StackStorm


StackStorm is an open source event-driven platform for runbook automation. It supports the Infrastructure as Code approach to DevOps automation and has been compared with SaltStack and Ansible, it primarily focuses on doing things or running workflows based on events. StackStorm is comparable to IFTTT 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.
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. It leverages a micro-service based architecture together with StackStorm to create an event-driven automation system.

History

StackStorm was founded by Evan Powell, who had previous entrepreneurial successes at Clarus Systems and Nexenta and Dmitri Zimine, who worked on the first wave of operation automation as chief architect at Opalis. With initial funding by XSeed Capital, StackStorm came out of stealth on May, 6, 2014 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. While StackStorm platform was initially focused on the general DevOps automation, it extended to networking after the company was acquired by Brocade in 2016. In 2017 StackStorm transitioned to Extreme Networks as part of Brocade’s data center networking business acquisition. 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