Designing a Control Plane for Cloud Infrastructure: Governance, State, and Continuous Orchestration | On-demand Webinar | Harness Resources
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Provisioning infrastructure is only the beginning. The real challenge lies in coordinating provisioning, configuration, and continuous change as a single operational system across environments while maintaining compliance, visibility, and developer velocity. As infrastructure estates expand across clouds and teams, fragmented automation creates risk and operational drag.
This session examines how to design a control plane for infrastructure delivery. We’ll cover patterns for policy enforcement, state management, change coordination between provisioning and configuration layers, secrets governance, and cross-team RBAC. We’ll also explore trade-offs between centralized governance and team autonomy, and how platform engineering principles can help organizations scale infrastructure operations without sacrificing speed.
About the speakers:
Mrinalini Sugosh specializes in making complex technologies ranging from cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes to application code, AI-driven developer tools, and CI/CD workflows accessible, practical, and engaging for technical and business audiences. Her experience spans cloud engineering, developer relations, technical product marketing, and content strategy at companies such as IBM, DigitalOcean, TinyMCE, CKEditor, and Harness. She also builds advanced internal AI workflows and is the author of several high-impact guides on modern infrastructure delivery and software development.
Rohit Kaliki is a product leader with a strong engineering background, he is is a builder at heart and is energized by turning ideas into reality. Rohit thrives in fast-paced environments where technical rigor and product vision intersect.
In this webinar, we’ll explore how modern DevOps platforms help bridge this gap by enabling compliance with Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) while building a resilient digital infrastructure.