Orchestration & desired state
Run playbooks against groups or fleets, ensure idempotent outcomes, schedule recurring jobs, and roll back safely when needed.
Status: In development
CoreControl
Infrastructure automation and monitoring — a focused, modern alternative to Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform, and CheckMK.
Overview
CoreControl targets day‑2 operations: orchestrating changes, keeping systems in desired state, and surfacing health signals — without ceremony.
Inventory & grouping
Organize hosts by environment, role, tags, or dynamic queries. Target precisely with zero-noise selectors.
Health & visibility
Verify service health before/after changes, collect key metrics and logs, and surface drift quickly.
Key capabilities (planned)
Agentless first
SSH and WinRM by default, with an optional lightweight agent for event streaming and offline queues.
Module ecosystem
Clean, typed modules for packages, services, files, users, cloud APIs — designed for composability and reuse.
Secrets & policy
Native secrets integration (including NPA policy guardrails) for who can do what, where, and when.
Change safety
Dry‑runs, canaries, staged rollouts, automatic verification and quick rollback hooks.
Observability
Built‑in checks and exporters to feed popular monitoring stacks, with concise status in the UI.
Milestone Roadmap & Pilot Program
Track the current engineering progress of CoreControl and secure early access as a design & pilot partner.
Phase 1 · Completed
Core Architecture & Execution Model
Specification of the idempotent module engine, SSH/WinRM transport layer, and NPA policy integration.
Phase 2 · In Active Development
Agentless Runner & Core Modules
Implementation of core modules (packages, systemd services, files, users), inventory tagging, and dry-run diffs.
Phase 3 · Next Milestone
Health Checks, Web UI & Early-Access Beta
Built-in service health probes, live job logs in the web dashboard, and closed beta with pilot customers.
Phase 4 · Planned
General Availability & NethServer 8 Module
Optional event agent for offline queues, automated rollback hooks, and turnkey container/NS8 deployment.