What is StackStorm?
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.
StackStorm is a tool in the Remote Server Task Execution category of a tech stack.
StackStorm is an open source tool with 6.1K GitHub stars and 746 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to StackStorm's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses StackStorm?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use StackStorm in their tech stacks, including Labs, Demonware, and Content Square.
Developers
67 developers on StackShare have stated that they use StackStorm.
StackStorm Integrations
Git, Docker, MySQL, Slack, and GitLab are some of the popular tools that integrate with StackStorm. Here's a list of all 72 tools that integrate with StackStorm.
Pros of StackStorm
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StackStorm's Features
- 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.
- CLI, REST API + Python Bindings
StackStorm Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to StackStorm?
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
Rundeck
A self-service operations platform used for support tasks, enterprise job scheduling, deployment, and more.
Airflow
Use Airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. The Airflow scheduler executes your tasks on an array of workers while following the specified dependencies. Rich command lines utilities makes performing complex surgeries on DAGs a snap. The rich user interface makes it easy to visualize pipelines running in production, monitor progress and troubleshoot issues when needed.
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.