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Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by chine on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:42PM (#36142178)
cofounder/cto @ Onu here! Thanks for this feedback. We're working on a fully self-hosted version of Onu for this use case. Currently users can opt into self-hosting their scripts within their own cloud, but these scripts are still triggered by our hosted frontend (with some auth). Allowing users to self-host the Onu frontend is on our roadmap.

Re: bash scripts - we chose to focus on backend scripts so that engineers can utilize existing business logic since these tend to be helper functions & classes written in the backend language of their application. We're open to supporting bash scripts in the future - would this be something that would be helpful in your org?

Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by freedomben on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:50PM (#36142320)
Not GP, but without supporting bash scripts the tool isn't very useful to us
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by hunter2_ on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:21PM (#36142801)
At the risk of an extreme facepalm moment given the {obvious danger, code smell, worst practice, etc.} I still feel compelled to ask: don't the languages already supported offer an execution gateway (like the backtick operator or shell_exec() in php) such that an extremely lightweight wrapper would allow this to run your bash scripts?
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by PetahNZ on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:53PM (#36143312)
Not to mention most of my bash scripts are just wrappers around calling some other binary executables
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by xeromal on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:14PM (#36143654)
100% but I assume they are requesting first-class support.
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by slumos on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:32PM (#36146315)
Well, from the description I gathered the service was going to “TURN (existing) scripts INTO internal tools”. Not “provide a front-end to a framework where you write brand new code to integrate with your business logic”… The first mode seems to add a relatively large amount of value for relatively low effort given the management scripts that already exist. The second seems more like a framework only useful for processes you spend the effort to migrate. Was hoping to see a Rundeck competitor but got an Internal competitor instead?
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by mkoryak on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:09PM (#36144367)
People who write bash scripts well and people who write nodejs scripts are likely different groups that will want very different things from this service.
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by Too on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:08AM (#36147478)
If that’s all you want you might as well use Jenkins or a myriad of other similar tools. It’s free and self hosted.
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by MuffinFlavored on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:53PM (#36146437)
https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

You're kind of competing with this, though?