[HN Gopher] StackStorm: Event-driven automation
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       StackStorm: Event-driven automation
        
       Author : gjvc
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2022-11-24 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | linsomniac wrote:
       | I played around with StackStorm maybe 5 years ago, but in the end
       | I decided to use RunDeck instead. https://www.rundeck.com/. Used
       | that for a few years but ended up abandoning it, but am thinking
       | about resurrecting it, it was pretty good.
        
       | debarshri wrote:
       | Stackstorm has been around since 2014 [1].
       | 
       | Rundeck is another closest competitors that worth mentioning.
       | Things have evolved a lot in the ops space since then.
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       | With advent of container orchestration of the operational
       | automation pieces have also moved to the orchestration layer.
       | There have been quite some new tools in the space I have been
       | tracking for instance Fylament [2] which got acquired by netapp,
       | blinkops etc. Post rendezvous with this domain, some bigger
       | problems most of the major framework tools like this have is
       | that, it is very hard to get started. There are lot of pre-
       | requisites given the nature of the ops automation, this leads to
       | a problem where it is very hard to active a customer. Secondly,
       | these frameworks are always competing with it is bash/python
       | script deployed with some container orchestration or some
       | cronjobs. I have also seen people write CRDs and reconciliation
       | loops in k8s doing lot of the tasks these automation frameworks
       | would do.
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StackStorm
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       | [2] https://www.netapp.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-
       | rel-2022...
        
       | lgas wrote:
       | This is interesting. It's like IFTTT for ops. The list of
       | adopters is intriguing too. I poked around their blog for a few
       | minutes and it seemed to be targeted more at people who have
       | already adopted StackStorm. It would be great to be able to read
       | some success stories from the people using it.
        
         | armab wrote:
        
       | nyellin wrote:
       | Nice to see this on here.
       | 
       | I founded a startup that does something similar for Kubernetes:
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       | http://github.com/robusta-dev/robusta
       | 
       | We've seen a bit of StackStorm too with our users!
        
       | candiddevmike wrote:
       | If you're looking for a similar, commercially supported product,
       | checkout RackN Digital Rebar: https://www.rackn.com. Similar
       | concept, vastly easier deployment/HA/GitOps/multi-tenancy story.
        
       | throwawaaarrgh wrote:
       | I love the design, but it just seems mostly abandoned. Maybe it
       | needs better marketing?
        
         | tempest_ wrote:
         | In what sense?
         | 
         | The repo linked here appears to have contributions merged in
         | that last month and it has a bunch of active pull requests.
        
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