Infrastructure Automation
for Professionals

With Polycrate, system administrators and platform teams automate the entire software delivery lifecycle - from provisioning to monitoring. Deterministic, collaborative and compatible with all major tools of the cloud-native ecosystem.

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Vendure
eco
Connext
Portainer
Uelzener Versicherungen
FJD
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OCC
Reiner SCT
Cyrus Industrial
DGS
IEM
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Splix
Schwarze Gruppe
INH
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Vivavis
Avemio Tech
Business Intelligence
Cosanta
Datamints
Rimian
Clade
Cyreen
Inett
Paperless Group
Pikon
PXIO
SaaS Systems
Seven2One
SEWOBE
Taywa
VJupix
UDS
Volkswagen
Liebherr
T-Systems
Vendure
eco
Connext
Portainer
Uelzener Versicherungen
FJD
DWT
OCC
Reiner SCT
Cyrus Industrial
DGS
IEM
nanocosmos
Splix
Schwarze Gruppe
INH
Hades
HiOrg-Server
own3d
Tikfinity
Program51
Buben & Mädchen
Prime Insights
TELTEC
Elevantiq
Moovit
CFTools
Stadt Köln
Vivavis
Avemio Tech
Business Intelligence
Cosanta
Datamints
Rimian
Clade
Cyreen
Inett
Paperless Group
Pikon
PXIO
SaaS Systems
Seven2One
SEWOBE
Taywa
VJupix

What is Polycrate?

Polycrate is a modern automation framework and runtime for Ansible, specifically designed for system administrators and platform teams. It brings container orchestration, configuration management, CI/CD and cloud provisioning together in one place - with a unified workflow for heterogeneous IT infrastructures.

Polycrate CLI

Local Command-Line Tool

The Polycrate CLI is the heart of the ecosystem. It executes actions in Docker containers and guarantees deterministic, reproducible results - independent of the local development environment.

  • Cloud-native toolchain included (Ansible, kubectl, Helm)
  • OCI-based block management
  • Automatic artifact and secrets management
CLI Docker Ansible Kubernetes
Install CLI

Polycrate API

Central Web Platform for Teams

The Polycrate API extends the CLI with a collaborative platform featuring web UI, real-time monitoring, alerting and central configuration management - ideal for Managed Service Providers and Platform Teams.

  • Multi-tenancy for organizations
  • Audit logs for all action runs
  • Endpoint monitoring and alerting
Web-UI Monitoring Alerting Teams
Explore API

Polycrate Hub

Block Marketplace and CLI Downloads

The Polycrate Hub at hub.polycrate.io is the central platform for the Polycrate ecosystem: block discovery, versioning and CLI downloads - all in one place.

  • Curated blocks for Kubernetes, cloud and more
  • Versioned blocks with documentation
  • Self-hosting for air-gapped environments
Blocks Registry OCI Marketplace
Discover Blocks

Polycrate API Features

The Polycrate API extends the CLI with a central web platform featuring real-time monitoring, automatic resource discovery and alerting. The Polycrate Operator automatically synchronizes Kubernetes resources with the API.

Endpoint Monitoring

Endpoint Monitoring

Monitor Availability and Performance

Automatic detection of endpoints from Kubernetes Ingresses. The Polycrate Operator performs HTTP checks directly in the cluster and exports Prometheus metrics for alerting.
Ingress HTTP-Checks Prometheus Alerting
Documentation
Certificate Discovery

Certificate Discovery

Monitor TLS Certificates Centrally

Automatic detection of cert-manager certificates across all clusters. Expiration dates, issuers and status at a glance - with alerting before expiration.
cert-manager TLS Expiration Alerting
Documentation
Backup Overview

Backup Overview

Manage Velero Backups Centrally

Read-only overview of all Velero backups in monitored clusters. Backup status, schedules and history aggregated - with alerting on failures.
Velero Backup-Status Multi-Cluster Alerting
Documentation
K8sApp Discovery

K8sApp Discovery

Automatically Detect Deployed Blocks

The Operator detects Polycrate Blocks via meta-secrets and synchronizes them with the API. Block names, versions and installation status at a glance.
Blocks Meta-Secrets Versions Auto-Discovery
Documentation
Artifact Discovery

Artifact Discovery

Inventory Container Images

Automatic detection of all container images from running pods. Registry, repository, tag and digest are extracted and linked to K8sApps.
Container Images Pods Registry Inventory
Documentation
Endpoint Details

Endpoint Details

Response Times and Status Codes

Detailed metrics for each endpoint: latency, status codes, availability and performance history. Perfect for SLA monitoring and incident response.
Latency Status Codes SLA History
Documentation

Who is Polycrate For?

