Solution use cases

Built for every team in the enterprise.

Persona-specific outcomes for modernization, governance, AI-driven operations, and enterprise standardization — from the CISO to the on-call SRE.

Executive leadership

CIO / CTO — Platform Modernization

Consolidate fragmented toolchains into one governed control plane without rip-and-replace migration risk. Cortex overlays your existing investments — Terraform, Ansible, ServiceNow, Datadog — and unifies them behind a single governed execution layer.

Eliminate toolchain fragmentation

Replace disconnected automation scripts, runbooks, and pipelines with a governed Service Catalog that standardizes how every team provisions, configures, and operates infrastructure — without replacing existing tools.

Accelerate cloud transformation

Deploy approved cloud landing zones and platform patterns as versioned Stacks. Engineering teams self-serve against pre-approved templates, accelerating transformation timelines without creating governance gaps.

Reduce operational risk

Policy-as-Code enforcement and immutable audit logs ensure every infrastructure change is validated, approved, and traceable — giving leadership confidence that speed and governance are not in conflict.

Maximize existing investments

Cortex sits above your current stack. Terraform, Ansible, ServiceNow, Jira, Datadog, and Splunk continue to operate as-is — connected and governed through a unified control plane rather than replaced.

Security leadership

CISO — Zero Trust DevSecOps

Identity-driven execution, policy gates, runtime secrets, and immutable audit trails aligned to compliance requirements. Security controls are embedded at every execution step — not applied as a post-deployment afterthought.

Zero Trust execution architecture

Every automation run is authenticated via OIDC/SAML, scoped with JIT least-privilege access, and terminated with automatic credential revocation. No standing privilege. No static credentials in pipelines.

Policy-as-Code at every gate

OPA/Rego policies enforce infrastructure standards, tag compliance, environment scope, and identity constraints before any change is applied — producing structured violation reports with remediation guidance.

Runtime secret injection

Secrets from HashiCorp Vault, Akeyless, AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, and GCP KMS are injected at execution time per run. Never stored in catalog templates, Ansible inventories, or Terraform variables.

Compliance-ready audit trails

Immutable execution lineage captures the authenticated identity, applied permissions, policy decisions, inputs, and outputs of every run — providing audit-ready evidence for SOC 2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, and internal controls.

Platform engineering

Platform Engineer — Self-Service at Scale

Self-service catalog actions for provisioning, Day-2 ops, and diagnostics — governed by policy, no ticket queue required. Cortex lets platform teams deliver internal developer experiences without sacrificing standards or operational control.

Governed self-service catalog

Publish approved provisioning, configuration, and diagnostics workflows as parameterized catalog items. Development teams self-serve within guardrails — no direct access to underlying tooling required.

Stack-based reference architectures

Define approved platform patterns — Kubernetes clusters, database tiers, network topologies — as versioned Stacks. Teams deploy consistent, compliant architectures without custom scripting or tribal knowledge.

Eliminate ticket bottlenecks

Common Day-2 operations — scaling, patching, certificate rotation, diagnostics — are available on demand via the catalog. Runbooks become executable, traceable catalog items instead of documentation artifacts.

Multi-tenant platform delivery

Serve multiple teams and business units from a single platform instance with tenant-isolated catalog scopes, role-based visibility, and shared policy governance at the platform layer.

BYO automation ingestion

Bring existing Ansible playbooks, Terraform modules, and CI/CD pipelines into the catalog without rewriting. Secure execution boundaries and policy enforcement are applied at ingestion time.

Full execution visibility

Every catalog run produces an immutable execution record with logs, input parameters, output artifacts, and approval history — giving platform teams complete operational observability without manual log aggregation.

DevSecOps engineering

DevSecOps Engineer — AI Day-2 Operations

Shift from reactive support to proactive automation with anomaly detection, guided remediation, and linked evidence. Agentic AI agents surface risk, context, and recommendations so engineers spend time solving problems — not finding them.

AI-assisted diagnostics

Diagnostic agents correlate execution history, inventory state, and observability telemetry to surface probable causes and recommended actions — without manual log triage across disconnected systems.

Anomaly detection & pattern learning

Behavioral anomaly detection across automation runs identifies deviations from normal execution patterns — surfacing misconfiguration, drift, and security anomalies before they become incidents.

