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Re: Show HN: Relay – Event-driven DevOps automation

#31

Post by tie_ » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 8:50 AM UTC

product1087 wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! PM for Relay here. Relay is an event-driven DevOps platform. It listens to events from 3rd party services like AWS, Datadog, PagerDuty, Jira and more to trigger simpler, smarter workflows that automate tedious tasks. A lot of existing solutions either require a lot of upfront DIY work (AWS Lambda or running your own script) or they weren’t built for DevOps teams (Zapier, IFTTT). Relay provides out-of-the…

(When) Is a self-hosted version coming? Does Relay use Lyra in some way, or is it a brand new engine?

The usual DevOps automation web systems like Jenkins, GoCD, Rundeck are all disappointing in one way or a dozen. Java, to start with. I'm desperate to see a modern, full-featured, self-hosted alternative.

Re: Show HN: Relay – Event-driven DevOps automation

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Post by product1087 » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 5:03 PM UTC

drinker wrote: post #30

This looks like it uses tekton pipelines and triggers under the hood.

Yep! Relay uses Tekton under the hood to execute the workflows. It actually knative and ambassador to execute the triggers. You can read more about the trigger system here: https://blog.getambassador.io/user-defined-webhooks-in-puppe...

Re: Show HN: Relay – Event-driven DevOps automation

#33

Post by product1087 » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 7:15 PM UTC

tie_ wrote: post #31

product1087 wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! PM for Relay here. Relay is an event-driven DevOps platform. It listens to events from 3rd party services like AWS, Datadog, PagerDuty, Jira and more to trigger simpler, smarter workflows that automate tedious tasks. A lot of existing solutions either require a lot of upfront DIY work (AWS Lambda or running your own script) or they weren’t built for DevOps teams (Zapier, IFTTT). Relay provides out-of-the…

(When) Is a self-hosted version coming? Does Relay use Lyra in some way, or is it a brand new engine? The usual DevOps automation web systems like Jenkins, GoCD, Rundeck are all disappointing in one way or a dozen. Java, to start with. I'm desperate to see a modern, full-featured, self-hosted alternative.

On-premises support is in progress. No release date yet. That said, would you need it to be fully self-hosted or would it be viable to have an on-premises agent?

Relay uses Tekton under the hood to run workflows and Knative to process triggers. What kinds of workflows are you thinking about running?

Re: Show HN: Relay – Event-driven DevOps automation

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Post by tie_ » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 10:17 PM UTC

product1087 wrote: post #33

tie_ wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(When) Is a self-hosted version coming? Does Relay use Lyra in some way, or is it a brand new engine? The usual DevOps automation web systems like Jenkins, GoCD, Rundeck are all disappointing in one way or a dozen. Java, to start with. I'm desperate to see a modern, full-featured, self-hosted alternative.

On-premises support is in progress. No release date yet. That said, would you need it to be fully self-hosted or would it be viable to have an on-premises agent? Relay uses Tekton under the hood to run workflows and Knative to process triggers. What kinds of workflows are you thinking about running?

Fully self hosted is a requirement in my case. Letting an agent that's essentially externally controlled would be a hard sell in corporate environment.

In my case, I need very simple workflows that e.g. run Ansible playbooks, or do non-urgent monitoring, bookkeeping, and essentially trigger scripts. I usually need a single step - no serious need for a pipeline/workflow even. Cron job and manual triggering would be enough to cover the base usage (though git hook would be next on the list).

The more "convoluted" part that I'd want to see is a capability of jobs controlling themselves (e.g. job disabling itself or others on error), jobs as code, flexible notification system, and make it easy to deschedule/disable jobs in bulk, easy to extend with plugins.

Granted, Rundeck has most of what I need, but the implementation is Java, which also includes its SSH functionality.