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.