Polycrate is designed for people and organizations that deliver software as a service to their customers - focusing on determinism, collaboration and automation.

SaaS Providers

Reliable, Reproducible Deployments

Deploy your platform consistently across all environments - from development to production. Polycrate guarantees that every deployment runs identically.
SaaS Deployments Production

Managed Service Providers

Manage Heterogeneous Customer Environments

Manage multiple customer environments with different requirements from a central platform. Multi-tenancy and audit logs included.
MSP Multi-Tenancy Customers

Platform Teams

Provide Self-Service Infrastructure

Provide your developers with ready-made blocks that deploy complex infrastructure with simple commands - without deep knowledge of the implementation.
Platform Self-Service Developer Experience

DevOps Engineers

Automate and Standardize Operations

Standardize your operations with reusable blocks and workflows. GitOps best practices are built directly into Polycrate.
DevOps Automation GitOps

Compliance Teams

Audit-Ready Infrastructure

Complete audit trails for all changes to your infrastructure. Polycrate is certified for use under high compliance requirements.
Compliance Audit Certified

Enterprise Customers

Battle-Tested in Critical Environments

Polycrate is deployed in production environments with high availability and security requirements - from financial services to government agencies.
Enterprise Critical Infrastructure High Availability

Benefits of Polycrate

Polycrate brings numerous benefits for teams that operate complex IT infrastructure and need maintainable, deterministic automation.

Deterministic Collaboration

Reproducible Results Across Teams

Every team member executes the same actions with the same results - independent of the local environment. No more “Works on my machine” problems.
Team Reproducible Consistent

Documentation as Code

Self-Documenting Workspaces

Your infrastructure is described in YAML files and automatically documented. Workspaces, blocks and actions are self-explanatory and versioned.
YAML Versioned Self-Documenting

Uniform Automation Layer

One Workflow for Everything

From Kubernetes to Docker to bare-metal servers: Polycrate provides a unified layer for provisioning and maintaining IT infrastructure and software.
Kubernetes Docker Bare-Metal

Out-of-the-box Integrations

Ready to Use Immediately

Ansible, kubectl, Helm, cloud CLIs and more are included directly in the Polycrate container. Start developing immediately - without setup effort.
Ansible Helm Cloud-CLIs

Endlessly Extensible

Modular Block Architecture

Create your own blocks for your specific requirements or use ready-made blocks from the PolyHub. Share blocks via OCI registries.
Blocks Modular Extensible

OCI-based Artifact Management

Container-Native Versioning

Blocks are stored as OCI artifacts in container registries. Use Harbor, Docker Hub or any other OCI-compatible registry.
OCI Harbor Versioning

Audit Logs

Complete Traceability

Every action execution is logged with timestamps, exit codes and metadata. Perfect for compliance and debugging.
Audit Compliance Logging

Secrets Management

Secure Management of Sensitive Data

Integrated secrets management with age encryption. Secrets are stored encrypted in the Git repository and can be shared team-wide.
Secrets Encryption age

Cloud Migration

Break Free from Hyperscaler Lock-in

Polycrate is ideal for migrating software workloads between cloud providers. Kubernetes-native architecture guarantees portability.
Migration Multi-Cloud Data Act

You build it. We run it.

Excellent performance and maximum uptime - that’s what we wake up for. And sometimes even in the middle of the night.

270 Million End Users

per month

More than 9 million end users use software we deploy every day, on the internet or on-premise.
User Endanwender Software

99.99% Uptime

annual average

Our managed services are unavailable for less than 1 hour per year on average.
Uptime Verfügbarkeit SLA

MTTD < 5 Minutes

on average

Our granular alerting system detects errors and outages faster than you can say ‘Service Level Agreement’.
MTTD Monitoring Detection

34 Billion Logs

per month

More than 10000 logs per second are collected by our collectors and stored GDPR-compliant.
Logs Observability Ingestion

71 Million Active Timeseries

per month

2.7 million datapoints are measured per second by our monitoring systems.
Monitoring Metrics Datapoints

50 TB Backups

per month

More than 2000 backups are stored daily on our encrypted long-term storage.
Backup Storage Sicherheit

Integrations

Polycrate integrates seamlessly with the most important tools and platforms of the cloud-native ecosystem - for a continuous, automated workflow.

