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9 self-hosted PagerDuty Rundeck alternatives

Cloud-hosted runbook automation and orchestration platform for scheduling, executing, and managing operational jobs and workflows across systems. Provides access control, credential management, integrations, logging, and incident-response execution to reduce manual toil.

Alternatives to PagerDuty Rundeck

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Self-hostable workflow automation platform combining a visual builder with JavaScript/Python code steps, 400+ integrations, and AI-assisted automation.

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203.3k stars60.5k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Open-source, browser-based low-code platform and Node.js runtime for wiring devices, APIs and services into event-driven flows for automation, IoT and integrations.

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23.6k stars3.9k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source event-driven automation platform for DevOps and SRE, with rules, workflows, ChatOps, and hundreds of integration packs for auto-remediation and incident response.

6.5k stars787 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source runbook automation platform to schedule jobs, orchestrate workflows, and provide controlled self-service operations via web UI and API.

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6.3k stars988 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source Node.js distributed task scheduler with web UI, real-time logs, multi-server failover, REST API and plugin support for arbitrary scripts.

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5.8k stars502 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Portable, file-backed workflow orchestrator that defines DAGs in declarative YAML, runs anywhere as a single binary, and includes a modern Web UI for monitoring and control.

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3.8k stars320 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted web UI that exposes YAML-defined shell commands as buttons, dashboards and API endpoints with ACLs, auth and logging for safe, repeatable server operations.

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3.8k stars136 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

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µTask is a lightweight automation engine for cloud workflows modeled in YAML, backed by PostgreSQL, with extensible Go-based actions.

1.4k stars104 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Actively maintained

On-premises IT task scheduler to centralize, schedule, and run scripts and commands across servers via SSH/WinRM, with workflows, logs, notifications, and an API.

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What replacing PagerDuty Rundeck actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 8 of 9 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0, BSD-3-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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