people told us that Rundeck changed their lives, Alex Honor, Greg Schuler, and myself, the three founders of Rundeck Inc, decided to shut down the consulting company and focus on Rundeck. The deciding factor was that we could help a lot more people at scale with...