Cosmonic Launches Cosmonic Control: WebAssembly for Enterprise

ARLINGTON, Va., March 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cosmonic announces the launch of Cosmonic Control, a control plane for managing distributed applications across any cloud, any Kubernetes, any edge, or on premise and self-hosted deployment. With Cosmonic Control, enterprise platform engineering teams create polyglot golden templates and components, allowing developers to write applications once and deploy them anywhere.

Platform teams want a standard set of controls, templates, and processes for their teams, so they can work securely without sacrificing velocity. Unfortunately, scaling and distributing applications on containerized platforms comes at a high cost. Datadog's 2024 State of Cloud report reveals over 80% of container spend is wasted as a result of long cold start times, low resource density, and idle infrastructure. And, because applications are so tightly-coupled to infrastructure, 50% of development time is wasted on patching dependencies and constantly maintaining boilerplate code, rather than shipping new products or features.

"It's easy to deploy a thousand applications on Kubernetes, but can you maintain them?" asks Cosmonic CEO Liam Randall. "Cosmonic Control enables platform engineering teams to maintain, migrate, and update applications at scale letting developers focus on what they're good at: building new features."

Built on wasmCloud, the incubating CNCF Wasm-native orchestration platform which is co-maintained by the team at Cosmonic, Cosmonic Control addresses these challenges. It provides a unified control plane for managing WebAssembly workloads from a single interface.

• Lower cloud costs: Cosmonic Control automatically scales applications to zero with zero cold starts and executes in a tiny footprint. Platform engineers can fit significantly more workloads on their existing hardware.
• Developer efficiency: Developers build and deploy WebAssembly (Wasm) components: small units of code that interoperate with other components written in any language; massively increasing the re-usability of code. Components combine to create one set of centrally-managed applications that can be used and reused anywhere.
• Security: Cosmonic Control uses secure Wasm sandboxes to ensure that each component operates safely and efficiently, while also facilitating rapid deployment and scalability. Components are isolated within a single build chain, making security updates simple.

Bailey Hayes, Cosmonic CTO says: "Cosmonic Control finally makes it easy for the enterprise to adopt and scale Wasm in their own environments. Customers create new cluster deployments, deploy and manage applications, within their own marketplace accounts. We bring this together into a single control plane with support for OIDC, OpenTelemetry, GitOps Integrations, and Internal Developer Platforms like Backstage, and Kubernetes."

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)

Cosmonic Control launches with a BYOC service: customers deploy wasmCloud infrastructure inside their own cloud. Platform engineering teams then have access to an enterprise-grade suite of observability tools, guardrails, and controls to ensure their platform can scale to any size and complexity.

Developers are saved from expensive maintenance cycles while enabling platform teams to keep applications up-to-date in real-time. With per-invocation execution and instant scaling, components can always be started with the most recent version of dependencies. 

Cosmonic plans to introduce self-hosted and fully-managed services later this year.

Under the hood

Operations: Cosmonic Control ships with new Kubernetes CRDs for wasmCloud, components, and plugins. Cosmonic manages the entire life cycle, from install to exit and upgrade–all integrated with existing Kubernetes-native systems.

Multi-tenancy with OIDC (OpenID Connect). Plugs into enterprise OIDC which brings in teams and groups straight from Microsoft Entra ID. The same processes used to build and run teams today are pulled straight into Cosmonic Control.

Enterprise-grade security: Ships with zero-fault Chainguard images, an SBOM for granular image visibility which is configured to run without root execution, and SSO Integration.

Full support for OpenTelemetry. Central configuration and management for OTEL; logging, tracing, metrics, and alerts can be pointed towards existing Splunk, Datadog, and Honeycomb deployments.

Improved developer experience: Idiomatic approach for multi-language deployments in Go, TypeScript, Rust / C / C++, with Microsoft .NET, Python, Java and more in the roadmap.

Industry-wide integration with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKS), ECS, Fargate, Google Cloud Run, Bare Metal, Akamai, on prem, bespoke edges. Cosmonic Control will also appear in a range of popular marketplaces in the coming months.

And much more.

Cosmonic Control will be demoed for the first time at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, taking place 1st - 4th April, in London. Visit Cosmonic booth S680 in the Solutions Showcase, and stop by the CNCF wasmCloud booth on Wednesday 2nd April, all afternoon and through KubeCrawl in the evening.

To get started with Cosmonic Control, book a demo.

Analyst reaction

Paul Nashawaty, Practice Lead and Principal Analyst at theCUBE Research

As organizations continue to embrace cloud-native architectures, the complexity of managing distributed applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments remains a significant challenge. According to a recent survey, 78% of organizations use Kubernetes in production, yet many struggle with application portability where 20% of organizations state this is critically impacting operational consistency," states Paul Nashawaty, Practice Lead and Principal Analyst at theCUBE Research. "Cosmonic Control addresses this gap by providing enterprise platform engineering teams with a powerful control plane to standardize deployments across any cloud, Kubernetes cluster, or edge environment. By enabling polyglot golden templates and reusable components, Cosmonic empowers developers to build once and deploy anywhere—accelerating innovation while maintaining governance and efficiency.

Matthew Flug, Research Manager, Cloud Application Deployment Platforms at IDC

WebAssembly continues to gain momentum beyond the browser as enterprises look to leverage its sandboxed environments, portability, high performance, and polyglot flexibility for cloud-native application development," says Matthew Flug, Research Manager, Cloud Application Deployment Platforms at IDC. "With the introduction of Cosmonic Control, a commercial WebAssembly offering, organizations gain a control layer to build, deploy, and manage WebAssembly applications while maintaining the governance and compliance enterprises require. This release reflects the broader industry trend of WebAssembly expanding beyond the browser to support modern enterprise application development and deployment."

Torsten Volk, Principle Analyst, Application Modernization at Enterprise Strategy Group

"Application developers spend only 35% of their time on constructively writing business code and 65% on overhead tasks related to defining, requesting, deploying, configuring, debugging, supporting and scaling the underlying application stack. wasmCloud detangles application code from today's increasingly complex application stacks, allowing platform–and DevOps engineers–to deploy, manage and scale applications without the involvement of developers. This is a major step toward "code once, deploy anywhere" and a direct path toward capturing a good share of these 65% of wasted developer time."

About Cosmonic

Cosmonic is the creator of Cosmonic Control, a control plane for managing enterprise applications across any cloud, edge, or self-hosted Kubernetes deployment. Built on incubating CNCF project, wasmCloud, Cosmonic Control integrates with modern Kubernetes-based ecosystems, but is not dependent upon them. Cosmonic Control reduces the high cost of building and maintaining applications by providing a unified control plane and single interface for managing applications. www.cosmonic.com 

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