Plan, approve, execute, and roll back infrastructure changes across cloud, network, identity, Kubernetes, endpoints, and security systems — from one control plane.
Nexplane is the control plane for infrastructure change.
# Patch critical Linux hosts across fleet
change_type: patch_os
targets: tag:criticality=high # 34 hosts
prechecks: disk_space, service_health
postchecks: reachability, service_health
rollback: restore_snapshot
► Lifecycle: Discover → Plan → Approve → Execute
► Blast radius: 34 hosts · 0 dependent services at risk
► Approved by: platform-lead@acme.com
✓ 34/34 hosts patched · services healthy
✓ Rollback snapshot retained · audit trail writtenWorks across your infrastructure
Terraform provisions. ServiceNow tickets. Datadog monitors. Backstage catalogs. Each tool owns a fragment. No system owns end-to-end infrastructure change execution — the gaps live between them.
Terraform, Pulumi, and CDK manage infrastructure state — but not operational changes, security remediations, or credential rotations.
ServiceNow and Jira track intent. They don't execute changes, verify results, or maintain rollback state. The gap between ticket and action is manual.
Datadog and Prometheus tell you when something broke. They don't tell you which change caused it or how to undo it safely.
The result: tribal knowledge, manual execution, no rollback plan, and an audit trail that lives in Slack.
Nexplane turns scattered infrastructure work into controlled, auditable, reversible change workflows.
Not the exotic stuff — the ordinary, high-stakes operations every team puts off because there's no safe way to do them. Here's each one, reviewable and reversible.
Access has to disappear from everywhere — AD, SSH, cloud IAM, SSO, VPN — and "everywhere" is a list nobody has in full.
one reviewed change that revokes across every system, verifies nothing was missed, and can restore access if the wrong person got caught in it.
In design — talk to usYou can't safely rotate a shared secret until you know every service that reads it — and that list doesn't exist. Miss one and it fails silently, days later.
find every consumer, update them together, verify connectivity, and roll the whole thing back if anything can't reach the new secret.
AvailableThe patch is easy. The fear is the reboot on the box nobody fully understands, with no tested way back if it doesn't come up.
capture the exact state first, patch with pre- and post-checks, and restore the prior state if a host doesn't come back.
AvailableThe over-broad rule everyone knows is wrong — or an incident where you need to block something now. You can't prove what depends on it, and there's no clean undo.
a reviewed change with a real rollback — and for emergencies, a block that auto-expires so a temporary rule doesn't become permanent.
AvailableThe role with far more access than it uses, that nobody will touch — because you can't see what it actually uses, and tightening it wrong breaks a job at month-end.
change it through a reviewed, reversible request, so a wrong guess is a quick undo instead of a 2am reconstruction.
AvailableThe cert expiring in three weeks that fourteen services quietly depend on. Rotate it wrong and you take those services down.
rotate with the dependents mapped, verify the chain end to end, and roll back if validation fails.
In design — talk to usYou don't touch these for years — you expect them to keep working — and then an end-of-life date, a CVE, or a vendor forces your hand. The problem was never willingness. It's that there's no safe way back if it goes wrong.
The distro hits end of life — no more security patches — so you're forced to move, on the box nobody wants to reboot, running an app whose engineers are long gone.
capture the exact machine state, upgrade reversibly, verify the app comes back, and restore the prior state in minutes if it doesn't.
In design — talk to usThe 8-year-old app on dying hardware. Containerizing it is never just a Dockerfile — it's the dependencies, secrets, and state nobody documented, and you find out what you missed in production.
capture what the app actually needs, move it as a reviewed change, and keep the old one intact so you can fall back until the new one is proven.
In design — talk to usThe brittle, load-bearing thing everyone routes around — until a dependency goes EOL, a CVE lands, or an auditor asks, and it's suddenly mandatory, on a deadline.
make the change reversible so you can actually start — snapshot, change, verify, roll back — instead of leaving it because touching it feels worse than ignoring it.
In design — talk to usEvery enterprise has forgotten why infrastructure exists. Nexplane remembers the approvals, owners, dependencies, timelines, and rollback plans behind every change.
Most tools tell you what happened. Nexplane tells you what will happen — before you execute. Simulate blast radius, map dependency chains, and validate rollback strategy before any change touches production.
Relationships are what make changes safe or dangerous. Nexplane maps the connections between every asset so you understand dependencies before you act.
Continuous scanning surfaces prioritized, actionable recommendations. One click creates a change request — with prechecks, rollback plan, and approval gate already attached.
Every change should have a rollback plan, validation checks, last-known-good state, and audit trail. Most platforms claim rollback capability. Nexplane verifies it — every change type ships with a live smoke test that executes the change, triggers the rollback, and confirms the system returned to its prior state. Against real infrastructure, not mocks.
| Nexplane | Terraform | Ansible | ServiceNow | AWS SSM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End-to-end change workflow | ✓ | ✗ (infra only) | partial | tickets only | ✗ |
| Typed rollback per operation | ✓ | ✗ (destroy/re-apply) | ✗ (write your own) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Impact simulation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Infrastructure memory | ✓ | state file only | ✗ | tickets only | ✗ |
| Live rollback verification | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| MCP server for AI agents | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Everything available in the UI is accessible through Nexplane's MCP server. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and internal agents can reason about and act on infrastructure — without direct cloud access.
The agent never touches infrastructure directly. It proposes. The control plane validates, approves, executes, verifies — and can always undo.
Organized by workflow domain — not a logo wall.
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