Retool is amazing for building dashboards and internal tools fast, but I’m curious what folks are using outside of Retool to handle backend automation.
Things like:
Scheduled or event-driven tasks
Cross-server orchestration
System updates / cron job replacements
File operations or log cleanup
Monitoring + self-healing scripts
Do you use plain scripts? Or plug in tools like Ansible, Jenkins, or something else? Would love to hear how you’ve scaled your backend workflow stack alongside Retool!
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Have you had a look at Workflows? Workflows can do pretty much everything you just mentioned. My company is s both a Retool agency partner and a certified make.com partner and I can confirm Retool's workflows can do almost everything make.com can do.
I’ve been down that road and tried a bunch of stuff. Here’s what’s been working well for us:
Ansible for server config and bulk updates
Jenkins for CI/CD-style logic and container builds
PowerShell (with scheduled tasks on Windows servers)
And recently started using Attune – it’s great for orchestrating multi-step shell or PowerShell scripts across a bunch of machines.