Elan8 — The Architecture Control Plane for Microservices
Continuously validate and govern your software architecture across environments with a declarative architecture model.
Continuously validate architecture against deployed reality
Prevent architectural drift and enforce service topology
Govern microservice structure across dev, staging, and production
Microservice Platforms Drift. DevOps Doesn’t Stop It.
CI/CD delivers fast. It does not govern how services connect, what breaks when APIs change, or whether deployed topology matches intent.
Service sprawl
Services multiply; ownership and boundaries blur. Without a single architectural source of truth, no one knows the full dependency graph.
Hidden coupling
Dependencies are discovered when things break. Undeclared calls, cross-domain coupling, and accidental exposure paths accumulate over time.
Breaking APIs
Contract changes ship without impact analysis. Consumers break in production because there is no automated link between API changes and service topology.
Accidental exposure
Internal services end up exposed. New ingress or mesh config creates paths that were never intended, increasing attack surface and compliance risk.
Over time, architecture erodes. DevOps automates delivery; it does not enforce structure.
An Architecture Control Plane
Elan8 establishes a declarative architecture model and continuously validates deployed environments against it. You define intent; Elan8 governs structure.
Architecture as Code
Services, API contracts, dependencies, and exposure intent in a declarative model. Versioned in Git; the single source of truth for how the system should be structured.
Environment-Aware Validation
Each environment (dev, staging, prod) is validated independently. Elan8 reads Kubernetes manifests and deployment artifacts and checks them against your architecture model.
Governance & Policy Enforcement
Enforce no undeclared dependencies, no cyclic dependencies, contracts for inter-service communication, and controlled public exposure. Stricter in production.
Impact Analysis
When a contract changes, Elan8 determines which services consume it, which environments are affected, and whether the change is breaking. Safe evolution at scale.
DevOps vs Architecture Control
DevOps automates delivery. Elan8 governs structure.
| DevOps | Elan8 |
|---|---|
| Automates CI/CD | Governs service topology |
| Deploys infrastructure | Validates architecture intent |
| Monitors runtime | Detects architectural drift |
| Focus: delivery speed | Focus: structural integrity |
Works With Your Existing Kubernetes Platform
No re-architecture or redeployment required. Point Elan8 at your manifests and introduce governance gradually.
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Point Elan8 at your manifests
Define environments that reference your existing Kubernetes manifests or deployment repos.
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Resolve services automatically
Elan8 discovers workloads and maps them to logical services using labels, selectors, and naming conventions.
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Stabilize binding
Refine service identification via labels or explicit mapping until the resolved architecture matches reality.
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Introduce governance gradually
Add policies step by step. Tighten rules as drift is eliminated and the model aligns with deployment.
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Enforce in CI
Run validation in pipelines. Block releases that violate architecture or introduce breaking API changes.
Regain Control of Your Microservice Architecture
Continuously validate and govern your service topology. Prevent drift. Enforce structure.