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Still your AWS, but 97% easier

Stacktape makes DevOps simple, allowing developers to deploy and run full-stack applications on AWS entirely on their own. Production-ready in minutes, not months.

!NOTE Stacktape is NOT open-source. This repository only includes helpful resources for Stacktape users.

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Before

Option 1 - PaaS 1.0

:white_check_mark: Easy to use

:white_check_mark: Great Dev Experience

:x: Expensive

:x: Limited capabilities & flexibility

Option 2 - In-house DevOps team

:white_check_mark: Flexible

:white_check_mark: Unlimited capabilities

:x: Requires hiring DevOps experts

:x: Long time to production

After (with Stacktape)

:white_check_mark: Usable by developers

:white_check_mark: Great Dev Experience

:white_check_mark: Cost efficient

:white_check_mark: Flexible & Powerful

:white_check_mark: Up to $100,000 in free AWS Activate credits

How it works

1. Configure your stack

Stacktape is an IaC (Infrastructure as a code) tool.

The configuration is simple, declarative and can be written using YAML, JSON, Javascript, Typescript or Python.

Example stacktape.yml configuration file

serviceName: my-application
resources:
  mainGateway:
    type: http-api-gateway
  apiServer:
    type: multi-container-workload
    properties:
      resources:
        cpu: 2
        memory: 2048
      scaling:
        minInstances: 1
        maxInstances: 5
      containers:
        - name: api-container
          imageConfig:
            filePath: src/main.ts
          environment:
            - name: DB_ENDPOINT
              value: $ResourceParam('mainDatabase', 'endpoint')
          events:
            - type: http-api-gateway
              properties:
                method: GET
                path: /{proxy+}
                containerPort: 3000
                httpApiGatewayName: mainGateway
  mainDatabase:
    type: relational-database
    properties:
      engine:
        type: aurora-postgresql-serverless
      credentials:
        masterUserName: $Secret('dbSecret.username')
        masterUserPassword: $Secret('dbSecret.password')

2. Deploy your application

Deployment is done using a single command.

Stacktape handles the rest:

Packages your source code
Scans and resolves dependencies
Configures and provisions infrastructure resources
Deploys your application to AWS

*Using CLI*

$ stacktape deploy --stage production --region eu-west-1
[SUCCESS] Loading configuration done in 0.03 sec.
[SUCCESS] Fetching stack data done in 0.63 sec.
[SUCCESS] Packaging workloads
 └ apiserver-apicontainer: done in 18.57 sec. Image size: 85 MB.
[SUCCESS] Uploading deployment artifacts done in 6.53 sec.
[SUCCESS] Validating template done in 0.42 sec.
[INFO] Deploying stack my-application-production...
[INFO] Deploying infrastructure resources. Finished: 9/35.

*Using SDK*

import { Stacktape } from 'stacktape';
const stacktape = new Stacktape({
  region: 'eu-west-1',
  stage: 'production'
});
stacktape.deploy({
  config: {
    serviceName: 'my-application',
    resources: [...your resources...]
  }
});

3. Iterate on your application

Stacktape offers an easy and efficient way to develop your apps.

When developing containers, Stacktape will:

Build and run your container locally with the same permissions it has when running in the cloud
Resolve and inject referenced environment variables (for example database connection strings)
Expose configured ports

$ stacktape cw:run-local --resourceName apiServer
[SUCCESS] Loading configuration done in 0.03 sec.
[SUCCESS] Fetching stack data done in 0.63 sec.
[SUCCESS] Packaging workloads
 └ apiServer-apicontainer: done in 3.3 sec. Image size: 85 MB.
[SUCCESS] Container started successfully. (type 'rs' + enter to rebuild and restart)
[INFO] Exposed ports: http://localhost:3000

Api container started successfully. Listening on PORT 3000.

All the infrastructure components you'll need

One tool for all your apps. From simple websites to data processing pipelines.

Lambda functions

Short-lived serverless functions able to quickly scale up to 1000s of parallel executions with pay-per-use pricing.

Container workloads

Fully managed, auto-scalable and easy-to-use runtime for your Docker containers.

Batch jobs

Fully managed, on-demand runtime for your container jobs with pay-per-use pricing. Supports GPU compute resources.

SQL databases

Fully managed relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, MariaDb, etc.) with support for clustering, failover & more.

