Routine Ops vs StackStorm

StackStorm vs Routine Ops: What are the differences?

StackStorm: Open Source IFTTT for Ops: event-driven automation, security responses, auto-remediation with workflow engine & ChatOps. StackStorm is a platform for integration and automation across services and tools. It ties together your existing infrastructure and application environment so you can more easily automate that environment -- with a particular focus on taking actions in response to events; Routine Ops: Schedule recurring tasks by role. Execute. Iterate. Improve. Build your organization's playbook with Routine Ops. Built for teams. Free for individuals.

StackStorm and Routine Ops can be primarily classified as "Remote Server Task Execution" tools.

Some of the features offered by StackStorm are:

• Automations tie events to actions you’d like to take, using a rules engine and, if you want, comprehensive workflow. Automations are your operational patterns summarized as code.
• StackStorm automations work either by starting with your existing scripts – just add simple meta data – or by authoring the automations within StackStorm.
• Automations are the heart of StackStorm – they allow you to share operational patterns, boost productivity, and automate away the routine.

On the other hand, Routine Ops provides the following key features:

• Schedule tasks to recur hourly through yearly, with flexible scheduling
• Assign the same task to multiple roles, with different frequencies. Trust, but verify
• Create custom checklists to collect data from your team with a well-defined cadence

StackStorm is an open source tool with 3.9K GitHub stars and 511 GitHub forks. Here's a link to StackStorm's open source repository on GitHub.