System Initiative Blog
Announcing - Views
Views are a mechanism that allows users to create semantically relevant slices of the infrastructure diagram..
Paul Stack
Announcing - Audit Trail
Audit Trail allows teams to get a history of what has happened in their workspaces.
Nick Gerace
Announcing - Management Functions
Approval workflows allow enterprise teams and those with compliance needs to adopt System Initiative.
Paul Stack
Announcing - Approval Workflows
Approval workflows allow enterprise teams and those with compliance needs to adopt System Initiative.
Paul Stack
Announcing - Resource Import
Resource import allows you to import existing infrastructure to be managed by System Initiative.
Paul Stack
Opportunity - Views
Views will allow creation of custom diagrams within the workspace
Paul Stack
Opportunity - ReBAC
ReBAC will introduce the ability to add an approval workflow to a workspace.
Paul Stack
Opportunity - Management Functions
Management Functions will enable importing existing cloud resources, modular templating, and day-two management of existing components.
Adam Jacob
Template-Driven Tailscale: System Initiative’s Approach to Managing Tailscale
Learn how System Initiative secures their production infrastructure using Tailscale.
Paul Stack
System Initiative is the Future
Announcing the general availability of System Initiative. It's a revolutionary technology that is the future of how you will build DevOps automation, and will replace Infrastructure as Code.
Adam Jacob
It's a secret
At System Initiative, we're building a collaborative power tool designed to remove the papercuts from DevOps work. Today, we've launched the capability to safely store, secure, and integrate secrets into your applications and infrastructure.
Nick Stinemates
Driving LocalStack with System Initiative
User feedback in System’s Initiative’s GitHub repository requested support for LocalStack. LocalStack is a fully functional local cloud stack allowing you to drive your AWS infrastructure locally.
Paul Stack
Open Source
Today we’re proud to open source the System Initiative software under the Apache License version 2.0 - you can find the source on GitHub, and sign up to take it for a spin yourself.
Adam Jacob
Introducing the System Initiative Launcher
Today, we are delighted to announce the System Initiative Launcher for managing local installations of System Initiative. The launcher is initially available for Linux and macOS operating systems.
Paul Stack
My journey to System Initiative
Paul walks through his journey from Infrastructure as Code to System Initiative
Paul Stack
Second Wave DevOps
If we want to realize the full potential of what DevOps can be, we need a second wave of DevOps tools. A reinvigorated movement of builders, who are willing to explore what's possible when we are no longer constrained by the way the system worked in 2009.
Adam Jacob
Five breakthroughs on the path to System Initiative
DevOps has a user experience problem. Here are the five breakthroughs we made while iterating on System Initiative that have allowed us to build a system we believe has the potential to be an order of magnitude better than the status quo.
Adam Jacob
DevOps without papercuts
We're on a mission to find and eliminate the papercuts from DevOps work. In this post we talk about what a papercut is, why DevOps is full of them, and what we're going to do about it.
Adam Jacob