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Platform capabilities

Every capability, documented in full.

A complete breakdown across the automation supply chain, policy framework, inventory intelligence, agentic AI, ITSM and diagnostics. No feature wall with nothing behind it.

69+
documented capabilities across 9 domains
21
named AI agents
30
MCP servers & tools
18+
enterprise integrations
Domain 01

The automation supply chain

Every workflow, provisioning action and remediation playbook is treated as a versioned, policy-validated artifact — from authoring and approval through execution and audit. Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD and serverless sit behind one Service Catalog.

Core catalog experience

6 features

Unified Service Catalog

Central storefront for automation, provisioning, diagnostics and workflow services. Parameterised, version-controlled entries with environment-aware targeting across Dev, Test and Prod.

Catalog templates

Signed and promoted automation artifacts with input validation, default values and mandatory parameter enforcement. Reusable across teams and tenants.

Approval workflows

ITSM-driven approval gates embedded at catalog level. Execution is blocked until approvals are satisfied, with automatic RITM and change record creation.

Multi-tenant catalogs

Tenant-isolated catalog scopes with role-based visibility. Each business unit sees only what it is authorised to consume, under shared platform governance.

Execution history & lineage

Full lineage with run logs, input parameters, output artifacts and approval records. Every execution is immutably recorded.

Environment awareness

Environment-specific validation rules. Promotion between Dev, Test and Prod requires explicit approval and policy clearance.

Multi-engine orchestration

8 features

Tool-agnostic execution

Abstracts orchestration across Terraform, Ansible AAP, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Harness and serverless. Teams interact with the catalog, not engine CLIs.

Terraform / Terraform Cloud

Provisioning with plan preview, policy checks, drift detection and state management. Supports TFC workspaces and self-hosted Terraform Enterprise.

Ansible Automation Platform

Configuration management, remediation playbooks and diagnostics via AAP job templates, with credential injection and output capture.

GitHub Actions & GitLab CI

Pipeline dispatch via workflow_dispatch with parameterised inputs. Status and artifacts captured back into the execution record.

Harness & Azure DevOps

Progressive delivery, canary release management and enterprise pipelines integrated into the governance layer with change-evidence linkage.

Stack-based workflow definition

Multi-step, dependency-aware Stacks with conditional branching and output-to-input parameter passing between stages.

Serverless & KNative functions

Event-driven execution for secret rotation, health checks and compliance snapshots, with full policy enforcement.

BYO automation ingestion

Bring existing playbooks, modules and pipelines into the catalog without rewriting. Execution boundaries applied at ingestion.

Domain 02

Intelligent Policy Framework (CIPF)

A single identity-and-policy control plane governing every automation action from request through execution. CIPF evaluates who is running what, against what, under what conditions — and records the decision.

Zero Trust & identity

6 features

Identity-centric execution

OIDC/SAML integration with enterprise IdPs. Identity is propagated across every connected engine; each run is attributed to an authenticated principal.

Just-in-time access

Time-bound, least-privilege permissions issued per run, scoped to the catalog item, environment and resource set. No standing privilege retained.

Fine-grained RBAC

Role-to-service and role-to-stack enforcement, evaluated at execution time against current role assignments rather than cached at session start.

Tenant isolation

Hard and soft multi-tenant boundaries. Execution contexts, catalog scopes and resource targets are strictly isolated.

Environment segmentation

Dev, Test and Prod enforced as distinct security domains with explicit policy clearance required for promotion.

Immutable execution lineage

Tamper-proof records of identity, permissions, policy decisions, inputs and outputs — evidence-ready for SOC 2, FedRAMP and ISO 27001.

Policy enforcement engine

6 features

Pre-execution policy validation

OPA/Rego guardrails evaluated before execution. Failures block the run and return a structured violation report with remediation guidance.

Terraform plan policy checks

Policies inspect resource types, counts, regions and configuration attributes in the plan output before apply is permitted.

Cross-tag validation

Executions that would produce untagged or incorrectly tagged resources are blocked at the gate with specific violation details.

Environment-specific policies

Production policy sets add change-window validation, CMDB CI verification and mandatory approval requirements.

Immutable audit logs

Every ALLOW and DENY captured with the evaluating policy name, input context and timestamp.

Tag Registry & metadata governance

Authoritative tag catalog with mandatory/optional enforcement across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and Kubernetes, integrated with CMDB, HR and Finance taxonomies.

Domain 03

Inventory & asset intelligence

Real-time multi-cloud discovery with cross-domain dependency correlation. Every automation decision is inventory-aware — what exists, who owns it, what depends on it, and whether it has drifted.

Discovery & correlation

6 features

Multi-cloud inventory

Live discovery across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI — compute, networking, storage, IAM, managed services and serverless, normalised into one schema.

Kubernetes inventory

Clusters, namespaces, deployments, services, ConfigMaps and workload metadata — including OpenShift and RKE2 — in the cross-cloud resource graph.

Database inventory

Relational and managed database discovery capturing engine type, version, tier, connectivity and ownership metadata.

Dependency correlation

Infrastructure ↔ platform ↔ database mapping. See the full blast radius, downstream consumers and shared dependencies before executing.

Inventory-driven targeting

Scope automation by tag, owner, environment, region or dependency relationship rather than hard-coded identifiers.

Drift detection

Continuous validation of live state against approved Stack definitions, with alerts and catalog-driven remediation paths.

Domain 04

Agentic AI & agents

21 named agents embedded across every domain — not a chatbot bolted on, but an execution-aware intelligence layer on LangGraph orchestration, MCP servers and a RAG/vector knowledge store. Agents understand context, policy and inventory before acting.