MongoDb clusters

Fully managed MongoDb Atlas clusters. Automatically deployed to your AWS account and managed within your stack.

DynamoDB

Fully managed, serverless, highly-available and massively scalable key-value datastore.

Api Gateways

Fully managed, serverless HTTP Api Gateway with pay-per-request pricing.

Load balancers

Fully managed, Application (L7) Load balancer.

Storage buckets

Durable and highly-available object storage with pay-per-use pricing.

Authentication

Fully managed sign-ups, logins and authorization for your users with pay-per-use pricing.

Redis clusters

Fully managed, redis-compatible in-memory data store with sub-millisecond latency.

Upstash Redis

Fully managed, serverless Redis with pay-as-you-go billing.

Upstash Kafka

Fully managed, serverless Kafka with pay-as-you-go billing for event-streaming solutions.

CDN

Globally distributed (edge) cache for your Buckets, Load balancers and API Gateways.

Domains & certificates

Auto-provisioned certificates and domain management for your Buckets, Load balancers and API Gateways.

Secrets

Fully managed secret store for your credentials, API keys and other sensitive data.

Comparison

Serverless

Sadly, the simplicity disappears when your application needs more than just functions, and you're left with the responsibility for configuring, managing and integrating other infrastructure components.

Stacktape's advantages

More power - Besides lambda functions, Stacktape allows you to deploy container workloads, batch jobs, SQL and NoSQL databases, API Gateways, Load balancers and much more.
Optimized build process - Stacktape supports zero-config, heavily optimized parallel builds with advanced caching.
Programmatic SDK - Stacktape includes both CLI and SDK (currently supported for Javascript and Typescript). It allows you to easily build complicated deployment pipelines.
Better developer experience - Stacktape is simple, well-documented and easily customizable. Everything is properly validated. Error messages are descriptive and include hints.
Editor extension - Stacktape comes with a VS code editor extension to further improve developer experience with validation, autocompletion and built-in documentation.
Development studio (coming soon) - Stacktape development studio is a graphical user interface. It's a convenient way to manage and test your applications and infrastructure.
Client SDKs (coming soon) - Client SDKs (for web, mobile and more) can be used within your application to help with most common tasks (authenticating users, uploading files, etc.).

Stacktape's disadvantages

Not open-source - Stacktape is a SaaS product. But it comes with a free tier.
Smaller community - Being a new product, Stacktape doesn't have a large community yet.
AWS only - Stacktape works on top of AWS. Support for MS Azure and Google Cloud is planned. Besides AWS services, Stacktape also supports 3rd party providers (such as MongoDb Atlas).

Heroku

Sadly, it's also very costly and lacks a lot of features compared to larger cloud platforms (such as AWS).

Stacktape's advantages

Full power of AWS - Stacktape allows you to deploy almost any infrastructure components, including containers, batch jobs, SQL and NoSQL databases, API Gateways, Load balancers, file storage, CDN & more.
Lower costs - With Heroku, you get simplicity for a significantly higher infrastructure costs. Stacktape gives you the simplicity without the absurd infrastructure bills.
Optimized build process - Stacktape supports zero-config, heavily optimized parallel builds with advanced caching.
Programmatic SDK - Stacktape includes both CLI and SDK (currently supported for Javascript and Typescript). It allows you to easily build complicated deployment pipelines.
Editor extension - Stacktape comes with a VS code editor extension to further improve developer experience with validation, autocompletion and built-in documentation.
Infrastructure as Code - Stacktape allows you to manage infrastructure using simple and declarative configuration file. You can easily deploy as many environments (stages) as you want.
Development studio (coming soon) - Stacktape development studio is a graphical user interface. It's a convenient way to manage and test your applications and infrastructure.
Client SDKs (coming soon) - Client SDKs (for web, mobile and more) can be used within your application to help with most common tasks (authenticating users, uploading files, etc.).

Stacktape's disadvantages

Smaller community - Being a new product, Stacktape doesn't have a large community yet.
Less buildpacks - Stacktape currently supports zero-config builds for less languages and frameworks.

Firebase

Sadly, Firebase isn't sufficient for larger applications that require continuously running jobs, containers, batch jobs, SQL databases or anything else not supported by Firebase.

