Introduction to the STACKIT Automation Service
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Welcome to the STACKIT Automation Service. The service empowers you to effortlessly design, schedule, and execute automated tasks within your cloud environment.
Managing cloud resources by hand is repetitive, error-prone, and hard to scale. The STACKIT Automation Service removes that manual overhead by letting you run recurring operations from predefined templates, either on a schedule or on demand. Its initial capabilities focus on storage lifecycle management, starting with disk volumes.
Why does this matter to you? Because reliable operations should not depend on someone remembering to run a task. With label-based targeting, the service automatically discovers and applies your policies to every resource that matches your criteria, so new resources are covered without extra configuration. Built-in retention policies keep your snapshot rotations under control, and the service integrates seamlessly into the STACKIT universe, adopting the overall permissions and role model.
This documentation enables you to use the full potential of the STACKIT Automation Service. The Getting started section guides you from nothing to a first working automation within minutes. The How-tos section explains all features, concepts, and settings of the product in depth. If you have questions while using the service, consult the FAQ section to get help.