Terraform and Helm alternative based on CUE: Mantis

My team was responsible for deployment of over 30 microservices across multiple clouds, directly in our enterprise on-prem customers’ environments. We thought we had it under control. We were SO wrong!.

The reality hit hard: Hour-long deployments stretched into months. Security reviews became endless loops. Integration issues multiplied exponentially. Key stakeholders vanished when we needed them most.

But that production incident with our important fintech client? That was different. As I watched my team burn out during those three days of firefighting, due to a misconfigured database, I realized something had to change.

Here’s the hard truth: The cloud was supposed to simplify things. Kubernetes was meant to make microservice management easier. Instead, we got more complexity, more toil, and more sleepless nights.

I’ve seen this pattern destroy teams across companies. I’ve watched brilliant engineers, engineering leaders and CISOs crumble under the weight of infrastructure chaos. — That’s why I built Mantis.

It’s not just another tool — it’s a complete reimagining of infrastructure configuration. One unified AI-powered engine replacing both Terraform and Helm. Modular configurations that actually work. Built-in validations that prevent disasters before they happen.

https://github.com/pranil-augur/mantis