Accelerating DevOps with StackGen: Simplifying Infrastructure Management and Boosting Efficiency

For many DevOps teams, managing infrastructure feels like a constant battle. Between manual configurations, misaligned teams, and slow deployments, it's hard to stay ahead of the curve. But what if you could eliminate those challenges and move faster with more confidence? That’s exactly what StackGen does.

In this blog post, we're going to walk through a previously recorded CNCF on-demand webinar hosted by Cesar Rodriguez, StackGen’s VP of Engineering. In the webinar, Cesar dives into how StackGen simplifies infrastructure management and helps DevOps teams accelerate delivery without compromising on security or compliance.

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Simplifying DevOps with StackGen

1. Infrastructure from Code (IFC):
StackGen automates the creation of infrastructure directly from your code, removing the need for manual scripting. This ensures faster, more reliable deployments and eliminates human errors.

2. Visual Deployment Topology:
With StackGen’s visual topology, you can see how your cloud resources interact in real time, making troubleshooting and collaboration easier than ever. No more digging through YAML files.

3. Declarative and Modular Infrastructure:
StackGen makes infrastructure management easier with reusable, composable modules that ensure consistency across environments while reducing redundancies and errors.

Move Fast Without Breaking Things

With StackGen, your cloud environment is optimized, compliant, and ready to scale. Key features include:

• Automated Infrastructure Generation:
  StackGen scans your application code and generates the required infrastructure configurations, ensuring everything is aligned with your software’s needs.

• Proactive Policy Enforcement:
  Policies are enforced at the start to ensure compliance, reducing risk and manual work later.

• Real-time Collaboration and Monitoring:
  The visual canvas allows seamless collaboration between teams, reducing bottlenecks and aligning development speed with operational stability.

Demo in Action

During the webinar, Cesar shows StackGen in action with a demo of an example Python-based serverless app, RetroBoard. Here’s what was covered:

• Code Analysis and Infrastructure Generation:
  StackGen analyzes your code and generates a detailed architecture diagram of the resources and services your app uses.

• Customizing Infrastructure:
  The intuitive canvas lets you add or adjust resources while StackGen checks for policy violations, alerting you to issues in real time.

• Exporting and Integration:
  Once you’re satisfied with the architecture, you can export the generated Terraform code or integrate it into your CI/CD pipeline.

Modernizing Legacy Infrastructure

StackGen isn’t just for new apps. If you have existing HCP Terraform templates or cloud resources, StackGen can modernize and align them with best practices, giving you full visibility and control over your environment.

Bridging Organizational Gaps

StackGen helps bridge the gap between development and operations teams, providing a shared understanding of infrastructure. This eliminates back-and-forth feedback loops and improves efficiency across the board.

StackGen also transforms how teams manage infrastructure, making it simpler, faster, and more secure. By automating infrastructure creation, ensuring compliance, and enabling real-time collaboration, StackGen empowers DevOps teams to innovate without worrying about infrastructure complexities.

To see StackGen in action, check out the YouTube video in this post to learn how it can streamline your DevOps process and optimize your cloud infrastructure. Visit stackgen.com to dive deeper into our solutions and get started today.