The Future of DevOps Automation

System Initiative is an Intuitive, Powerful, and Collaborative replacement for Infrastructure as Code.

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Intuitive

Define and manage your infrastructure as a living architecture.

Powerful

Write small, reactive functions to extend the system, customize it to your needs, and embed policy.

Collaborative

Work with other experts in full multiplayer - because DevOps was never a solo game.

It's revolutionary

What sets us apart

Here are just a few of the ways we improve on Infrastructure as Code:

A Living Architecture: makes it easy to see the entire infrastructure at a glance and use the relationships between components to automatically derive complex configurations.
Rich 1:1 Models: ensure existing knowledge of AWS and other Cloud Providers is instantly usable within System Initiative and make learning new technologies straightforward.
Full programmability: through writing small, reactive functions. Users model new services in minutes, customize existing models to conform to organizational security policy, and contribute to the community - all from within the application.
Batteries included: - everything a team needs to run a production infrastructure is in the box. There is no need for other platforms, glue code, or state file management. Everyone is on the same page, all the time.
Fully multiplayer: experience means that users can collaborate with other subject matter experts in real-time to teach, learn and review proposed changes together. What Figma did for design, System Initiative does for DevOps Engineering.
Always up-to-date change sets: allow teams to propose changes, validate the safety and security of their configurations, and keep things up to date as the environment changes.

They like it

What people are saying

“Qualifications are pretty game-changing. They give me the same feeling that I get using a code editor doing live syntax checking. This dramatically reduces the time spent compared to other tools.”
Mark Imbriaco
Long-time DevOps Innovator
“I love the automatically inferred configuration. I get exceedingly happy and giddy when I think about how this would work in different scenarios. I imagine how powerful this would be for complex chains of related resources - a ridiculous amount of configuration and pointless copy/paste work can be completely eliminated.”
Vlad Ionescu
AWS Container Hero and Independent Consultant
“Qualifications are pretty game-changing. They give me the same feeling that I get using a code editor doing live syntax checking. This dramatically reduces the time spent compared to other tools.”
Mark Imbriaco
Long-time DevOps Innovator
“I love the automatically inferred configuration. I get exceedingly happy and giddy when I think about how this would work in different scenarios. I imagine how powerful this would be for complex chains of related resources - a ridiculous amount of configuration and pointless copy/paste work can be completely eliminated.”
Vlad Ionescu
AWS Container Hero and Independent Consultant
“Qualifications are pretty game-changing. They give me the same feeling that I get using a code editor doing live syntax checking. This dramatically reduces the time spent compared to other tools.”
Mark Imbriaco
Long-time DevOps Innovator
“I love the automatically inferred configuration. I get exceedingly happy and giddy when I think about how this would work in different scenarios. I imagine how powerful this would be for complex chains of related resources - a ridiculous amount of configuration and pointless copy/paste work can be completely eliminated.”
Vlad Ionescu
AWS Container Hero and Independent Consultant

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A new foundation

How it works

First, we turned everything into data - a rich system of digital twins that enable safe, easy simulation of changes, and map 1:1 to the upstream resource.

Second, we made it all programmable and reactive by modeling it on top of a hypergraph of functions. When one property on a model changes, anything dependent on that property automatically re-calculates.

Third, we built a multiplayer user interface that makes working with the model fast, safe, and fun.

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Community driven

Open Source

System Initiative is 100% open source software under the Apache 2.0 License, available on GitHub. We are committed to building an open and collaborative community of developers, customers, users, and partners.

We can't transform the industry alone. It took a massive community effort to bring DevOps this far - and it will take another to get where we’re going. Come join us on Discord and build the future of DevOps automation together.

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