One orchestration layer for every tool in your stack.
Great tools don’t automatically make a great platform
Terraform can provision infrastructure. Ansible can configure it. Developer portals can provide a front door. Cloud platforms bring their own automation. But as the stack grows, the gaps between those tools become harder to manage.
Who can request what? What requires approval? How are policies enforced? How do multiple tools work together? And who owns the infrastructure after it’s provisioned?
Read part 1: Four layers, one stack
Keep the tools that work. Connect what happens between them.
CloudBolt complements the technologies already in your stack rather than asking you to replace them. Each tool continues doing what it does best, while CloudBolt provides a consistent orchestration and governance layer across them.
Ansible
Keep Ansible focused on execution
Continue using the playbooks and automation your teams already trust. CloudBolt adds governance, approvals, cost controls, and broader workflows around Ansible execution.
Terraform
Extend Terraform beyond provisioning
Let Terraform continue provisioning infrastructure while CloudBolt connects it to self-service, approvals, policies, cost controls, and the rest of the infrastructure lifecycle.
Backstage
Connect Backstage to what happens next
Use Backstage as the developer-facing experience while CloudBolt coordinates the infrastructure workflows, governance, and systems behind each request.
Build a platform around your requirements, not your tools
Every infrastructure environment is different. Your platform should be able to evolve with it.
Choose the execution, provisioning, and developer tools that make sense for your teams. CloudBolt provides a consistent governance and orchestration layer across them, even as the technologies underneath change.
Read part 5: The complementary stack
Get more from the stack you already have
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