StackStorm

What do you like best?

This tool is awesome. It help you integrate any script you or others have made into a custom workflow or action or trigger. You can easily use the existing packs and action library of stackstorm and easily integrate with your own packs to extend functionality. Really easy to code ones understood. It is also open source.

What do you dislike?

2 things, one, the documentation that I read, had a couple of issues you had to resolve yourself. Might neeed some Linux knowledge.

Second, The workflows using ActionChains dont have direct branching mechanisms, like a if this then this kind of mechanism. You have a work around using Minstral and it works pretty fine after that.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Just go for it. Won't regret it.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Complete automation of VM creation and deletion and patching and endless other can be done. Also, while working, all the teams were making their own automation scripts. Instead of reusability of code, if some other team wanted to use a piece of code, they were constrained by the technology stack. Also, a lot of effort was wasted in rewriting the same code for other teams. Stackstrom improved the reusability of code! This way, a script written by someone in the network team could be used by someone else in the Database team.