Cosmonic uses WebAssembly to manage apps

Leveraging the WebAssembly binary instruction format, Cosmonic has launched wasmCloud-based Cosmonic Control, an enterprise control plane for managing distributed applications. Introduced March 24, this control plane can be used across any cloud, Kubernetes, any edge, or for on-premises or self-hosted deployments.

Enterprise platform engineering teams using Cosmonic Control can create polyglot golden templates and components, enabling developers to write applications and deploy them anywhere, the company said. Cosmonic Control supports wasmCloud, a WebAssembly-based (Wasm) orchestration platform for building Wasm apps, and addresses challenges to scaling and distributing applications on containerized platforms. WasmCloud is co-maintained by Cosmonic. Cosmonic Control is intended for platform teams who want a standard set of controls, templates, and processes in order to work securely without sacrificing velocity.

Scaling and distributing applications on a containerized platforms has a high cost, with more than 80% of container spend wasted because of long cold-start times and other issues, and 50% of development time wasted on patching dependencies and maintaining boilerplate code. Cosmonic Control enables platform engineering teams to maintain and update applications at scale while letting developers build new features. A unified control plane is provided for managing WebAssembly workloads from a single interface.

Interested parties can book a demo of Cosmonic Control. The company cites the following key benefits:

Cosmonic Control scales applications to zero with zero cold starts and executes in a tiny footprint, which lowers cloud costs.

Platform engineers can fit more workloads on existing hardware.

Developers can build Wasm components, which are small units of code that interoperate with other components written in any other language.

Secure Wasm sandboxes ensure that each component operates safely.

Cosmonic Control also launches with a BYOC (bring your own cloud) service. Customers can deploy WasmCloud infrastructure inside their own cloud. Platform engineering teams then have access to an enterprise-grade suite of observability tools, guardrails, and control to ensure their platform can scale.