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Designing a Control Plane for Cloud Infrastructure: Governance, State, and Continuous Orchestration | Harness Resource | Harness

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.

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April 16, 2026

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What you'll learn

Key Takeaways

Consolidate Tools into a Single Control Plane

Merging provisioning, configuration management, and deployments creates a single source of truth. This unified approach prevents system drift and significantly reduces diagnostic time when issues arise.

Enforce Governance with Design-Time Validation

Embed policies directly into the design phase to automatically block unauthorized infrastructure changes. This ensures compliance before any code is actually planned or applied.

Monitor and Remediate Infrastructure Drift

Continuous monitoring detects when actual infrastructure diverges from the expected code base. Identifying exact attribute-level discrepancies allows teams to restore normal states before major problems occur.

Maintain Full Auditability and State History

Capture historical state versions and exact configuration deltas with strict role-based access control. This provides a complete audit trail of who made changes and which commit triggered them.

Centralize Multi-Level Policy Management

Manage foundational, platform, and application-level policies from a central system. This structured approach prevents policy sprawl while maintaining consistent security standards across the organization.