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CAP

Application Platform

Stop shifting infrastructure left.

Application developers and agents already have enough to do. So why do we keep torturing them with the sharpest edges of cloud infrastructure?

CAP is a human-and-agent friendly alternative to traditional infra automation, focused on applications, and built on top of the CNCF landscape. And we're open sourcing it over the next year. We hope you'll join us on the journey!

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The CAP M.O.

Let's dig into CAP's core ethos.

App-centric model

CAP thinks about applications like app devs. Applications are modeled as a collection of high-level resources, not as raw infra.

One platform spanning multiple clouds

GCP, AWS and Azure are already supported, with more on the way. App devs don't need to be experts in any of them.

Enterprise-class governance

All change is coerced through a single auditable path.

Multiple resource types

Databases, object storage buckets, caches, streaming topics and more.

Minimal cognitive load

CAP uses implicit contracts for access, workload identity and networking.

Opinionated externals, adaptable internals

While the platform interface is simple, CAP resource adapters can front a wide variety of infra technologies.

Safe for agents

By eliminating access to raw infra, CAP reduces context collapse and stops agentic mistakes (like deleting prod databases!)

The CAP Application Model

CAP's control plane splits applications into their constiuent resources. Each resource is backed by an abstract model that CAP adapts into specific underlying technologies.

Registry API

Create applications, manage teams, and authenticate with the platform.

Service API

Deploy and manage containerized backends, frontends, and more.

Database API

Provision and operate Postgres databases.

Bucket API

Provision and manage object storage buckets.

Topic API

Create and manage Kafka streaming topics.

Cache API

Provision and operate Redis caches.

Future APIs

The abstractions will continue until morale improves.

App Identity API

Cloud native identity and access management for resources across an application.

Open Source Roadmap

We want to build CAP with the community.

  1. Now

    • Registry API
    • Source released under Apache 2.0 license

  2. Early 2027

    • Service API, App Identity API
    • CAP UI, capctl
    • Builds available in public registries

  3. Late 2027

    • Database API, Bucket API, Cache API, Topic API
    • Development moves to the open source GitHub org
    • Project governance established