Environment Control Plane

Eliminate environment friction.
Ship faster, safely.

MicroStax is the environment control plane for platform teams — on-demand isolated Kubernetes environments, governed baselines, overlay routing, and built-in AI agent safety. One control plane for every environment your team runs.

terminal
$microstax env create --branch feature/payments-v2
Namespace: stx-payments-v2-b3a9 ready
Services: api, payments, db, redis ✓ all healthy
$microstax env share stx-payments-v2-b3a9
Share link: https://stx.ai/share/pay-v2-review
TTL: 48h · Isolated · Governed · No cluster access needed

Integrates with your existing stack

GitHub OAuth
GitHub Actions
CLI
REST API
Managed k3s Runtime

Works with the tools your team already uses

GitHubVS CodeDockerKubernetesGoogle CloudAWSAzureSlackGitHub Actions

Built for platform and product teams that ship fast without breaking things

< 60s

Average environment spin-up

8+ hrs

Saved per developer per week

100%

Team isolation — no cross-tenant bleed

0

Manual staging sync incidents

MicroStax is the missing layer between environment infrastructure and developers. It turns environment operations into self-service without sacrificing governance.

Platform Engineer, Enterprise SaaS

We stopped arguing about "works on my machine." Every branch gets its own environment, seeded, isolated, and torn down automatically.

Engineering Manager, FinTech

Problem / Solution

Stop fighting your environments

Common infrastructure pain points, solved.

Hours wasted configuring dev environments

Solution

Provision reproducible environments from a single Blueprint and stop rebuilding local setup by hand.

"Works on my machine" bugs slip into production

Solution

Use consistent environment definitions, realistic data workflows, and mirrored validation before promotion.

Shared staging is a bottleneck and money pit

Solution

Move to baselines and sparse overlays with idle shutdown and TTL controls.

How it works

From Blueprint to governed runtime in four steps

Step 01

Sign up & connect your repo

Sign up, connect your Git repo, and define your first Blueprint. No cluster to set up — MicroStax provides the managed Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP and AWS.

Step 02

Define Blueprint

Write a microstax.yaml or import your existing Docker Compose file. Define services, volumes, and env vars.

Step 03

Create isolated or sparse environments

Provision a full environment, promote a baseline, or create an overlay that runs only changed services.

Step 04

Observe, compare, and govern

Use logs, topology, traces, sharing, replay, diffs, and governance workflows across the environment lifecycle.

Features

Everything you need to ship faster

From environment creation to governed runtime validation, MicroStax covers the full lifecycle.

Namespace Isolation + NetworkPolicies

Every environment runs in its own namespace with strict network boundaries. No cross-talk between tenants.

Log Streaming

Real-time log streaming from every pod. Tail, filter, and search across services from the UI or CLI.

Shareable URLs

Generate share links for environment access and review workflows, with platform-controlled access behavior.

Auto-Shutdown & TTL

Set time-to-live policies so idle environments clean themselves up. No more forgotten clusters.

Template Gallery

Start from pre-built templates for common stacks. Customize and save your own blueprints.

Compose Import

Bring your docker-compose.yml and MicroStax converts it to a native blueprint automatically.

Advanced

Seeds, Snapshots, and Mocking

Bootstrap environments with init jobs, seed packages, sanitized snapshots, and service mocks when full dependencies are unavailable.

Advanced

Snapshots

Capture and restore realistic data state for debugging, QA, demos, and repeatable validation.

Advanced

Baselines & Overlays

Promote shared baselines, then create sparse overlays that deploy only changed services and inherit the rest.

Advanced

Diagnosis, Replay, and Diffs

Inspect failures, replay environment state, and compare runtime behavior across derived environments and mirrored traffic.

Advanced

Governed Policies & Drift Detection

Define compliance posture, geo-fencing rules, and drift thresholds centrally. MicroStax enforces them across every environment — automatically.

AI Agent Safety

The missing safety layer for AI agents running on your infrastructure

LLMs and autonomous agents need isolated, governed, reproducible environments — not shared clusters where a bad run can affect production. MicroStax provides a cleaner environment model for that workflow.

Isolated sandbox per agent run

Each AI agent or LLM workflow gets its own isolated environment instead of sharing mutable state with other runs.

Governance & policy enforcement

Define what agents can deploy, which services they can reach, and which secrets they can access — enforced at the control plane level.

Reproducible environments from blueprints

Blueprint-defined environments make runs easier to repeat, inspect, and compare across teams and workflows.

MCP Server for environment tasks

Use the MicroStax MCP server for environment tasks like create, inspect, diagnose, and share from compatible AI tooling.

Integrations

Connects to your entire stack

First-class integrations for CI/CD, observability, and developer tools.

GitHub OAuth

Use GitHub identity for dashboard access where that workflow is enabled.

GitHub Actions

Trigger environment creation on PR open, sync on push, destroy on merge.