Ansible

Configuration Management

First-class support for Ansible playbooks as action implementation. Automatic inventory integration and SSH key management included.
Configuration Playbooks Idempotent

Kubernetes

Container Orchestration

Native integration with Kubernetes clusters. Kubeconfig management, Helm charts and multi-cluster support for enterprise deployments.
kubectl Helm Multi-Cluster

Docker

Container Management

Full integration with Docker and Docker Compose for container-based deployments on any host.
Docker Compose Container

Git

Version Control

Native Git integration based on go-git. Built-in commands for status, commit, push, pull and sync - without external Git installation.
Git GitOps Versioning

OCI Registries

Artifact Management

Blocks are stored as OCI artifacts in container registries. Compatible with Harbor, Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry and more.
Harbor OCI Registry

AI Assistants

MCP Server Integration

Integrated MCP server for AI assistants like Claude and Cursor. Block discovery and configuration assistance through context-aware recommendations.
MCP AI Cursor Claude

Software Delivery Lifecycle

Polycrate covers the entire software delivery lifecycle - from development to monitoring. Each phase is supported by specialized features.

Develop

Build Blocks

Create modular blocks with actions that describe your infrastructure. YAML-based, versioned and team-ready.
Blocks YAML Modular

Build

CI/CD Integration

Execute Polycrate actions in CI/CD pipelines. Compatible with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins and more.
CI/CD GitLab GitHub Actions

Test

Idempotent Actions

Ansible-based actions guarantee idempotent, testable deployments. Run the same action as many times as needed.
Idempotent Testable Reproducible

Deploy

Orchestrate Workflows

Combine multiple actions into workflows for complex, multi-stage deployments with rollback strategies.
Workflows Rollback Orchestration

Operate

Day-2 Operations

Maintenance actions for updates, backups and troubleshooting. All through the same CLI that performed the deployment.
Maintenance Updates Backups

Monitor

Centralized Monitoring

The Polycrate API provides real-time monitoring, alerting and audit logs for all your workspaces and deployments.
Monitoring Alerting Audit

Compliance & Regulatory Requirements

The ayedo Software Delivery Platform meets the requirements of current EU regulations. From GDPR to NIS-2 to DORA – our platform is designed for regulated industries and critical infrastructures.

GDPR-Compliant Data Processing

Privacy by Design & Default.

EU data residency (Germany), Customer-Managed Keys (BYOK/BYOHSM), encryption at rest/in transit. ISO 27001-certified data protection management. Support for data subject rights, DPA, incident response. More about GDPR.

NIS-2-Compliant Operations

Resilience for critical infrastructures.

24/7 monitoring, incident response, BCP/DR processes, supply chain transparency (SBOM). EU-based operations, MFA/PAM, vulnerability management, patch processes. Ideal for essential/important entities. More about NIS-2.

DORA-Ready for Financial Institutions

ICT resilience tailored.

ICT risk management framework, documented exit strategies, third-party risk management, TLPT readiness. Structured incident reporting chains, continuous resilience testing, ISO 27001-certified. More about DORA.

CRA-Compliant Software Supply Chain

Security by Design across the entire lifecycle.

SBOM generation, CVE scanning, vulnerability disclosure processes, update management. Signed container images, GitOps-based audit trails, transparent supply chain. More about CRA.

Cloud Sovereignty Framework

Digital sovereignty made measurable.

EU-based operations, open standards, exit capability without lock-in. Designed for SEAL-4 (Full Digital Sovereignty) across all eight sovereignty objectives. No dependencies on non-EU control. More about the Framework.

Data Act-Compliant Portability

Switching without barriers.

Open APIs (OpenAPI), standardized formats (YAML/JSON/OCI), complete exit runbooks, Infrastructure-as-Code portability. Multi-cloud capable, no egress fees, functional equivalence. More about Data Act.

Integrated Compliance Roadmap

Holistic approach.

How ayedo systematically addresses GDPR, NIS-2, DORA, CRA, Data Act, Cloud Sovereignty Framework, ISO 27001/9001. Certifications, processes, technical measures, audit readiness. To overview.

Getting Started

Get started with Polycrate now and automate your infrastructure in minutes.

  1. Install CLI

Download via Polycrate Hub

Download the CLI for your operating system from the Polycrate Hub or use the Docker-based installer.

The CLI runs on Linux, macOS and Windows (WSL).

Linux macOS Windows
Download CLI

  1. Create Workspace

Create Your First Workspace

Create a directory, add a workspace.poly file and define your first blocks with actions.
Workspace Blocks Actions
Getting Started

  1. Run Actions

Start Automation

Execute actions with a simple command:

polycrate run my-block install
CLI Run Actions
CLI Reference