Stacker

Stacker provides the cloud automation tools you need to launch, grow and extend your web platform

Stacker turns a human-readable model of your technical solution definition into extended cloud infrastructure

• • Integrate with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and anywhere else that supplies virtualisation
• • Understand your operating cost commitment before you build
• • No containers

A simple three-tier product stack is not enough by itself

A single, legible definition expresses the technical solution

Operating cost projections are calculated before you permit construction

2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 DEBUG Generator configuration
2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 DEBUG Python /usr/bin/python3
2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 DEBUG Log location /var/log/buckminster
2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 DEBUG Checking that the /var/log/buckminster directory exists
2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 INFO /var/log/buckminster exists
2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 INFO Generator log files
2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 INFO Output log /var/log/buckminster/20251114-153354.output.log
2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 INFO Error log /var/log/buckminster/20251114-153354.error.log
2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 INFO Follow progress in these logs with
2025-11-14 15:33:54 000000 INFO $ tail -1000f /var/log/buckminster/20251114-153354.*
2025-11-14 15:33:55 000001 INFO Organisation has been defined
2025-11-14 15:33:55 000001 INFO Structure has been defined
2025-11-14 15:33:55 000001 INFO Machinery has been defined
2025-11-14 15:33:55 000001 INFO DRY_RUN_ONLY is set to false
2025-11-14 15:33:55 000001 INFO Projected costs
2025-11-14 15:33:55 000001 INFO Hour [ USD 1.11 ]
2025-11-14 15:33:55 000001 INFO Day [ USD 26.54 ]
2025-11-14 15:33:55 000001 INFO Week [ USD 185.76 ]
2025-11-14 15:33:55 000001 INFO Month [ USD 807.18 ]
Build the infrastructure ? (y/N)

Infrastructure management code is derived from the definition, virtual machines are provisioned, components are installed and configured

Your product stacks arrive with other resources you'll need

Stacker comes with contemporary development, security and operations automation built in

• • Monitoring first
• • Operational automation
• • Source code management workflows
• • User and role management
• • Development, test, public and recovery environments
• • Convenient connectivity
• • Software packaging and distribution

Stacker includes installation and configuration automation for a library of open source software

Application components for front end software systems

• • HTTPd
• • NodeJS
• • Python
• • SQLite

API components for back end software systems and third party integrations

• • NodeJS Express framework
• • NodeJS Express gateway
• • Python FastAPI

Data components for persistence and storage

• • MariaDB client
• • MariaDB connector
• • MariaDB server
• • PostgreSQL server

Essential components for DNS, monitoring, logging, load balancing reverse proxies, source code management & operating system

• • Bind & named
• • Certbot
• • Elasticsearch
• • Filebeat
• • Git
• • Gitlab
• • HAProxy
• • Kibana
• • Logstash
• • OpenSearch
• • Prometheus
• • Prometheus node exporter
• • Prometheus systemd exporter
• • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Need more ?

Stacker consultancy, customisation, extension, support and subscription available from 01.26