DEVOPSdigest has covered the general availability of Stack Automation by Quali, developed in collaboration with Cisco and available through Cisco.
The article highlights how Stack Automation provides a single, governed operating model across the infrastructure lifecycle, from Day 0 planning and Day 1 deployment through continuous compliance, drift detection and ongoing operations. It combines Cisco Validated Designs and security best practices with Quali’s infrastructure automation and agentic AI capabilities to automate complex environments spanning GPUs, AI stacks, networking, compute, security and applications.
At the center of the platform is the Solutions Hub, a growing catalog of Cisco and third-party solutions that allows teams to deploy complete production environments using validated blueprints rather than repeatedly assembling complex infrastructure from scratch.
For DevOps and platform engineering teams, an important point is that Stack Automation is designed to extend existing automation rather than replace it. Terraform, Ansible, Python, Shell and Helm investments can be incorporated directly into governed workflows, allowing organizations to build on the tools and automation they already have.
DEVOPSdigest also highlights Stack Automation’s role as a governed infrastructure control plane, introducing agentic capabilities that allow infrastructure to be designed, validated and managed with AI-driven intelligence while maintaining consistency, security and governance throughout its lifecycle.
Cisco describes the result simply: the ability to take customers from rack to application in hours, providing a faster and more consistent path to deploying AI and mission-critical infrastructure at scale.
