For platform engineers and DevOps

IaC from Cloud Discovery

StackGen helps you with Day 0 resource discovery of your existing cloud infrastructure. Once you run a discovery, you can select all or a few of the discovered resources to create an appStack.

You can do so either from the Cloud Asset Discovery flow, once the discovery is complete, by clicking the Create appStack from this Discovery, or by following the appStack creation flow.

Let’s see in detail how you can create an appStack from your discovered resources.

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StackGen supports discovery only through an IaC file import, i.e., .tfstate and .json.

1. From the StackGen home page, navigate to appStacks > + New appStack > appStack from Cloud Discovery.

2. Select your discovery from the list of discoveries and click Proceed.

   

3. StackGen will list all the resources within your .tfstate file.

   1. You can select all resources or a few and click the forward arrow → to create your appStack.

   2. To unselect a resource, click the back arrow ←.

      

4. Click the Create appStack button. You will be redirected to the Topology Canvas.

   • You can edit the appStack name and description via the Edit appStack Details dialog.

     

5. At any point in time, if you want to go back and select or deselect resources from your appStack:

   1. Click the Source icon from the appstack details menu.

      

   2. You can select the resources required and click the forward arrow → to include them in your appStack.

      

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      You cannot remove the resources that you've added while creating the base appStack.

   3. Click Update Topology. Your appStack will be updated with the selected resources.