Hi everyone 👋 We just launched something I think many of you will appreciate — especially if you’ve ever tried

pulumi import

on a big GCP project 😅 It’s called StackForge — and it instantly converts a live GCP project into: ✅ A clean Pulumi YAML file (

Main.yaml

) ✅ A fully hydrated Pulumi state file (

stackName.json

) ✅ Optional GCS upload — no deploy or apply needed 🛑 No Terraformer 🛑 No dependency chaos 🛑 No manual reverse-IaC 🎥 Demo (2 min): http://x-itm.com/demo.mp4 🔐 Trial access: https://x-itm.com/stackforge-trial/ (Request access key) Would love to hear what you think — and open to early feedback or testing if anyone here wants to try it.

the idea is good, but the demo is not very compelling. 90% of time it shows nothing. would love to see the generated files and waiting part to be trimmed it seems you want it to be a commercial offering? too unpolished at the moment to be that, so I wouldn't even go through the hoops of generating api key and I don't know if I'd pay for the polished version either. imo, in 2025 with all genai tools, the value of low-level yaml/tf/IaC is not very high.

Hi Dmitry — really appreciate the honest feedback 🙏 You’re absolutely right that the current demo could be tighter — especially the idle time during scanning. We’re actually re-editing it to jump straight into the generated

Main.yaml

and

stackName.json

so people can see the output immediately. As for the API key: totally fair. The key isn't tied to payment — it just scopes access during early rollout. We want to make sure we onboard teams who are actively testing real-world GCP stacks so we can learn and improve fast. On the GenAI vs. YAML point — I agree that higher-level abstractions are evolving quickly. But most of the infra teams we’ve worked with (especially at consultancies or in regulated environments) still need clean, explicit IaC baselines before applying higher-level automation. StackForge isn't just generating YAML — it's resolving live dependency graphs, stitching references across services, and producing state that's deployable on day one. So yes — it's commercial in intent, but it's also born out of real-world pain trying to migrate complex GCP estates to Pulumi under deadlines. If we didn’t build it, we’d still be burning weeks manually importing resources 😅 If you ever want to try it without jumping through forms, I’m happy to DM you a trial key directly. Either way — really grateful for the input, and thanks for taking the time to engage 👊