REST API

Full CRUD API for environments, blueprints, and clusters. OpenAPI spec included.

CLI

microstax CLI for local development, scripting, and CI pipelines.

Prometheus Metrics

Export namespace-level metrics. Plug into your existing Grafana dashboards.

Webhooks

Get notified on env lifecycle events. Integrate with Slack, PagerDuty, or custom systems.

VS Code Extension

Author Blueprints, validate them, inspect logs, and explore environment state from the editor.

MCP Server

Model Context Protocol server for task-oriented environment workflows from compatible AI tooling.

Planned

GitLab SSO

GitLab OAuth and SSO for enterprise identity management.

Planned

SAML / OIDC SSO

Enterprise SSO with your existing identity provider.

Architecture

Simple by design, powerful under the hood

A control path that starts with a Blueprint and ends with a governable runtime environment.

Clients

Dashboard
CLI
VS Code
MCP

Control Plane

Fastify API
Auth + RBAC
Environment Controller

Data Layer

Postgres
Audit State
Snapshot Storage

Runtime

Namespaces
Services + Ingress
Baselines + Overlays
Patent Insights

The architecture is novel because the control plane is graph-native

MicroStax is built on a 17-patent invention family covering differential provisioning, overlay composition, predictive materialization, sparse scheduling, routing, identity, replay, conflict detection, executable runtime behavior, shadow validation, sovereignty enforcement, quantum-safe audit, and mesh analytics.

Patent family

17

Distinct inventions across one control-plane pipeline.

Architecture layers

4

Composition, routing, replay, and runtime validation.

Reading paths

3

Patent guide, system design docs, and technical blog series.

Patent Docs

17-patent family guide

A practical breakdown of every patent: the problem it solves, the artifact it introduces, and the platform behavior it enables.

Explore

System Design

System design explainer

How graph stores, diff engines, sparse planners, identity resolution, executable runtime, replay, and audit fit together.

Explore

Read Series

Patent insights series

A blog series that groups the patents into sparse realization, routing and identity, and replay plus validation architecture.

Explore

Why MicroStax

The right tool for the job

Kubernetes-native isolation

Real namespaces, not Docker-in-Docker hacks. NetworkPolicies enforced by default.

Sparse environment model

Promote stable baselines, then provision only changed services in overlays when full duplication is wasteful.

Full lifecycle automation

Create, inspect, diagnose, share, replay, and retire environments through the same control plane.

Cost controls built in

TTL, auto-shutdown, and metered billing mean you only pay for what you use.

FeatureMicroStaxComposeTilt / Skaffold / GardenSignadot / QoveryReview Apps
Namespace isolation
Sparse overlays
PR-based lifecycle
Shareable URLs
Compose import
Auto-shutdown / TTL
Snapshots & baselines
Replay, diagnosis, and diffs

Pricing

Simple, usage-based pricing

Pay only for the environment-hours you actually use. TTL and spending caps keep costs predictable and eliminate bill surprises.

🎉 All tiers free during Early Access — pricing activates at GA

Starter

$0forever

Perfect for solo devs and side projects. No credit card required.

Join waitlist

Included

  • 1 project
  • 3 concurrent environments
  • 100 env-hours / month
  • CLI + REST API
  • Community support

Metered

  • Hard cap at included hours

Cost controls

TTL: 2 hours max

Pro

$29/month

For individual developers who ship fast and need more headroom.

Join waitlist

Included

  • 3 projects
  • 10 concurrent environments
  • 500 env-hours / month
  • Snapshots & baselines
  • Share links
  • Email support

Metered

  • Extra env-hours: $0.05/hr
  • Extra storage: $0.10/GB

Cost controls

TTL: 24 hours max, spending alerts

Most popular

Team

$99/user/month

For teams that need governed environments, PR automation, and AI safety.

Join waitlist

Included

  • Unlimited projects
  • Unlimited environments
  • 2,000 env-hours / month
  • Branch-per-PR automation
  • Governance & drift detection
  • MCP Server + AI agent safety
  • All integrations
  • Priority support

Metered

  • Extra env-hours: $0.03/hr
  • Extra CPU: $0.02/vCPU-hr
  • Extra storage: $0.08/GB

Cost controls

Configurable TTL, spending caps, auto-shutdown policies

Enterprise

Custom

For regulated industries and orgs that need compliance, SSO, and SLAs.

Talk to us

Included

  • Everything in Team
  • Sovereignty controls & geo-fencing
  • SSO / SAML / OIDC
  • Full audit logs
  • GDPR & compliance posture
  • Dedicated support & SLA
  • Custom contracts

Metered

  • Volume discounts
  • Committed-use pricing

Cost controls

Organization-wide policies, budget guardrails

All plans run on MicroStax-managed Kubernetes infrastructure. No cluster to provision. Enterprise compliance options →

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Ready to operationalize developer environments?

Start with the documentation, then request access if you want help rolling MicroStax into your engineering or platform workflow.

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