Overview

At Pindrop we use Rundeck to manage a lot of our operational toil. Rundeck has the option to send email when jobs are complete. We have Amazon’s Simple Email Service configured to send email as a trusted authority from Pindrop email accounts. Getting this configured in Rundeck was non-obvious, so I wanted to write a small article about what it takes to get this working.

Requirements

First you must configure AWS SES properly. That’s outside of the scope of this post, but generally you’ll need to set up some DNS records that prove you own the domain, and request a service limit increase from AWS Support to be able to actually send out email.