Control Plane Secure Communications Agent

What do you like best about the product?

I like that I can set up a cloud for my app in a matter of minutes and get right to writing and hosting logic, as opposed to regular cloud providers that take hours, if not days, just to get a simple backend deployed. I also love how Control Plane lets me pick and choose cloud providers to best suit my needs. It minimizes dev ops and allows me to focus directly on writing the business logic for my applications without worrying about infrastructure setup and management. Once the cloud provider accounts are set up, it's quite fast to get something straightforward and simple up and running.

What do you dislike about the product?

Control Plane is quite complex and intimidating to get started with due to its impressive and heady feature set. This can make it challenging initially to get going. Using templates could be beneficial in understanding how everything fits together, as getting something concrete and "blessed" up and running makes it easier to play and explore the features.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Control Plane minimizes DevOps overhead, letting me focus on writing business logic without worrying about infrastructure. It allows quick setup and hosting of apps, choosing cloud providers to suit needs.

What do you like best about the product?

I find Control Plane extremely valuable for its ease of use, acting as a centralized area to manage my application stack. It's like a backstage for Kubernetes, making it seamless to handle everything. I also love how it simplifies global load balancing, especially during capacity issues or failures, easing what would otherwise be a complicated process. Additionally, its ability to manage multi-cloud environments without many connectors is really efficient. The initial setup was very easy too, which I appreciate.

What do you dislike about the product?

I think Control Plane could benefit from more integration with third-party products. It works well with cloud and environment management, but adding functionalities like hooking telemetry in could provide even more value. Having it act more like a centralized controller would be great.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Control Plane helps manage multi-cloud environments efficiently without needing many connectors, simplifies global load balancing, and centralizes my application stack, streamlining GRC processes in a modernized stack.

What do you like best about the product?

Control plane provides companies with platform engineering as a service that’s more secure and scalable than most teams can realistically build on their own. That frees up your engineering team to spend more time focused on your direct value proposition, instead of maintaining the underlying platform.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing to complain about—their platform does what it claims, and the team is great and responsive whenever I've needed help.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

This improved our Kubernetes setup in a previous business and let us shift staff focus toward more valuable areas of the product roadmap.

What do you like best about the product?

What I value most is how easy it is to manage our infrastructure. We don’t have a dedicated platform engineer, and Control Plane helps us keep our headcount down while still staying on top of things. I also appreciate the updates that introduce new, important features. Overall, it’s straightforward for technical folks to get up and running with.

What do you dislike about the product?

At times, the interface can make it harder to access certain features. I understand it’s necessary to support a rich feature set, but the added complexity can still slow things down when I’m trying to move quickly.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It’s easy to scale as we grow. With auto-scaling, we can set clear thresholds and not have to worry about whether our infrastructure will handle high-usage periods followed by low-usage periods. It saves money and gives us real peace of mind.

What do you like best about the product?

We have been using Control Plane for four years and have seen it grow and evolve quite a bit during that time. The first thing that stands out is their support. Whenever we have had an issue, they have been very quick to respond and help us get it resolved.

We also enjoy the cost savings we get whether using a single cloud provider or multiple cloud providers.

Their Cloud Wormhole technology has also been very useful for us. It allows us to securely access databases and other resources across one or more cloud providers without having to expose those resources publicly.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is not much we dislike about Control Plane. After using it for four years, we have not run into any significant drawbacks or tradeoffs that stand out. When we have encountered problems, their team has been quick to address and resolve them.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The biggest problem Control Plane solves for us is cost. We are able to save on our cloud infrastructure costs while still having the flexibility to use one or multiple cloud providers.