STACKFORMS
The power of radical simplicity
Give your users controlled access to your DevOps automation and reduce tickets by up to 70% in Cycloid’s self-service portal.
What is StackForms?
Take this typical use case: a developer wants to configure a new environment, but choosing variables and knowing permissions requires specialist knowledge – and often the help of your DevOps team. This slows down deployment and draws your team’s focus away from what’s important.
StackForms is a self-service portal that acts as the glue between your workloads, ensuring your services work end-to-end. Here’s an example: Cycloid deploys your compute and storage workloads where the end-user selects a landing zone, either through Cycloid asset inventory or using your cloud provider API. Additionally, it provides cost estimation, giving users visibility into the financial impact of their infrastructure choices. Infrastructure made easy and cost-effective!
Configure environment
Choose from pre-defined environments set up by your platform team — each one pre-wired to the right cloud account, region, permissions model, and cost-centre tags. Developers select what they’re authorised to use and get straight to work. No specialist knowledge, no tickets, no missing tags to clean up later.
Integrate
End-users can integrate their deployment with another pre-existing deployment.
Estimate costs
Estimate how much your environment is going to cost before you deploy.
Stackforms features highlight
Basic widgets (text, sliders, radio buttons)
Easily build custom forms with Cycloid’s extensive range of widgets, including text fields, text areas, auto complete fields, slider ranges, slider lists, dropdown, radio buttons and more.
Multiselect Dropdown:
Select one or multiple values from the available options, with validation to ensure a minimum and maximum number of selections.
Asset Inventory Widget:
Select a previously deployed cloud resource to seamlessly integrate cloud components.
Validations
Outcomes with Cycloid
Scale efficiently
Allow your end-users to serve themselves independently, without DevOps intervention.
- Create environments without specialist knowledge
- Improved UX for better developer experience
- Validate end-user values with a regular expression for the best quality
Built-in governance
DevOps engineers have total control over permissions, values, Stacks and lists of variables or scenarios.
- Bind environments to specific cloud accounts, regions, and cost-centre tags — enforced automatically, not by process
- Limit teams to approved tools and deployment targets; only authorised users can reach production
- Estimate costs before deployment
- Build option lists for dropdown, auto-complete, and radio buttons with external tools and API
Apply powerful tech
The easy-to-use interface covers up the more complex “nuts and bolts” underneath.
- Compatible with Terraform, Ansible and all major orchestration technologies
- Wide range of widgets and variables
- Conditional fields and dynamic values
- Powerful validation rules
