StackStorm

StackStorm (abbreviation: ST2) is an OpenSource event-driven platform for runbook automation. It supports the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach to DevOps automation and has been compared with SaltStack and Ansible[2], it primarily focuses on doing things or running workflows based on events. StackStorm is comparable to IFTTT[3] or Zapier in providing a way to connect many different services together in coherent applets or workflows that begin based on defined events or triggers.

StackStorm
Initial release3 November 2014 (2014-11-03)
Stable release
3.2.0 / 27 April 2020 (2020-04-27)[1]
Repositorygithub.com/StackStorm
Written inPython
Operating systemLinux, Unix-like
Available inEnglish
TypeConfiguration management and Infrastructure as Code
LicenseApache 2.0
Websitestackstorm.com

While Stackstorm has been used to automate workflows in many industries, a particularly interesting application is the Arteria project that provides components to automate analysis and data-management tasks at next-generation sequencing core-facilities[4]. It leverages a micro-service based architecture together with StackStorm to create an event-driven automation system[5].

History

StackStorm was founded by Evan Powell, who had previous entrepreneurial successes at Clarus Systems and Nexenta[6] and Dmitri Zimine[7], who worked on the first wave of operation automation as chief architect at Opalis (acquired by Microsoft, became System Center Orchestrator)[8]. With initial funding by XSeed Capital, StackStorm came out of stealth on May, 6, 2014[9] to introduce a private beta program for the company’s first product. StackStorm offered IT departments the capability to automatically trigger actions and drive behaviors across the infrastructure and separate systems with scriptable processes.[10] While StackStorm platform was initially focused on the general DevOps automation, it extended to networking after the company was acquired by Brocade in 2016[11]. In 2017 StackStorm transitioned to Extreme Networks as part of Brocade’s data center networking business acquisition[12]. StackStorm continues to be an OpenSource project, supported by Extreme Networks, which also offers the Extreme Workflow Composer as the commercial product built on top of the StackStorm platform[13]


See also

References
  1. "StackStorm Changelog". Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  2. Shaw, Anthony (17 May 2017). "Ansible v.s. Salt (SaltStack) v.s. StackStorm".
  3. Gajic, Jody (14 Aug 2016). "IFTTT For The Network, Awesome!".
  4. Dahlberg, Johan; Hermansson, Johan; Sturlaugsson, Steinar; Larsson, Pontus (2017-11-06). "Arteria: An automation system for a sequencing core facility". bioRxiv: 214858. doi:10.1101/214858.
  5. "Beyond Cron and Bash - presentation at the Conference of Software Research Engineering in Manchester 2016". The Arteria Project. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  6. Inc., CloudByte. "DevOps and Software-defined Storage Pioneer Evan Powell Joins CloudByte as Chairman". www.prnewswire.com.
  7. "StackStorm - Crunchbase". Crunchbase.
  8. "StackStorm Leads Third Wave of Operations Automation Delivering DevOps Best Practices to Enterprises".
  9. "StackStorm Out of Stealth to Give DevOps True Data Center Automation". 6 May 2014.
  10. Yegulalp, Serdar. "Python-powered StackStorm sets scripts for event-triggered automation".
  11. Haranas, Mark (29 March 2016). "Brocade Acquisition Of DevOps Automation Startup StackStorm Seen As Smart Move By Partners".
  12. Cooney, Michael. "Extreme swallows Brocade's data center networking business for $55M".
  13. "Extreme networks Workflow Composer Powered by StackStorm - IDG Connect". www.idgconnect.com.
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