Automation and monitoring

Finally, we need to ensure our solution is suitable for a production environment. Therefore, we will schedule the whole workflow using Rundeck and implement monitoring to ensure everything is running smoothly.

Rundeck scheduling workflow

Project schedules allow us to define schedules that can apply to any job in the project. You can run a Rundeck job in the following ways:

• Manually from the web interface
• Via a schedule (simple or crontab)
• Via an API call with a user token

If we want to run a job manually, we need to go inside the project, select the target job, and click Run Job Now:

Figure 13.30 – Rundeck – Run Job Now

Next, we can define a schedule using one of two options: Simple or Crontab. Simple can be used if our needs are very basic:

Figure 13.31 – Rundeck job scheduling (1/2)

If we want to plan an advanced schedule, we will need to use Crontab, where...