Autotasker

Autotasker is a small server-side job runner and scheduler.

If you have a small infrastructure and you want to run task or small workflows and you want to supervise via a small web GUI, then autotasker is probably for you.

Autotasker free software licenced under GPLv3.

Philosophy and architecture

Unix-like
Can be configured with a single YAML file.
Light web GUI
Sqlite DB

Getting started

Create a config file to define your tasks.
Deploy the server with docker or using git clone + cargo install binary + systemd service.
Enjoy!

Features roadmap

List the tasks availables.
Run tasks in background.
Store the logs and tasks runs in a sqlite DB.
Trigger task via webhook, with a webhook token and debouncing.
Schedule tasks (CRON-like).
Run task command via ssh
OpenMetrics exporter to alert when a task failed.
External alerting when a task failed.
Content negociation with JSON or HTML.
OAuth2 support for admin.

Vocabulary

Task is a configured command to be run.
Executor is the part of the code that handle task run. A new executor is spawned for each TaskRun.
TaskRun refer to a singular task run.

Deploy & Usage

Standard

You can use standard rust and cargo command to run the server. You can start the daemon with autotasker --config /path/to/config --database /path/to/database.db.

Requirements

If you wish to use the remote host ssh feature, you must have openssh-client installed on the host.

Docker

Build the alpine image:

just docker-build

Initialize the db:

just docker-init-db

Run with config and db volume:

just docker-run

Getting started on development

This project use a justfile. just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands.

Built with

Axum for web server.
Tera for templating.
Sqlx to interact with Sqlite.
Sqlite for storing state and logs.

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