Main Concepts
Stacks
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stack is one of the core concepts in spacelift a stack is an isolated, independent entity and the choice of the word mirrors products like https //docs aws amazon com/awscloudformation/latest/userguide/stacks html , or https //www pulumi com/docs/intro/concepts/stack/ (which we both support) you can think about a stack as a combination of source code, current state of the managed infrastructure (eg terraform state file), and configuration in the form of /configuration/environment md variables and mounted files unless you're using spacelift only to host and test private / /vendors/terraform/module registry md , your account should probably contain one or more stacks to be of any use for example here's a few helpful articles about stacks in creating a stack md , you can learn how to create a new stack; stack settings md you can see all the settings that are available for the stack; stack locking md#stack locking you can learn about stack locking; stack state similar to /run/ and /run/task md , stacks also have states a stack's state is the last state of its most recently processed /run/#where do runs come from only if the stack has no runs yet a special state "none" is applied stack states allow users to see at a glance the overall health of their infrastructure, and the level of development activity associated with it