Rundeck / Process Automation

Runbook automation and self-service ops jobs

★ Stars6.3k6,343 on GitHub
Last commit16 Oct 2026
LicenceApache-2.0SPDX, from the repository
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From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026.

Rundeck (now part of PagerDuty Process Automation) is an open-source runbook automation tool for scheduled and on-demand ops jobs with access control.

Fit: hosting and licence

Runs onLinux, Self-hosted
HostingSelf-host or cloud
Commercial useAllowed
Open-source licence (Apache-2.0): the Open Source Definition rules out restrictions on fields of use, including business use.

Sources: rundeck.com · opensource.org/osd, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs on” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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