System Initiative has released an AI-native infrastructure automation platform. The company says the platform means engineering teams can work directly with AI agents that not only understand every detail of their infrastructure, but also propose and safely execute real, validated changes. 

System Initiative says the new platform pairs high‑fidelity digital twins of live infrastructure with AI agents that know how to work inside it. This means engineers can tell the platform what outcome they want (such as fixing a security gap or deploying a new service), and the AI agents will work out what needs to be done, simulate it safely, show them exactly what will happen, and, with their approval, carry out the work.

Writing on the System Initiative blog, Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-Founder of the company, gave the example of a system manager saying:

"We need to update the load balancers to be more aggressive with their health checks".

continuing:

"Today, you’ll type that sentence, and System Initiative will simply do it for you. It will discover your load balancers if it doesn’t already know about them. It will map their configuration for you. It will analyze them. Propose a reasonable update to make them more aggressive. Then prompt you to review its work and make the necessary changes."

The System Initiative platform is based on a 1:1 modeled digital twin of an organization's infrastructure, with no abstractions and no guesswork. The platform maps every relationship between every resource, and this can be used for real-time visualization and configuration.

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When changes are required, they are proposed within an integrated change set, which is always up to date and incorporates your organization's security and compliance policy. It can also be reviewed before being applied to production. This means the AI agents can be trusted not to do things you didn't intend. The System Initiative team says the platform will safely iterate on proposed changes, and will present engineering teams with a clear, up-to-date plan of what will happen for their approval before any changes are made. 

Paul Nashawaty, AppDev Practice Lead at theCUBE Research said:

"According to our findings, 65% of enterprises cite complexity as one of the top three challenges in managing their cloud infrastructure, while 72% highlight a lack of real-time cost visibility as critical yet lacking, a combination that effectively hampers automation adoption. System Initiative’s human-in-the-loop model directly confronts these obstacles."

System Initiative is also building an API that can be used from 3rd party applications such as CI/CD systems and custom internal developer platforms to manage your infrastructure using System Initiative. The platform already includes a public API that can be used to create components and a TypeScript function API that has an asset-builder module. The company says the platform includes seamless integration into existing workflows such as GitHub and Jira. The platform also includes integrations with Terraform, Pulumi, and GitOps. 

The company is also working on management components that are a combination of templates, import and workflows smashed together. They say these are essentially components that can create and manage other components; think "applications" that take properties, and then expand into the required infrastructure; or that have "deploy actions" that pull from artifact repositories and then run actions across the infrastructure.

System Initiative's new platform is available now.  

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