Rundeck vs Shuffle

Rundeck orchestrates existing automation for routine work across development and production environments. It combines scripts, tools, APIs, and system commands into workflows, with job scheduling, infrastructure management, self-service, and automated operations. Users can schedule recurring tasks such as reports or file transfers, while the job activity log records run times, output, and duration. Rundeck includes ready-made plugins and lets users create integrations; featured community plugins include Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, HashiCorp Vault, Azure Storage, Google Cloud Platform, and Jira. Granular role-based controls govern what can run and who can run it, while an activity audit trail and Key Storage help restrict access to sensitive job data. Rundeck Community is free for small teams, with registration required. Commercial versions include high availability and resiliency, and the hosted offering lists a 99.9% SLA. Commercial support is available by phone, email, or portal; a commercial trial is offered. Supported systems include Linux, Windows, and macOS, with web, API, and self-hosted options.

Shuffle is an open-source automation platform for security teams to build and run workflows. Its visual designer works with a no-code app creator that can generate integrations from Swagger or OpenAPI specifications and API documentation URLs. The public catalog contains more than 2,500 apps, including Slack, Gmail, MISP, Wazuh, Splunk, and Jira. Workflows can start through webhooks, schedules, subflows, or user input; extension triggers include AWS Lambda, AWS S3, Kafka, and Pub/Sub.

Deployment choices include self-hosted open source, self-hosted licensed software, Shuffle Cloud, and hybrid setups. Documented runtime architectures include Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, a cloud-hybrid local Orborus runner, and Kubernetes with Helm charts. Shuffle documents bcrypt password hashing, AES-256 encryption, tenant-controlled SAML/SSO and MFA, and a Bearer-token API. The free Scale plan is free and includes 2,000 app runs per month, with a hard limit, three tenants, and one location. Custom Python apps are not yet easy to create for Shuffle Cloud, though on-premises instances support local app hotloading.