uTask on Ubuntu 24.04

Overview

uTask is an open source automation engine from OVH for turning operational procedures into repeatable, self service tasks. You describe a process once as a YAML task template, with typed and validated inputs, steps that declare their dependencies, conditions, loops and schema checks on each step's output, and uTask executes it as a task with a complete history: it retries what can be retried, pauses for human validation where you ask it to, and records every step, who requested it and what it returned. Because a task is resumable, an interrupted run continues from where it stopped instead of starting over.

Builtin actions drive real systems, with HTTP calls, SSH commands, scripts, email, notifications and subtasks, so a template can reach out to the services a procedure actually touches. A web dashboard and a REST API expose those templates to the people and pipelines that need them, which suits platform and operations teams replacing scripts on someone's laptop with governed, self service automation, and anyone who wants an audit trail for the routine work that keeps a system running.

Common uses

• Turn operational runbooks into governed, self service tasks
• Automate multi step procedures with retries and human approval
• Keep an auditable, encrypted history of every automated run

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.