Stacklet vs. Firefly

Considering a Stacklet alternative?

Here’s a walkthrough for DevOps pros who just want to know what their options are.

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Firefly is a Cloud Infrastructure Automation platform—and alternative to Stacklet—that lets you:

Enforce policies across code, CI/CD, & cloud with governance-as-code

Inventory, sort, and filter through all your cloud assets

Understand your IaC coverage and status

Provision IaC pipelines and adopt GitOps automations

Detect and remediate configuration drift in real time

Codify your cloud easily and automatically with best practices

Use comprehensive asset history for disaster recovery and rollback

Continuously scan your entire cloud footprint, across multi-cloud environments, IaC frameworks, Kubernetes clusters, and SaaS applications

See how Firefly stacks up against Stacklet

Firefly

Stacklet

Governance-as-Code

Firefly

Unified governance engine across code, CI/CD, and cloud deployed resources, including unmanaged resources

Built-in FinOps cost estimation

Firefly has a natural language translator into Open Policy Agent (OPA) so more engineers can use it without the need for OPA training/expertise

Stacklet

Does not offer comprehensive code to cloud governance.
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Doesn’t support natural language translation into OPA/Rego policies for non-expert users.

Doesn’t support PR generation to remediate policy violations in IaC code.

AI Remediation

Firefly

Context aware IaC AI remediation for policy violations

Stacklet

Does not offer policy violation remediation

Cloud Scanning + Inventory

Firefly

Discover and inventory all cloud metadata and configurations; maps any IaC AND detects unmanaged resources

Stacklet

Stacklet does not scan the entire cloud footprint. It’s limited to assets that are explicitly defined in policies.

It also does not detect unmanaged resources.

IaC Orchestration

Firefly

Provision and orchestrate IaC seamlessly within your existing CI/CD, for any IaC

Not blocked in case of downtime

Stacklet

Does not offer IaC Orchestration

Pre-Deployment Scanning

Firefly

Scan pre-deployment (IaC plan stage) for policy violations, tagging compliance, and FinOps cost estimations

Stacklet

Does not offer pre-deployment IaC scanning

Codification

Firefly

Generates IaC code in any language, creates modules, uses module call, and nested modules

Stacklet

Does not offer codification of cloud resources

Drift Detection
+ Fix

Firefly

Near real-time detection at scale, does not require plan/apply to engage

Maps cloud events against cloud resources against ideal state configurations for full fidelity context of who, what, when + configuration history

Firefly uniquely calls modules/repos, allowing non-expert IaC engineers to automate fix IaC by opening PR

Stacklet

Does not offer drift detection or remediation

Asset History

Firefly

Complete change log, with ability to revert to previous versions

Stacklet

No asset history

Disaster Recovery + Business Resilience

Firefly

Rollback to previous stored configurations

Independent backup for all cloud configurations + IaC code

Stacklet

Backup and Recovery not a core function

Cannot store historical configurations

5 reasons you shouldn’t use Firefly as a Stacklet alternative

If Firefly isn’t the right Cloud Infrastructure Automation solution for you, we won’t waste your time. But how do you know if Firefly is not a good fit for your business?

If you *prefer* limited visibility, incomplete governance, and zero automated remediation, then you might not need Firefly. In fact, if you're 100% committed to doing just 50% of the job, Stacklet is 200% likely to be the solution for you. (If that’s the case, you should probably leave this page now. But we’ll be here if you change your mind)."

You prefer your cloud governance like your ex: reactive and hands-off.

Let’s not get in the way of those Terraform plans. Push to prod blindly and let Stacklet clean up the emotional damage later.

You don’t trust AI unless it’s for your Spotify recommendations.

Firefly suggesting smart, AI-powered policy violation remediations? Hard pass. Let’s keep doing it manually. (If you think like this, you probably live —and work— like it’s 2012).

If you're certain you have complete oversight of your assets.

Your cloud is continuously monitored for issues, and you're already aware of the proportion of your cloud that's codified in IaC and unmanaged, as well as what has drifted (in any IaC language).

If manual codification sounds like an excellent lesson in doing things the hard way, and you're ready for the challenge.

Note: you might also need to appreciate unnecessary manual work instead of utilizing templates (or modules), not mind using subpar code that doesn't adhere to best practices, or enjoy the constant company of toil in your workplace.

If, during an incident, your engineers would prefer to recreate your configurations rather than keep them centrally documented.

Chaos adds excitement to life, and you believe that redoing work is fundamental to maintaining positive morale.

Weighing your options?
Book a demo to see Firefly at work

Without Firefly, you're left with Stacklet’s incomplete governance and limited visibility. You get no drift detection or codification, and you have to work manually to remediate your policy violations. But hey, some people enjoy living on the edge — and if that sounds familiar, we applaud your courage.

Why Firefly?

Comprehensive asset visibility & inventory

Simplified IaC provisioning

Use your preferred CI/CD

Real-time drift detection & remediation

Multi-language IaC support & codification

Unified governance across cloud resources

Self-hosted options for true control