It supports the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach to DevOps automation and has been compared with SaltStack and Ansible,[2] it primarily focuses on doing things or running workflows based on events.

StackStorm is comparable to IFTTT[3] or Zapier in providing a way to connect many different services together in coherent applets or workflows that begin based on defined events or triggers.

With initial funding by XSeed Capital, StackStorm came out of stealth on May 6, 2014[6] to introduce a private beta program for the company’s first product.

StackStorm offered IT departments the capability to automatically trigger actions and drive behaviors across the infrastructure and separate systems with scriptable processes.

[10] In 2019, Extreme Networks facilitated moving the StackStorm project to the Linux Foundation citing community requests for more neutral governance.