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StackStorm

StackStorm/st2

An open-source alternative to Ansible Tower, Rundeck and Salt.

StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html (from the repository)

Stars: 6,550
Licence: Apache-2.0
Last push: 2026-10-13
Written in: Python

Source on GitHub ↗Project website ↗

Is it alive?

Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.

Activity

Active

Last push 15 days ago

Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.

Releases

Older

v3.9.0, 10 months ago

Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.

Issues

66% closed

555 open · 1,081 closed

Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.

Momentum

+2 in 9 days

6,550 stars

Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.

What a business may do with it

PermissiveApache-2.0

Use, change and sell it, including inside a closed product. Keep the copyright notice.

This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.

Run it yourself

StackStorm’s README does not show a docker run, docker compose up or helm install in a code block, so this page will not guess one. It may be a desktop app, a library, or documented on its website.

StackStorm’s own install instructions ↗

Where this page comes from

Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
The pairing with Ansible Tower, Rundeck and 1 more and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data