Stacktape's advantages

Full power of AWS - Stacktape allows you to deploy almost any infrastructure components, including containers, batch jobs, SQL and NoSQL databases, API Gateways, Load balancers, file storage, CDN & more.
Infrastructure as Code - Stacktape allows you to manage infrastructure using simple and declarative configuration file. You can easily deploy as many environments (stages) as you want.
Optimized build process - Stacktape supports zero-config, heavily optimized parallel builds with advanced caching.
Editor extension - Stacktape comes with a VS code editor extension to further improve developer experience with validation, autocompletion and built-in documentation.
Cost at scale - Firebase can get very costly very fast when you go out of the free tier.

Stacktape's disadvantages

Smaller community - Being a new product, Stacktape doesn't have a large community yet.
Less pre-built capabilities for mobile apps - Stacktape doesn't come with purpose-built features for mobile apps.

Kubernetes

However, it comes with great architectural, configuration, operational and financial overhead.

Stacktape's advantages

Developer friendly - Stacktape is usable by every developer. No DevOps, Cloud or infrastructure expertise is required.
Fully managed - All resources supported by Stacktape are fully managed. They remove a lot of responsibility from your shoulders.
Fully featured development framework - Stacktape handles all of the common tasks required to develop and run cloud applications, including application deployments, testing, debugging & much more.
Optimized build process - Stacktape supports zero-config, heavily optimized parallel builds with advanced caching.
Programmatic SDK - Stacktape includes both CLI and SDK (currently supported for Javascript and Typescript). It allows you to easily build complicated deployment pipelines.
Better developer experience - Stacktape is simple, well-documented and easily customizable. Everything is properly validated. Error messages are descriptive and include hints.
Editor extension - Stacktape comes with a VS code editor extension to further improve developer experience with validation, autocompletion and built-in documentation.
Development studio (coming soon) - Stacktape development studio is a graphical user interface. It's a convenient way to manage and test your applications and infrastructure.
Client SDKs (coming soon) - Client SDKs (for web, mobile and more) can be used within your application to help with most common tasks (authenticating users, uploading files, etc.).

Stacktape's disadvantages

Not open-source - Stacktape is a SaaS product. But it comes with a free tier.
Smaller community - Being a new product, Stacktape doesn't have a large community yet.
Public cloud only - Stacktape is not usable with on-premise infrastructure.

AWS SAM

Similarly to Serverless Framework, the simplicity disappears if you need more than just lambda functions.

Stacktape's advantages

More power - Besides lambda functions, Stacktape allows you to deploy container workloads, batch jobs, SQL and NoSQL databases, API Gateways, Load balancers and much more.
Optimized build process - Stacktape supports zero-config, heavily optimized parallel builds with advanced caching.
Programmatic SDK - Stacktape includes both CLI and SDK (currently supported for Javascript and Typescript). It allows you to easily build complicated deployment pipelines.
Better developer experience - Stacktape is simple, well-documented and easily customizable. Everything is properly validated. Error messages are descriptive and include hints.
Editor extension - Stacktape comes with a VS code editor extension to further improve developer experience with validation, autocompletion and built-in documentation.
Development studio (coming soon) - Stacktape development studio is a graphical user interface. It's a convenient way to manage and test your applications and infrastructure.
Client SDKs (coming soon) - Client SDKs (for web, mobile and more) can be used within your application to help with most common tasks (authenticating users, uploading files, etc.).

Stacktape's disadvantages

Not open-source - Stacktape is a SaaS product. But it comes with a free tier.
Smaller community - Being a new product, Stacktape doesn't have a large community yet.

CloudFormation

Unfortunately, using Cloudformation is complex, time-consuming and requires a lot of Cloud and infrastructure knowledge.

Stacktape's advantages

Developer friendly - Stacktape is usable by every developer. No DevOps, Cloud or infrastructure expertise is required.
Optimized build process - Stacktape supports zero-config, heavily optimized parallel builds with advanced caching.
Programmatic SDK - Stacktape includes both CLI and SDK (currently supported for Javascript and Typescript). It allows you to easily build complicated deployment pipelines.
Better developer experience - Stacktape is simple, well-documented and easily customizable. Everything is properly validated. Error messages are descriptive and include hints.
Editor extension - Stacktape comes with a VS code editor extension to further improve developer experience with validation, autocompletion and built-in documentation.
Development studio (coming soon) - Stacktape development studio is a graphical user interface. It's a convenient way to manage and test your applications and infrastructure.
Client SDKs (coming soon) - Client SDKs (for web, mobile and more) can be used within your application to help with most common tasks (authenticating users, uploading files, etc.).

