ActivLayer is an autonomous infrastructure operations platform that connects to your Kubernetes clusters, VMware environments, Terraform state, and cloud accounts and resolves failures, drift, and compliance violations without waiting for a human to react.
When an incident occurs, ActivLayer runs a deterministic 9-stage pipeline: it detects the event, classifies severity, generates a remediation plan, checks every proposed action against your OPA policy rules, optionally pauses for human approval, executes the fix, verifies the outcome, and rolls back if something goes wrong. Every step is logged in plain English with full reasoning so your team can audit exactly what happened and why.
Unlike monitoring tools that alert you to problems, ActivLayer acts on them. Unlike runbook automation that requires someone to trigger a playbook,
ActivLayer initiates the response autonomously and only surfaces a request for human approval when risk classification or your policies require it.
Key capabilities include:
- Incident auto-remediation across Kubernetes, VMware vSphere, Proxmox, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, and GCP
- Policy enforcement via Open Policy Agent - every action is checked before it runs
- Human-in-the-Loop gates - high-risk operations pause and wait for explicit approval
- Compliance automation for CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and NIST benchmarks
- Cloud cost governance with autonomous rightsizing and waste remediation
- Disaster recovery automation - scheduled DR drills and failover execution
- Air-gapped deployment - self-hosted AI model with zero external network calls at inference time, for FedRAMP and NHS IG environments
ActivLayer installs via Helm in under 10 minutes. The Community edition is free with no time limit: 1 environment, up to 3 agents, no credit card required.