Originally reported on devops.com. Agile Stacks made the announcement at the HPE Discover 2019 conference.
Background: Agile Stacks and HPE’s Kubernetes Strategy
At HPE Discover 2019, Agile Stacks — a company that counts Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) among its investors — announced expanded capabilities for its DevOps automation platform. The announcement coincided with HPE’s own public positioning of Kubernetes as a cornerstone of its hybrid cloud computing strategy, signalling growing industry alignment around container orchestration as the connective tissue between on-premises and cloud environments.
What the Agile Stacks Platform Does
The Agile Stacks platform is designed to automate the creation and management of DevOps pipelines across a wide range of tools and CI/CD platforms. Rather than requiring teams to manually integrate and maintain individual toolchains, Agile Stacks provides a structured framework that orchestrates those integrations automatically.
The platform’s Service Catalog includes more than 80 DevOps tools and platforms, among them:
- CI/CD & Source Control: Jenkins, GitLab, Spinnaker
- Machine Learning Pipelines: Kubeflow
- Container Registry: Harbor
- Object Storage: Minio
- Distributed Storage: Ceph, Portworx
SuperHub: Automating the Automation
At the heart of the Agile Stacks platform is the SuperHub automation hub. SuperHub accelerates software delivery through composable, configurable stacks. Each component within a stack is auto-configured to handle the full lifecycle of a service, including:
- Deploy, upgrade, and rollback
- Promote across environments and clone
- Backup and restore
- Test script generation and functional testing
- Performance testing and vulnerability scanning
- Code merges
The goal, as articulated by Agile Stacks, is to automate the DevOps automation itself — essentially removing the manual configuration overhead that grows as organisations add more tools and platforms to their delivery pipelines.
Addressing Tool Sprawl with a GitOps Framework
One of the persistent challenges in mature DevOps environments is tool sprawl. Organisations that have adopted best practices rarely standardise on a single vendor’s toolchain — they assemble purpose-fit tools from multiple vendors. This creates isolated silos of automation that can conflict, duplicate effort, or simply fail to share state.
Agile Stacks addresses this with an extensible GitOps framework that integrates heterogeneous toolchains under a single operational model. Because the framework is GitOps-based, infrastructure and pipeline configuration is version-controlled and auditable — a practical advantage as DevOps processes evolve and team membership changes over time.
Hybrid Cloud Complexity and Cloud Cost Visibility
Hybrid cloud adoption — driven in significant part by the maturation and widespread uptake of Kubernetes — introduces additional operational complexity. Most organisations want to run workloads across multiple public clouds and their existing on-premises infrastructure simultaneously, but the DevOps processes for each platform tend to be fragmented rather than unified.
Agile Stacks positions SuperHub as a tool to unify these processes across platforms. Beyond pipeline orchestration, SuperHub also supports automated cloud tagging — enabling teams to maintain better visibility into cloud spending by systematically labelling resources at provisioning time, rather than trying to retrofit tagging policies after the fact.
Lowering the Barrier to DevOps Adoption
Agile Stacks also stated an intent to make DevOps more broadly accessible by reducing the initial complexity that discourages adoption. Most organisations still struggle to automate software delivery reliably on a single platform. By abstracting toolchain integration through a composable, catalogue-driven model, the platform aims to let teams start with a working, opinionated baseline rather than building integration logic from scratch.
As hybrid cloud becomes a standard rather than an exceptional architecture, the pressure on engineering teams to implement consistent, enterprise-wide DevOps processes will only increase. Platforms like Agile Stacks represent one approach to managing that complexity — centralising orchestration while preserving the flexibility to adopt new tools as the ecosystem evolves.
Key Takeaways
- Agile Stacks announced expanded platform capabilities at HPE Discover 2019, backed by HPE investment.
- The platform’s SuperHub hub orchestrates composable DevOps stacks across more than 80 integrated tools.
- An extensible GitOps framework addresses tool sprawl in multi-vendor DevOps environments.
- Automated cloud tagging via SuperHub helps organisations track and control cloud spend.
- The platform targets both mature DevOps teams dealing with hybrid cloud complexity and organisations earlier in their DevOps journey.