Event-driven remediation

Observability events from Datadog, Splunk, and Elastic trigger catalog-delivered remediation workflows automatically — closing the loop from alert to governed action within the execution framework.

Linked change evidence

Every remediation action is traceable end-to-end — ServiceNow change records, Jira issue links, Datadog deploy events, and execution logs are connected in a single audit-ready timeline.

Enterprise architecture

Enterprise Architecture — Multi-Cloud Governance & Reference Stacks

Define and enforce reference architectures as versioned Stacks across every cloud and Kubernetes environment. Cortex gives enterprise architects the controls to codify standards and the visibility to verify they are being followed — continuously, not periodically.

Reference architecture as code

Define approved architectures — cloud landing zones, Kubernetes platforms, application patterns — as versioned Stacks. Stacks codify configurations, tagging standards, and metadata requirements that all deployments must satisfy.

Multi-cloud policy consistency

Consistent Policy-as-Code enforcement across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes. The same governance standards apply regardless of which cloud or region a team is operating in.

Continuous drift detection

Deployed environments are continuously validated against their Stack definition. Drift events are surfaced in real time with full context — which resource drifted, from what baseline, and who owns it.

Metadata & tag governance

Centralized Tag Registry enforces mandatory tagging standards across all provisioning workflows. Tags sourced from CMDB, HR, and Finance taxonomies are propagated automatically via Terraform, Ansible, and ServiceNow injection.

Inventory intelligence

Real-time cross-domain inventory with dependency correlation — infrastructure ↔ platform ↔ database mapping. Architecture reviews are grounded in live resource state, not stale CMDB snapshots.

Automated remediation paths

Drift and policy violations can trigger automated or catalog-driven remediation workflows — governed by the same approval gates and audit trails as any other platform operation.

Cloud transformation

Cloud Transformation — Secure Landing Zones

Approval-gated landing zone automation using Terraform and Ansible, with ITSM-linked change governance from day one. Cortex ensures that cloud migrations and modernization programs are fast, secure, and auditable at every step.

Landing zone automation

Deploy approved cloud landing zones as versioned Stacks — VPC architecture, IAM baselines, network segmentation, and security controls provisioned consistently across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.

ITSM-linked change governance

Every landing zone deployment and configuration change is backed by a ServiceNow change record, Jira issue, and immutable execution log — providing governance evidence from initial provisioning through operational handoff.

Approval-gated promotion

Environment promotion from Dev through Test to Production requires policy clearance and explicit approval gate satisfaction — preventing untested configurations from reaching production cloud environments.

Continuous compliance validation

Post-deployment drift detection validates live landing zone configurations against approved baselines. Compliance posture is monitored continuously — not assessed at point-in-time audit intervals.

Site Reliability Engineering

SRE — enterprise standardization

Site Reliability Engineering — Enterprise Standardization

How Cortex delivers the consistency, repeatability, and operational confidence SRE teams require at enterprise scale — from standardized runbook execution to SLO-aware change governance and AI-assisted incident resolution.

Standardized runbook execution

Operationalize runbooks as versioned Service Catalog items — ensuring every SRE runs the same validated, policy-approved procedure every time, with full execution traceability and no manual drift between teams or shifts.

Stack-based reliability blueprints

Define approved reliability patterns — health checks, circuit breakers, scaling policies, and alerting thresholds — as reusable Stacks. Enforce consistent SRE standards across every service, team, and cloud environment.

Incident response automation

Catalog-driven incident response workflows trigger Ansible-based diagnostics, correlated telemetry from Datadog, Splunk, and Elastic, and pre-approved remediation playbooks — reducing MTTR without bypassing change controls.

AI-assisted root cause analysis

Agentic AI agents correlate execution history, inventory state, and observability telemetry to surface probable root causes and recommend remediation paths — accelerating incident resolution and reducing cognitive load on on-call engineers.

SLO-aware change governance

Every deployment and configuration change is evaluated against active SLO burn rates and Datadog deploy monitors before execution proceeds. Automated rollback gates enforce reliability standards without requiring manual intervention.

Drift detection & continuous compliance

Continuously validate live environments against their Stack definition and approved baseline. Detect configuration drift in real time across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes, with policy-governed remediation paths triggered automatically or on demand.

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