What is SparkleFormation?
It is a Ruby DSL library that assists in programmatically composing template files commonly used by orchestration APIs.
It can be used to compose templates for any orchestration API that accepts serialized documents to describe resources.
SparkleFormation is a tool in the Infrastructure Build Tools category of a tech stack.
SparkleFormation is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to SparkleFormation's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses SparkleFormation?
Companies
SparkleFormation Integrations
CloudFlare, Heroku, DigitalOcean, Google Compute Engine, and Consul are some of the popular tools that integrate with SparkleFormation. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with SparkleFormation.
SparkleFormation's Features
- Template compilation
- Resource discovery
- Complex stack operations.
SparkleFormation Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to SparkleFormation?
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
AWS CloudFormation
You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your application. You don’t need to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or the subtleties of how to make those dependencies work.
Packer
Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.
Pulumi
Pulumi is a cloud development platform that makes creating cloud programs easy and productive. Skip the YAML and just write code. Pulumi is multi-language, multi-cloud and fully extensible in both its engine and ecosystem of packages.
AWS Cloud Development Kit
It is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. It uses the familiarity and expressive power of programming languages for modeling your applications. It provides you with high-level components that preconfigure cloud resources with proven defaults, so you can build cloud applications without needing to be an expert.
