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Sound Familiar?

What version is running in prod-eu-west-1?

The pain: You check Kubernetes, then AWS console, then your team’s spreadsheet. 15 minutes later, you’re still not 100% sure.With Ctrlplane: Single inventory showing every resource and its current version, updated in real-time.

Can someone approve this deploy?

The pain: Slack message sent. Thread dies. Deploy sits for hours. You ping again. Finally someone approves at 6pm.With Ctrlplane: Built-in approval workflows with notifications. Approvers see pending releases in one place.

Staging passed—now deploy to prod

The pain: Manual step someone forgets. Or worse, staging didn’t actually pass but prod got deployed anyway.With Ctrlplane: Auto-promote to production only when staging verification succeeds. No manual intervention needed.

We added a new cluster

The pain: Update 6 config files, 3 CI pipelines, and remember to tell the team. Miss one and deploys fail silently.With Ctrlplane: New clusters auto-join environments via selectors. Tag it env: production and it starts receiving deployments.

Rollback NOW!

The pain: Scramble to find the right commands. Which version was stable? Did we roll back all regions? Did we miss one?With Ctrlplane: Automatic rollback when verification fails. One-click manual rollback when needed.

Deploy to 10 regions without breaking everything

The pain: Either deploy to all at once (risky) or manually babysit each region (slow and error-prone).With Ctrlplane: Gradual rollouts deploy one region at a time, verify health, then continue—automatically.

The Problems at Scale

When you have 5 services and 2 environments, everything is manageable. When you hit 20+ services across 4 environments and 8 clusters, you start feeling the pain:

Challenge	What Teams Do Today	What Goes Wrong
Environment promotion	Manual deploy after checking staging	Someone forgets, or staging wasn’t actually verified
Deployment verification	”It deployed successfully!”	Service is broken, but pipeline says green
Infrastructure visibility	Spreadsheets + multiple dashboards	Outdated info, no source of truth
Adding new infrastructure	Update configs everywhere	Miss something, deploys fail
Multi-region deploys	Sequential manual deploys or YOLO all-at-once	Too slow or too risky
Rollbacks	Ad-hoc scripts and hope	Inconsistent, slow, error-prone

Two Core Systems

Deployment Orchestration

Controls when and where releases happen:

Auto-promote after verification
Approval gates for production
Gradual rollouts across regions
Automatic rollback on failure

Infrastructure Inventory

Tracks what exists and what’s running:

Real-time resource inventory
Dynamic environment membership
Version tracking across all targets
Works with K8s, AWS, GCP, custom

What Ctrlplane Is NOT

Ctrlplane doesn’t replace your existing tools—it coordinates them:

Not a CI system — Your CI (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins) still builds code
Not a GitOps engine — ArgoCD/Flux still syncs manifests to clusters
Not infrastructure provisioning — Terraform still creates your resources

Ctrlplane decides when deployments should happen, where they should go, and whether they passed verification.

Next Steps

5-Minute Overview

Understand the mental model

Quickstart

Set up your first deployment pipeline

Use Cases

See specific scenarios solved

Comparisons

How Ctrlplane compares to other tools

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