Leveraging the WebAssembly binary instruction format, Cosmonic has launched wasmCloud-based Cosmonic Control, an enterprise control plane for managing distributed applications. Introduced March 24, this control plane can be used across any cloud, Kubernetes, any edge, or for on-premises or self-hosted deployments.
Enterprise platform engineering teams using Cosmonic Control can create polyglot golden templates and components, enabling developers to write applications and deploy them anywhere, the company said. Cosmonic Control supports wasmCloud, a WebAssembly-based (Wasm) orchestration platform for building Wasm apps, and addresses challenges to scaling and distributing applications on containerized platforms. WasmCloud is co-maintained by Cosmonic. Cosmonic Control is intended for platform teams who want a standard set of controls, templates, and processes in order to work securely without sacrificing velocity.
Scaling and distributing applications on a containerized platforms has a high cost, with more than 80% of container spend wasted because of long cold-start times and other issues, and 50% of development time wasted on patching dependencies and maintaining boilerplate code. Cosmonic Control enables platform engineering teams to maintain and update applications at scale while letting developers build new features. A unified control plane is provided for managing WebAssembly workloads from a single interface.