How to run only specific task within a Job in Rundeck? - rundeck

I have a job in Rundeck with many tasks within, but when some task fails I have to duplicate de Job, remove all the other tasks, save it and then run this new reduced copy of my original job.
Is there a way to run only specific tasks without having to do all this workaround?
Thanks in advance.

AFAIK there is no way to do that.
As a workaround, you can simply add options for every step in your Rundeck job, so for instances, if you have 3 script steps in your job, you can add 3 options named: skip_step_1, skip_step_2 and skip_test_3 and then assign true to the ones that have finished successfully and false to the one that has failed in the first execution. And for every script step, you can add a condition whether to run it or not.
A smiliar feature request is already proposed to the rundeck team :
Optionally execute workflow step based on job options

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How to run multiple Copy Files task in a Azure DevOps Release pipeline simultaneously with Custom Conditions?

I am using Azure DevOps Server 2020 and I have a release pipeline which has around 21 copy file tasks in it to copy the output of multiple microservices to different target paths and this takes almost around 23 mins to complete the release pipeline.
I want to optimize the release pipeline and save some time and thus I am thinking of running all the copy task simultaneously.
Under the copy tasks in Control Options section, I see Run this task option is available where we do have the option to define custom conditions but I am not sure which custom conditions do I need to define exactly so that all my copy tasks gets executed parallelly.
Could anyone please let me know what custom conditions will allow all the copy task to get executed in one go?
Currently it is not possible to have tasks run in parallel. It has been raised as a suggestion here but the feature hasn't been implemented
How to run multiple Copy Files task in a Azure DevOps Release pipeline simultaneously with Custom Conditions?
Just as TheWinterCoder pointed, Currently it is not possible to have tasks run in parallel.
But, as a workaround, you could divide the replication task into several different jobs and make the jobs run in parallel:
This requires you to have multiple agents available in the local agent pool:

How to run two agents in parallel in Azure DevOps?

In this release pipeline, I have two tasks: one is running the kubectl command, and I need it to keep running while I run the second task. After researching for a while, I know that parallel tasks are not available in Azure DevOps, so I tried with multiple agents. However I could not make it work.
May I know which part am I missing?
My current config looks like this:
And in each of the agents, I selected "Multi-Agent" on parallelism with number of 2.
But it seems not the one I want.
What I want is, run the first job with kubectl port-forward command. And keep it running while second job start running. After second job Run script is finished, then the first job can end.
May I know in Azure DevOps is there a way to achieve this?
Thank you so much.
The easiest would be actually to use seprate stages. But if you want to use single stage you can do it as follows:
Define variable like this:
Configure parallelism on the job:
And then define custom condition on the tasks:
One task should have eq(variables['Script'], 'one') and the other eq(variables['Script'], 'two')
You will get two agents runs your jobs but in each job will actually do only one task:

Job dependencies in Talend Administration Center with file based trigger

i'm trying to set up a dependency between two jobs in the Talend Administration Center. When the first job is finished the second job should start. I don't want to implement it by tRunJob component in one of the jobs. That's why i have set up a file trigger. At the end of the first job, the trigger creates a file in a specified directory. Im not sure at which root directory the file would be searched. I've set up the path but it doesn't start the trigger. Does someone have any experience with that? Or is there an other possibility to set up such an dependency?
Cheers.
Your solution is correct but valid only outside TAC, and we need TAC mainly for job scheduling and for managing dependecy, so you have to develop your jobs separately and independently, then create your tasks in TAC and a execution plan to schedule your tasks.

Workflow scheduling in Informatica

My requirement is:
Workflow should run daily at 2pm. Workflow has been scheduled to run at 2pm
We have lookup on master tables. Records with IDs that are not present in the master tables will get rejected.
These new IDs have to be loaded into the master tables manually and then the workflow has to be re-run.
Daily the same thing happens.
My question is -
Is it possible to schedule a workflow to run twice every day(one for the first run, the other to run after the master table is updated)?
If No, can I manually start a scheduled workflow? Will it make the workflow unscheduled?
Please, Can any one help me with this?
Informatica's scheduler is a weak spot. I guess using two copies of the same workflow with different schedules would be the easiest solution.
Got a solution for my problem.
Once a workflow is scheduled, even if a particular session has to be re-run manually, whole workflow has be run from the workflow manager.
If that particular session is run manually, scheduling will be gone.
So always run the workflow instead of a session, so that scheduling will remain.

Running parallel jobs in Jenkins

I'm using Jenkins for my builds, and I wrote some test scripts that I need to run after the compilation of the build.
I want to save some time, so I have to run the test scripts parallel. How can I do that?
EDIT: ok, I understand know that I need a separate Job for each test (for 4 tests I need 4 jobs, right?)
So, I did that, and via the parent job I ran this jobs. (using "build other projects" plugin).
But I didn't managed to aggregate the results (using aggregate downstream test results). The parent job exits before the downstream jobs were finished.
What shall I do?
Thanks.
You can use multi-job plugin. This would allow you to run multiple jobs in parallel and the parent job would wait for the sub jobs to be completed. The parent jobs status can be determined by the sub jobs status.
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Multijob+Plugin
Jenkins doesn't really allow you to run things in parallel. You can however split your build into different jobs to achieve this. It would look like this.
Job to compile the source runs.
Jobs that run the tests are triggered by the completion of the compilation and start running. They copy compilation results from the previous job into their workspaces.
This is a big kludgy though. The better alternative would be to parallelise within the scripts that run the tests, i.e. you run a single script and this then runs the tests in parallel. If this is not possible, you'll have to split into different jobs though.
Have you looked at the Jenkins JOIN Plugin? I have not used it but I believe it is what you are attempting to accomplish.
- Mike
Actually you can but you will need some coding behind.
In my case, I have parallel test execution on jenkins.
1) Create a small job with parameters that is supposed to do a test run with a small suite
2) Edit this job to run on a list of slaves (where you have the proper environment)
3) Edit this build to allow concurrent builds
And now the hard part.
4) Create a small java program for computing the list of parameters for each job to run.
5) Iterate trough the list and launch a new Jenkins job on a new thread.
Put a Thread.sleep(5000) between runs in order to avoid communication errors
6) Join the threads
At the end of each job, I send the results to a shared location in order to perform some reporting at the end of all tests.
For starting a jenkins job with parameters use CLI
I intend to make my code as generic as possible and publish it if anyone else will need it.
You can use https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+Flow+Plugin with code like this
parallel (
// job 1, 2 and 3 will be scheduled in parallel.
{ build("job1") },
{ build("job2") },
{ build("job3") }
)
You can use any one of the followings:
Multijob plugin
Build Flow plugin