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.”

"We decided to use StackStorm as our underlying engine to host and execute our runbooks. StackStorm was chosen because of following key attributes: Alignment with the problem we aimed to solve (event driven runbook automation) The fact that it was open source allowed us to review code and architecture quality in detail. Very pluggable architecture meant we can integrate it within Netflix environment easily. Great and responsive team backing the product Choosing StackStorm allowed us to quickly bootstrap without reinventing the wheel. This allowed us to focus on Netflix specific features and integrations and reduced our time to market significantly."