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I played a bit now on cloud and was able to run things in powershell and create a custom GUI form, connect button to script and show results in the text area.

I didn't succeed to return all output from the powershell, just last value. The only way I got it is by using control "job log". This one however has some custom header of windmill (job guid etc.), so is there any way to show a raw log ?

I generally do not like no-code tools, but first impression of this mix of no-code and code looks intriguing and app feels very nice overall, with great UI and easy to understand features. Good job.

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So bash and powershell are a bit special since they are the only one that are not implemented as using a main function and thus have no result to return.

However, we had that feedback a few time so there is a trick. If you write your result in ./result.json, we will process it as the result of your powershell script.

Final question.

Am I able to install it on Windows? I need windows specific things, such as powershell remoting. One of the good things about Rundeck is that server acts as worker, and it runs on Windows without problems (Installing it is as simple as choco install rundeck). I can then use all windows tools, run applications (including GUI ones) etc. just the same as if I run them outside rundeck, using OTB powershell.

Yes, the binary can be compiled to windows and run there as a worker but it will need a connection to the main database. Not sure how currently rundeck does it ?

Rundeck is a java web app, using (by default) embeddable database or file system for configuration and data (you could use mainstream databases, but I never needed that).

Regarding "Connection to the main database" as far as my use case is, all the settings could live in the file system json files or sqlite if that makes installation trivial for the use case of being very good job scheduler with options to create great jobs UI, logs and management of small number of users (which is a fairly common scenario).

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