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Overview

Realm9 is a comprehensive enterprise environment management platform that helps teams manage, book, monitor, and automate their IT environments. Built for scale, security, and compliance.

Key Features

Environment Management

  • Unified Dashboard: Real-time overview of all environments, bookings, and system activity
  • Environment Booking: Reserve environments with configurable approval workflows
  • Environment Requests: Formal request process for teams that need new environments provisioned
  • Smart Search: Find environments, bookings, and resources instantly across your organization

Terraform Automation

  • Cloud Connections: Connect AWS, Azure, GCP, and On-Premises (Proxmox/VMware vCenter) securely via IAM roles, service principals, and site-to-site VPN
  • Projects & Workspaces: Organise Terraform configurations with full workspace management
  • Automated Runs: Plan and apply triggered by Git commits or manual approval
  • Drift Detection: Continuously monitor for infrastructure configuration drift
  • Terraform Policies: Enforce organisation-wide policy checks on every run
  • Starter Projects: Provision pre-built infrastructure from a catalog of 16 ready-to-use templates across AWS, Azure, Proxmox, and VMware
  • Infrastructure Templates: Manage approved VM/OS image templates with hardening standards and cloud-init support

FinOps & Cost Management

  • Cost Explorer: Analyse and break down cloud spend across providers and environments
  • Anomaly Detection: Automatically surface unexpected cost spikes
  • Usage Tracking: Monitor resource utilisation and allocation over time
  • Cost Dashboards: Build custom dashboards to visualise spend trends and budget tracking

Approval Workflows

  • Multi-Level Approvals: Configure approval chains for bookings and Terraform runs
  • Workflow Templates: Define reusable approval processes per environment type
  • Notifications: Automated alerts for approvers and requesters at each stage

Compliance & Audit

  • Policy Scanning: Run compliance checks against your infrastructure
  • Comprehensive Audit Logs: 13+ audit categories covering authentication, SSO, users, sessions, bookings, Terraform, workflows, and more
  • CIS Compliance Scanning: Automatically scan VMs provisioned via Terraform against CIS benchmarks with enforcement and HTML/ARF/JSON reports

Enterprise Security

  • SSO / SAML 2.0: Integrate with Google OAuth or Azure AD SAML 2.0 for single sign-on
  • SCIM Provisioning: Automated user provisioning and deprovisioning
  • MFA: Multi-factor authentication for all users
  • Session Security: Configurable session policies and timeouts
  • Secrets Management: Connect external vaults (AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao) and reference secrets in Terraform variables via vault:// URIs — secrets are never stored in Realm9

Integrations

  • ServiceNow: Sync your CMDB, auto-create service request tickets, and keep CI data up to date from Realm9

AI System Assistant

  • Role-Aware Chat: Built-in AI assistant with real-time access to your platform data
  • Tool-Based Actions: Query bookings, environments, Terraform projects, costs, and compliance directly in chat
  • Multi-Session: Persistent conversation history across sessions
  • Configurable LLM: Bring your own OpenAI API key and choose your preferred model

Self-Hosted Architecture

  • Kubernetes-Native: Deploy on your own Kubernetes cluster
  • No Vendor Lock-in: Full control over your data and infrastructure
  • Enterprise Support: Optional support packages available
  • BYOK: Bring your own encryption keys and cloud credentials

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Getting Help

Next Steps

  1. Install Realm9 on your Kubernetes cluster
  2. Create your first environment
  3. Connect your cloud accounts
  4. Configure approval workflows

Built for DevOps and platform teams who value control, security, and compliance.