System Requirements for Rundeck

Supported Operating Systems:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Oracle Linux
• CentOS
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Windows Server

Amazon EC2

• Instance size of m3.medium or larger
• An instance size of m3.xlarge or larger if there are more than 100 hosts

Supported Database.

• Mysql version
• Mariadb version
• Postgres version
• Oracle version

Supported Log store

• File system
• S3 compatible object store

Others Important

• JAVA 8 or 11 Installed.
• 2 CPUs – 2 CPUs per instance
• 4 GB RAM – 4GB for the JVM instance
• 20 GB hard disk

Network access

• 4440 (http) & 4443 (https)
• Port 4440|4443 | netstat -an | egrep ‘4440|4443’

How to Install Rundeck OSS in Ubtunu?

Step 1- Install Java

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install openjdk-17-jdk
$ sudo apt install openjdk-17-jre
$ java –version

Java Installation Guide in Linux & Windows

Step 2 – Download rundeck Package

https://www.rundeck.com/downloads

Step 3 – Run Installer commands.

How to install and Configure Rundeck?

$ wget https://packagecloud.io/pagerduty/rundeck/packages/any/any/rundeck_5.12.0.20250512-1_all.deb/download.deb?distro_version_id=35
$ mv 'download.deb?distro_version_id=35' rundeck.deb
$ chmod 755 rundeck.deb
$ dpkg -i rundeck.deb
$ cd /etc/rundeck/
$ vi /etc/rundeck/rundeck-config.properties
# This should be PUBLIC IP of Server - grails.serverURL=http://15.206.169.12:4440
$ cd /var/lib/rundeck/

# How to start the rundeck services

$ service rundeckd status
$ service rundeckd start
$ service rundeckd stop

or
/etc/init.d/rundeckd start
/etc/init.d/rundeckd stop
/etc/init.d/rundeckd statusCode language: PHP (php)

Wait for few mins
and then
http://13.233.140.35:4440/
admin/admin

RUNDECK INSTALL PACKAGE

Install Rundeck Method

Docker

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$ docker run --rm -it -p 4440:4440 rundeckpro/enterprise:4.0.1

or

$ docker info
$ docker ps
$ docker run --name rundeck-opensource -d -e RUNDECK_GRAILS_URL=http://3.111.53.239:4440 -e RUNDECK_SERVER_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0 -p 4440:4440 -v data:/home/rundeck/server/data rundeck/rundeck:4.0.1

$ docker run --name rundeck-opensource -d -e RUNDECK_GRAILS_URL=http://43.204.22.177:4440 -e RUNDECK_SERVER_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0 -p 4440:4440 -v data:/home/rundeck/server/data rundeck/rundeck:5.12.0

$ docker run --name rundeck-opensource -d -e RUNDECK_GRAILS_URL=http://43.204.22.177:4440 -e RUNDECK_SERVER_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0 -p 4440:4440 -v /root/data:/home/rundeck/server/data rundeck/rundeck:5.12.


$ docker ps -a
$ ls 
# Access - http://3.111.53.239:4440/
with admin/adminCode language: PHP (php)

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How to access Rundeck using IP Address

  28  vi rundeck-config.properties
   29  history
   30  sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   31  sudo service rundeckd restart
Code language: CSS (css)

Installing on Ubuntu or Debian Linux distributions

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Rundeck pro enterprise in Centos/Redhat

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Configure Rundeck

/etc/rundeck/
/var/lib/rundeck/

OR

$RDECK_BASE/etc/
$RDECK_BASE/server/config/

DEB/RPM layout

/etc/rundeck/
├── admin.aclpolicy
├── apitoken.aclpolicy
├── artifact-repositories.yaml
├── framework.properties
├── jaas-loginmodule.conf
├── log4j.properties
├── profile
├── project.properties
├── realm.properties
├── rundeck-config.properties
├── rundeckpro-license.key
├── ssl
│   ├── ssl.properties
│   ├── keystore (not packaged)
│   └── truststore (not packaged)
├── system-job_reader.aclpolicy_template
├── system-job_runner.aclpolicy_template
├── system-job_viewer.aclpolicy_template
├── system-job_writer.aclpolicy_template
└── system-project_admin.aclpolicy_template

/var/lib/rundeck/
├── bootstrap
├── data
├── libext
├── logs
├── projects
├── repository
├── var
└── workCode language: JavaScript (javascript)

Launcher layout

$RDECK_BASE/etc/
├── admin.aclpolicy
├── apitoken.aclpolicy
├── framework.properties
├── preferences.properties
├── profile
├── profile.bat
└── project.properties

$RDECK_BASE/server/config/
├── artifact-repositories.yaml
├── jaas-loginmodule.conf
├── log4j.properties
├── realm.properties
├── rundeck-config.properties
└── ssl.propertiesCode language: PHP (php)

How to install RunDeck in Windows

Step 1 - Download - https://packagecloud.io/pagerduty/rundeck/packages/java/org.rundeck/rundeck-5.12.0-20250512.war/artifacts/rundeck-5.12.0-20250512.war/download?distro_version_id=167

Step 2 - java -jar your-app.war

Step 2 - http://localhost:4440/
admin/adminCode language: JavaScript (javascript)

How to install Enterprise Rundeck

Step 1 - curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rundeck/packaging/main/scripts/deb-setup.sh 2> /dev/null | sudo bash -s rundeckpro

Step 2 - sudo apt-get install rundeckpro-enterprise

Step 3 - sudo /etc/init.d/rundeckd startCode language: JavaScript (javascript)

Step 2 – http://IP:4440/
admin/admin