You provide your application code and scripts, select a few parameters, and hit create. Stacksmith pulls together the dependencies, documents and packages them, and delivers everything you need to deploy your application to your chosen cloud platform - the VM or container image and the deployment template.
Stacksmith continuously monitors your app dependencies, alerting you when updates become available, and providing a simple way to re-package and deploy the application.
FAQ
How much does Stacksmith cost?
Stacksmith can be used to package up to 5 applications at no cost on the Public tier. These applications and the scripts used to package and configure them will be publicly accessible.
To package more than 5 applications or to keep your applications private consider Stacksmith Team or Stacksmith Enterprise. (link to bitnami.com/stacksmith)
What do I need to use Stacksmith Public?
A free Bitnami.com account
An account on AWS or Azure. Packaging and monitoring applications makes use of compute, networking and storage resources that may be billed separately by your cloud provider.
How do I get started with Stacksmith?
Start with our NodeJS walk-through
How do I get support?
Please post your questions and feedback in this forum. Bitnami staff periodically monitor this community along with other users of Stacksmith. Users of the Team and Enterprise tiers of Stacksmith are also entitled to priority support as defined in their agreement with Bitnami.
I have a question not answered by the FAQ. What should I do?
Please post your question in this forum.
Getting Started Resources