StackStorm Testimonials

“To really get the most value out of DevOps, you should not just be thinking about how to deploy the application, but also be thinking about how to optimize the application beyond deployment. Being able to give the operations teams tools to diagnose issues, remediate issues, identify and respond to day to day events in real time- that's where DevOps can be really powerful and that's where we've leveraged a lot of the technology in StackStorm. I think the moment we realized the power of StackStorm was when we were looking at all the problems event driven automaton could address and we realized how powerful it could be to bring all of our different tools and systems together. Because StackStorm already comes with so many integration points, we can leverage StackStorm as the glue between alot of our newer DevOps and automation tools, as well as our more traditional OSS and BSS tools. One of the examples we look at with Day 2 automation is actually being able to respond to security incidents. As an example, we have an automation script with StackStorm that says whenever a new server is deployed in the cloud, we can actually go and run a security audit of that environment. That allows our security teams to be a lot more responsive. So instead of running a scan let's say once a day or once a week, actually we can respond immediately to any changes in the infrastructure. Then the workflow will actually go and notify the appropriate teams as well. Really it's kind of looking at event driven automation as not just something focused on development practices or application deployments, but actually impacts teams like the security team, information security, storage and networking.”

"Encore currently uses StackStorm to drive automation across our entire business. Our initial use case was server provisioning. We transitioned our provisiong platform over to StackStorm and realized a 4x speed-up in provisioning time. StackStorm also has increased our developer productivity dramatically. By breaking down our provisioning process into discrete actions we're now able to develop reusable components that can be tied together in workflows. Also, the interface for DevOps engineers to interact with StackStorm allows us to quickly and effectively localize problems within our deployments in a matter of seconds. This has reduced our time to debug and fix issues dramatically. Shortly into the process of transitioning our server provisioning to StackStorm we realized it's power is much larger than just a better and more productive provisioning system, it is a full fleged automation platform that we could use for many other tasks. We've extended StackStorm to automate: network diagnostics, website scraping, credential validation, maintenance window configuration, firewall rule analysis, power metrics scraping, and much more. StackStorm has proven so useful as the "glue" between all of our disperate infrastructure systems, we're now in the process of using it to integrate our business systems as well.”