Core AI capabilities

6 features

AI-assisted diagnostics

Pattern recognition across execution history, telemetry and inventory to surface probable causes and recommended actions without manual log triage.

Execution pattern learning

Behavioural anomaly detection per catalog item, environment and team — surfacing misconfiguration, drift and security anomalies.

Natural language queries

Query resource state, execution history and dependency relationships in plain language, without writing structured queries.

Intent-to-execution translation

Agents select the correct template, infer parameters from inventory context and validate scope, then surface a structured plan for approval.

Risk scoring & blast radius

Pre-execution risk assessment combining dependency data, policy results and historical outcomes into a per-run score and blast-radius estimate.

RCA & predictive operations

Ranked hypothesis chains with supporting evidence across logs, telemetry and lineage; emerging failure patterns identified before incidents.

Domain 05

ITSM & service management

Change governance that writes itself. ServiceNow, Jira and Confluence are stitched into the execution timeline so the paperwork is a product of the work, not a separate task.

Service management integration

5 features

ServiceNow RITM & CMDB

Request items, CMDB context injection and full change lifecycle governance with status feedback into the execution record.

Change lifecycle governance

Change records created, linked and closed against real execution outcomes rather than manually reconciled after the fact.

Jira linkage

Story, issue and sprint traceability connecting delivery work to the infrastructure changes it produced.

Confluence documentation

Automated documentation updates so runbooks and architecture pages track what actually shipped.

End-to-end traceability

A single timeline from request through approval, policy decision, execution and observability signal.

Domain 06

Diagnostics & observability

A catalog-delivered diagnostics microservice with Ansible-based checks, wired into your telemetry so alerts can trigger governed remediation instead of a page.

Diagnostics & telemetry

4 features

Diagnostics microservice

Catalog-delivered diagnostic workflows with Ansible-based checks, executed under the same policy and audit controls as any other run.

Datadog, Splunk & Elastic

Telemetry integration for SLO monitoring, deploy gating and correlation during incident investigation.

Event-driven remediation

Observability events trigger catalog-delivered remediation workflows automatically, closing the loop from alert to governed action.

SLO-aware change gates

Deployments evaluated against active SLO burn rates and deploy monitors before execution proceeds, with automated rollback gates.

Domain 07

Secrets & credential hardening

Credentials that exist only for the length of a run, injected at execution time, never written into a template or an inventory file.

Credential controls

4 features

Dynamic credential issuance

Short-lived credentials issued per run and revoked on completion.

Vault, Akeyless & cloud KMS

HashiCorp Vault, Akeyless, AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault and GCP KMS integration.

Runtime secret injection

Secrets injected at execution time — never stored in catalog templates, Ansible inventories or Terraform variables.

Credential drift detection

Detection of credential configuration drift across connected engines and environments.

Domain 08

FinOps & cost governance

Spend is treated as a policy input, not a monthly report. Estimated cost is evaluated at the same gate as security and compliance, and allocation metadata is enforced at provisioning time so showback and chargeback are possible without a reconciliation project.

Cost governance & allocation

6 features

Pre-execution cost estimation

Terraform plan output is priced before approval. Reviewers see the monthly spend delta next to the resource diff, so cost is a decision input rather than a discovery next quarter.

Budget policy gates

OPA/Rego policies evaluate estimated spend against thresholds, remaining budget or forecast variance. Runs that breach can be blocked outright or escalated for additional approval.

Tag-driven cost allocation

The Tag Registry enforces cost-centre, owner and business-unit tags at provisioning time across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and Kubernetes — the untagged-resource problem is prevented, not reported.

Cost-aware inventory correlation

Billing and usage data joined to the live inventory graph, so spend is attributable to a resource, an owner, a service and the execution that created it.

Showback & chargeback reporting

Allocation views by team, business unit, environment and application, sourced from enforced tags rather than best-effort spreadsheets.

Forecast variance detection

Deviation between forecast and actual spend surfaced against the executions and configuration changes that caused it.

Cost optimisation automation

6 features

Idle & orphaned resource detection

Inventory-driven identification of unattached volumes, idle instances, stale snapshots and orphaned load balancers, with catalog-delivered cleanup workflows.

Rightsizing remediation

Optimisation recommendations delivered as governed catalog items, so acting on them still passes through approval, policy and audit.

Scheduled start / stop automation

Non-production environment scheduling as a catalog service, with policy-enforced exceptions for environments that must stay up.

Commitment & reservation coverage

Visibility into Reserved Instance, Savings Plan and committed-use coverage against live inventory, highlighting uncovered steady-state workloads.

Kubernetes cost allocation

Namespace, workload and team-level cost attribution via Kubecost and OpenCost, correlated to the cluster inventory graph.

AI cost anomaly detection

Agents learn normal spend patterns per team, environment and service, flagging anomalies with the probable causal change rather than a raw billing alert.

Domain 09

Integration coverage

Cantilever sits above your toolchain. These are the systems it governs, reads and writes today.

Coverage

6 features

Cloud & Kubernetes

AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, OpenShift, RKE2, EKS, AKS, GKE.

CI/CD & IaC

Terraform / Terraform Cloud, Ansible Automation Platform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Harness, Azure DevOps.

Security & IAM

OIDC/SAML, HashiCorp Vault, Akeyless, AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP KMS, OPA/Rego.

ITSM & observability

ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Datadog, Splunk, Elastic.

FinOps & cost

Infracost, AWS Cost Explorer/CUR, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing, Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, Kubecost, OpenCost.

AI & models

Anthropic (Claude), AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, IBM watsonx, private/self-hosted model deployment for sovereign environments.

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