Stack
What is a Stack
A stack is an instance of a Platform built from an architecture blueprint that you can manage as a single unit. Platforms provide building blocks that are reused in a large number of products and services. It has a set of components that can be ...
How to teardown a stack
Once deploying a stack following here, you can teardown the stack. Note that your cloud account will be charged since you deployed a stack. It is important to teardown your stack when you don't need to keep running to avoid unnecessary charges on ...
How to resume a stack
Once pausing a stack following here, you can resume the stack. Note that your cloud account will be charged since you deployed a stack. It is important to teardown your stack when you don't need to keep running to avoid unnecessary charges on your ...
How to pause a stack
Once deploying a stack following How to deploy a stack, you can pause the stack. Pause any stack without destroying the data or configuration. Pausing a stack saves cloud provider costs, and the stack can be deployed again when needed without ...
How to move a stack
Once configuring a stack following here, you can move the stack configuration from the project where the stack was created to a different project. Once a stack has been configured for one project, an authorized user can easily move the stack ...
How to interact with provisioned applications
Once deploying a stack following here, you will see the following applications under the Provision Application panel. Those are components included in the Data Flow Platform. Amazon EKS Console Grafana Dashboard Kafka Topics UI Kibana Dashboard ...
How to deploy a stack
Once configuring a stack following here, you can deploy the stack. To deploy a stack: Click the "Deploy" button on the top of the Stack configuration page. (It would take up to 20 minutes to fully deploy the stack) The stack status will be changed to ...
How to configure new stack
You must configure a stack configuration before deploying the stack to your cloud environment. You can initiate configuring a new stack from a few different places: On the Home page, "Configure stack" button on the Stacks statistics block. On the ...
How to clone a stack
Once configuring a stack following here, you can clone the stack to the same project or a different project. For example, once a stack configuration is created on one project, an authorized user can easily clone the stack configuration and update ...
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AWS Provider Access Method
Add an AWS provider access method to snapblocs before configuring or deploying a stack. When configuring a stack, snapblocs will retrieve some AWS account information such as available VPCs, Subnets, SSH Key Pairs, etc. This information is ...
Architecture as Code vs Infrastructure as Code
The ‘as code’ paradigm is about being able to reproduce and/or restore a full environment within minutes based on recipes and automation, managed as code. Therefore, the ‘as Code’ approach provides repeatability, share-ability, versioning in ...
Proven Architecture Blueprints
snapblocs Architecture Blueprints provide proven architecture that delivers common Data Platform use cases, making it simple to provision and manage Data Platform stacks. snapblocs Architecture Blueprints consist of open source components and proven ...
Built-in Observability
Observability is the measure of how well its external outputs can determine the internal states of a system. In other words, Observability describes the degree to which systems and services are behaving based on collected data. There are three ...
How to Add Cloud Provider Access Key
When deploying a snapblocs stack, snapblocs provisions the stack within the customer's cloud account. The provider access key is used to allow snapblocs to access your cloud provider environment for deploying your stacks, collecting statistics of ...