Stacktape's disadvantages

None - Stacktape is customizable and can be easily extended using native AWS Cloudformation resources.

Terraform

However, it requires a lot of Cloud, DevOps and infrastructure knowledge. It doesn't handle packaging, applications deployments and many other tasks required to run your applications.

Stacktape's advantages

Developer friendly - Stacktape is usable by every developer. No DevOps, Cloud or infrastructure expertise is required.
Fully featured development framework - Stacktape handles all of the common tasks required to develop and run cloud applications, including application deployments, testing, debugging & much more.
Optimized build process - Stacktape supports zero-config, heavily optimized parallel builds with advanced caching.
Programmatic SDK - Stacktape includes both CLI and SDK (currently supported for Javascript and Typescript). It allows you to easily build complicated deployment pipelines.
Better developer experience - Stacktape is simple, well-documented and easily customizable. Everything is properly validated. Error messages are descriptive and include hints.
Editor extension - Stacktape comes with a VS code editor extension to further improve developer experience with validation, autocompletion and built-in documentation.
Development studio (coming soon) - Stacktape development studio is a graphical user interface. It's a convenient way to manage and test your applications and infrastructure.
Client SDKs (coming soon) - Client SDKs (for web, mobile and more) can be used within your application to help with most common tasks (authenticating users, uploading files, etc.).

Stacktape's disadvantages

Not open-source - Stacktape is a SaaS product. But it comes with a free tier.
Smaller community - Being a new product, Stacktape doesn't have a large community yet.
AWS only - Stacktape works on top of AWS. Support for MS Azure and Google Cloud is planned. Besides AWS services, Stacktape also supports 3rd party providers (such as MongoDb Atlas).

Vercel

However, it has very limited support for building application backends (servers).

Stacktape's advantages

Full power of AWS - Stacktape allows you to deploy almost any infrastructure components, including containers, batch jobs, SQL and NoSQL databases, API Gateways, Load balancers, file storage, CDN & more.
Infrastructure as Code - Stacktape allows you to manage infrastructure using simple and declarative configuration file. You can easily deploy as many environments (stages) as you want.
Optimized build process - Stacktape supports zero-config, heavily optimized parallel builds with advanced caching.
Programmatic SDK - Stacktape includes both CLI and SDK (currently supported for Javascript and Typescript). It allows you to easily build complicated deployment pipelines.
Editor extension - Stacktape comes with a VS code editor extension to further improve developer experience with validation, autocompletion and built-in documentation.
Development studio (coming soon) - Stacktape development studio is a graphical user interface. It's a convenient way to manage and test your applications and infrastructure.
Client SDKs (coming soon) - Client SDKs (for web, mobile and more) can be used within your application to help with most common tasks (authenticating users, uploading files, etc.).

Stacktape's disadvantages

Smaller community - Being a new product, Stacktape doesn't have a large community yet.

FAQ

For open-source maintainers, we also offer a premium plan for free. Feel free to contact us.

Premium plans cost only a fraction of the cost you'd pay for an alternative solution or for DevOps/Cloud specialists.

Stacktape works on the developer’s machine (or on your CI/CD server). Your deployments don't go through any Stacktape-managed infrastructure.

Furthermore, Stacktape does everything it can to help you secure your applications (least privilege permissions, secret management, database access management, etc.).

Besides numerous AWS services, Stacktape integrates popular 3rd party service providers (such as MongoDb Atlas).

Support for MS Azure is planned for late 2022.

If you need anything else currently not supported by Stacktape, feel free to contact us.

Furthermore, if your use-case is very specific and not natively supported by Stacktape, you can easily extend Stacktape applications with any AWS service.

Zero-config, heavily optimized builds are currently supported for Javascript and Typescript applications. Zero-config Python, Go and Java builds are coming soon.

To write Stacktape configuration, you can use YAML, JSON, Javascript, Typescript or Python.

Unlike other solutions on the market, Stacktape is designed to be easily customizable and extensible.

Migrating your applications to the cloud using Stacktape is in most cases very straightforward.

If you need more assistance, our team of cloud specialists can help you architect, design and run your cloud applications.

Feel free to contact us.