Control Plane

What Control Plane is

Control Plane turns cloud infrastructure chosen by the customer into a virtualized cloud for deploying workloads. It supports combinations of bare metal, Kubernetes, and regions from AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI. Workloads can be containers, virtual machines, or ephemeral isolated sandboxes. Universal Cloud Identity is designed to give services access across clouds without embedding credentials in workloads. Networking features include a service mesh, per-workload firewalls, and outbound-only Cloud Wormhole tunnels to private networks. The platform also lists infrastructure provisioning, governance policies, infrastructure as code, role-based access control, audit logs, and Kubernetes management. Named integrations include Terraform, Pulumi, Datadog, Logz.io, and Coralogix. Control Plane says its Capacity AI right-sizes resources and that most customers cut their cloud bill by 30–50%. Usage-based pricing is billed monthly; listed rates are $0.06205654 per millicore-month for CPU, $0.00706330 per megabyte-month for memory, and $0.21224989 per GB-month for general purpose SSD. The first 100 GB-months of observability storage and first 50M metrics samples are free. NVIDIA GPU compute is billed per second, subject to availability.

Who it suits

Control Plane is aimed at development teams that want to deploy workloads across infrastructure they choose. It may suit teams working across cloud providers, Kubernetes, and bare metal.

Limits

The first 100 GB-months of observability storage and first 50M metrics samples are free. Other listed usage rates include CPU at $0.06205654 per millicore-month, memory at $0.00706330 per megabyte-month, and general purpose SSD at $0.21224989 per GB-month; NVIDIA GPU compute is billed per second and subject to availability.

Getting started

1. Visit https://controlplane.com/.
2. Choose a supported route: API, Linux, self-hosted, or web.
3. Select infrastructure from supported bare metal, Kubernetes, and cloud regions.
4. Deploy a container, virtual machine, or isolated sandbox workload.
5. Connect infrastructure and observability tools as needed.

Verdict

Control Plane combines deployment, identity, networking, and governance across selected infrastructure. Teams should account for its usage-based charges and GPU availability when assessing fit.