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Cosmonic announced the launch of Cosmonic Control, a control plane for managing distributed applications across any cloud, any Kubernetes, any edge, or on premise and self-hosted deployment.

With Cosmonic Control, enterprise platform engineering teams create polyglot golden templates and components, allowing developers to write applications once and deploy them anywhere.

"It's easy to deploy a thousand applications on Kubernetes, but can you maintain them?" asks Cosmonic CEO Liam Randall. "Cosmonic Control enables platform engineering teams to maintain, migrate, and update applications at scale letting developers focus on what they're good at: building new features."

Built on wasmCloud, the incubating CNCF Wasm-native orchestration platform which is co-maintained by the team at Cosmonic, Cosmonic Control addresses these challenges. It provides a unified control plane for managing WebAssembly workloads from a single interface.

- Lower cloud costs: Cosmonic Control automatically scales applications to zero with zero cold starts and executes in a tiny footprint. Platform engineers can fit significantly more workloads on their existing hardware.

- Developer efficiency: Developers build and deploy WebAssembly (Wasm) components: small units of code that interoperate with other components written in any language; massively increasing the re-usability of code. Components combine to create one set of centrally-managed applications that can be used and reused anywhere.

- Security: Cosmonic Control uses secure Wasm sandboxes to ensure that each component operates safely and efficiently, while also facilitating rapid deployment and scalability. Components are isolated within a single build chain, making security updates simple.

Bailey Hayes, Cosmonic CTO says: "Cosmonic Control finally makes it easy for the enterprise to adopt and scale Wasm in their own environments. Customers create new cluster deployments, deploy and manage applications, within their own marketplace accounts. We bring this together into a single control plane with support for OIDC, OpenTelemetry, GitOps Integrations, and Internal Developer Platforms like Backstage, and Kubernetes."

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)

Cosmonic Control launches with a BYOC service: customers deploy wasmCloud infrastructure inside their own cloud. Platform engineering teams then have access to an enterprise-grade suite of observability tools, guardrails, and controls to ensure their platform can scale to any size and complexity.

Developers are saved from expensive maintenance cycles while enabling platform teams to keep applications up-to-date in real-time. With per-invocation execution and instant scaling, components can always be started with the most recent version of dependencies.

Cosmonic plans to introduce self-hosted and fully-managed services later this year.

Under the hood:

- Operations: Cosmonic Control ships with new Kubernetes CRDs for wasmCloud, components, and plugins. Cosmonic manages the entire life cycle, from install to exit and upgrade–all integrated with existing Kubernetes-native systems.

- Multi-tenancy with OIDC (OpenID Connect). Plugs into enterprise OIDC which brings in teams and groups straight from Microsoft Entra ID. The same processes used to build and run teams today are pulled straight into Cosmonic Control.

- Enterprise-grade security: Ships with zero-fault Chainguard images, an SBOM for granular image visibility which is configured to run without root execution, and SSO Integration.

- Full support for OpenTelemetry. Central configuration and management for OTEL; logging, tracing, metrics, and alerts can be pointed towards existing Splunk, Datadog, and Honeycomb deployments.

- Improved developer experience: Idiomatic approach for multi-language deployments in Go, TypeScript, Rust / C / C++, with Microsoft .NET, Python, Java and more in the roadmap.

- Industry-wide integration with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKS), ECS, Fargate, Google Cloud Run, Bare Metal, Akamai, on prem, bespoke edges. Cosmonic Control will also appear in a range of popular marketplaces in the coming months.