A hosted control plane for Kubernetes operators

Your own Kubernetes API. No nodes to run.

Apply your CRDs, deploy your controller's image, and let it reconcile what lives outside Kubernetes: cloud resources such as virtual machines, DNS records and databases, or any other external API.

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$ brew install alperencelik/tap/ctrlplane

You$ kubectl apply -f vm.yaml

Your control plane

hosted by ctrlplane

CRDs
RBAC
Webhooks
a36zvvf2xg.api.ctrlplane.run

watches

Your controller

ghcr.io/you/vm-operator:v1.4.0

running

reconciles

The outside world

Virtual machines
DNS records
Databases
Any external resource

From operator to running, in three commands

Create a control plane
An API server of its own, on an endpoint of its own.ctrlplane create dev --wait
Apply your CRDs
The API types your operator defines, with kubectl or the ctrlplane CLI.ctrlplane apply -f crds/
Deploy your controller
Any image. It runs next to your API with a kubeconfig for it, plus logs and metrics.ctrlplane controllers

Everything around the operator, handled

You write the reconcile loop. ctrlplane runs the API it talks to, the process it runs in, and the path to the systems it manages.

Your API serverCRDs, RBAC and kubectl, on an endpoint of its own.
Your controllersAny image, run next to it. Edit, restart or remove them from the console.
Your networkReached through a tunnel. No inbound ports.
Metrics, logs and eventsReconcile rates, pod resources and searchable logs for every controller.

$ ctrlplane login
Opening your browser to sign in.
Signed in to https://app.ctrlplane.run.
$ ctrlplane create dev --wait
Creating alice-dev...
alice-dev is ready at https://a36zvvf2xg.api.ctrlplane.run. Next: ctrlplane use dev
$ ctrlplane use dev
Switched to context "ctrlplane-alice-dev".
$ ctrlplane apply -f crds/
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/virtualmachines.example.com created
$ ctrlplane controllers
NAME          READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
vm-operator   true    Running   0          12s
$

Bring your operator.

ctrlplane is in early access and under active development.

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