March 3, 2015
by James Fryman
Time flies when you’re having fun, or better yet, when you’re shipping new features! We are pleased to announce for general release version 0.8 of StackStorm, our biggest release to date! This version contains a ton of platform improvements, user feature requests, new packs and much more.
Web UI
Yes, that’s right! We are pleased to announce our inaugural release of the StackStorm Web UI. We have had the UI in a limited beta release for about 2 months now, and have been responding to feedback as it comes in. This is easily one of our more common user requests, so we’re excited that it’s now ready to start sharing with the world.
With the brand new UI, we now have three views to consume: Actions, History, and Rules.
PALO ALTO, Calif. – March 3, 2015 – StackStorm, a provider of event-driven automation software, today announced that Rackspace will demonstrate its use of the newly launched StackStorm 0.8 to automate autoscaling and continuous integration (CI) and delivery (CD) deployments at Rackspace::Solve on March 4 in San Francisco, Calif. StackStorm 0.8, which has been released today, includes a significant number of platform improvements, new integrations, and feature requests including the first release of an intuitive and 100 percent open source graphical user interface.
“Rackspace’s use and advocacy of StackStorm validates our mission to provide users with event-driven automation software that integrates well into their environments so that the rest of us can achieve the massive boosts in agility enjoyed by the web scale operators,” said Evan Powell, co-founder and CEO of StackStorm. “For example, Rackspace is using StackStorm 0.8 to deliver a unique approach to autoscaling that embraces the heterogeneity of enterprise environments.”
Enhancements of StackStorm 0.8 include:
February 25, 2015
by Evan Powell
We are really excited to share that OpenStack co-founder and managed cloud company Rackspace will start publicly talking about their use of StackStorm at Rackspace::Solve March 4th in San Francisco.
We’ve developed a good working relationship with Rackspace. In fact, Eric Brinkman, product manager of the Rackspace DevOps Automation Service and Caleb Groom, director of Cloud Product Engineering at Rackspace, will be demonstrating StackStorm on March 4 at the Rackspace::Solve event, highlighting the use of StackStorm for autoscaling and continuous integration and continuous deployment. Eric and/or Caleb will then join us on March 5 in our Online Meetup, during which James Fryman of StackStorm will run through the autoscaling pipeline in more detail.
February 18, 2015
by Evan Powell
This post originally appeared on VentureBeat.
DevOps is hot. Google Trends confirms that awareness of the term has exploded over the last eighteen months, and DevOps gurus like Gene Kim and Patrick Dubois — who is credited with coining the term DevOps — are becoming even more widely read and consulted by a range of companies. Even so-called “legacy” companies, such as Target, Ford, and Johnson and Johnson are embracing and experimenting with DevOps.
And yet, as discussed in my last article, the barriers to enterprises achieving the kind of productivity boost that DevOps adoption promises are considerable and often non-obvious. These non-obvious barriers have confounded even the companies now acknowledged as the most productive creators and operators of software in history: companies like Facebook, eBay/PayPal, Amazon Web Services, Apple, and others.
How have the most successful operators overcome the barriers to DevOps adoption and achieved the sort of 10-20x, or even 50x boosts in agility, that have allowed them to innovate at a higher level than competitors and even change the world?
February 18, 2015
by Manas Kelshikar
Another busy week is behind us. Follow along this post to see what we have been up to.
GPG Pack
Pack which allows integration with GnuPG. The actions supported by this pack include:
February 17, 2015
by Evan Powell
So SCALE 13x is this week. I’m looking forward to it for a bunch of reasons.
First and foremost, I’m looking forward to fellow Stormer James Fryman holding forth on lessons learned from his time at GitHub, StackStorm, Puppet and elsewhere this Friday at 1:00 pm. James is speaking around the world on this and related topics (hello ChatOps!) and will be great.
Also, we at StackStorm gave our first public talk as a company last year when my co-founder Dmitri Zimine talked about OpenStack and DevOps from a VMware administrator’s perspective. He’s since been pinged by a variety of folks who wanted him to deliver some flavor of that talk. As he’s helped build vSphere – specifically running vSphere client for years before founding StackStorm – and now as our CTO at StackStorm which is being rapidly adopted in larger DevOps shops for event driven automation – he’s a great speaker on the subject.
February 17, 2015
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–StackStorm, a provider of event-driven automation software, today announced it will present on “DevOps Day 2: People and Processes” in the La Jolla Room at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport during SCALE 13x on February 20. James Fryman of StackStorm, previously at GitHub, will discuss challenges and best practices for doing DevOps successfully.
StackStorm will also be at booth #76 throughout the conference and is sponsoring the SCALE 13x DevOps Day track.
“DevOps is now seen as a competitive weapon across many industries, as software ‘eats everything,’” said Fryman. “Doing DevOps successfully involves a shift in company culture and more. I’m looking forward to discussing ways we see the incredible customer responsiveness promised by DevOps actually being achieved through culture change, tooling, workflow collaboration, ChatOps and more. We will also touch on some all too common anti-patterns.”
February 6, 2015
by Tomaz Muraus
Another busy week is behind us. Follow along this post to see what we have been up to.
JMX Pack
Java JMX pack now includes a new invoke_method action. This action allows you to invoke arbitrary MBean method that is exposed over a JMX interface.
February 2, 2015
by Tomaz Muraus
PyCon has historically been the largest annual gathering of Python users and developers, having been attended by more than 2,500 people last year. The conference is a great opportunity for people with varying backgrounds (from beginners to seasoned Python veterans) to learn more about Python, the community and the ecosystem, as well as meet and talk with the developers and contributors of many popular Python libraries and frameworks.
This year’s PyCon is located at the same great place as last year’s event — Montreal, Canada.
February 2, 2015
by Manas Kelshikar
This past week at StackStorm we pushed out changes to the core StackStorm platform and added more integration to packs in the community repo, all while trying to solve many real-world problems. Following a push into the CI/CD use case, we are now jumping into the application monitoring and remediation space — check out this awesome guest post about forming SkyNet.