SuperPlane: The Bridge Over the "Glue Abyss"
The Control Plane Your Platform Team Has Been Gluing Together Manually Platform engineering teams write a lot of glue. CI finishes — someone triggers a deploy script. An alert fires — someone pings Slack, opens a Jira, checks the last five deployments manually. A release train needs three repos to be green before the coordinated push — someone watches dashboards and hits the button when the moment looks right. This glue lives in a dozen places: GitHub Actions, bash scripts, cron jobs, Slack bots, Rundeck, internal wikis with “runbook” in the title. It works, until it doesn’t — and when it doesn’t, nobody knows which piece failed or why. ...