Is Your CI/CD Pipeline Actually Working?
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Fix IaC Drift at the Source
Sedai writes every optimization back to Git automatically, so your infrastructure code stays in sync with your live environment.
Your IaC Workflow Wasn't Designed for Autonomous Systems
Git-as-source-of-truth works well when humans are the only ones making changes. Autonomous systems change that.
Live changes create invisible debt.
Adjustments made directly to a running cluster exist outside your declared state — and get reverted on the next reconciliation.
Manual promotion doesn't scale.
Translating live changes back into IaC by hand is slow, error-prone, and rarely happens consistently.
Policy lives outside your review process.
Guardrails configured outside code have no version history, no peer review, and no audit trail.
Optimization That Lives in Your Repository
Sedai integrates directly with your IaC and GitOps workflows, so every change it makes is reviewable, auditable, and permanent.
Drift Prevention
After every optimization, Sedai opens a pull request with the exact code changes needed — Terraform variables, Helm values, Kustomize patches. Your declared state stays current automatically.
Deployment Resilience
Sedai's CI/CD overwrite protection detects when a new deployment would revert an optimization and re-applies the correct configuration. Your gains don't disappear at the next push.
Policy in Version Control
Define the guardrails for autonomous optimization in Git. Sedai reads and enforces those boundaries from your repository — reviewed, versioned, and managed like any other policy file.
No Manual Translation
Sedai generates the exact code changes required. Engineers review a PR, not a recommendation. Sedai has already written the optimization; it just needs an approval.
Guardrails as Code
Set the Rules Once. Enforce Them Everywhere.
Sedai lets you define CPU, memory, replica, & cost boundaries directly in Git as policy files, with no portal configuration required.
Guardrails are versioned alongside your application code, and they're subject to the same review & approval process.
Loopback Updates
Every Optimization Becomes a Pull Request
After Sedai applies a change to your live environment, it automatically opens a PR with the corresponding IaC changes. This can take the form of Terraform .tfvars, Helm values.yaml, or Kustomize patches.
The PRs include a summary of what changed, the "why" behind it, and the projected impacted, reviewable by any engineer without Sedai access.
CI/CD Overwrite Protection
Optimizations That Survive Every Deployment
Sedai monitors for deployment events that would overwrite a previous optimization. When Sedai detects a conflict, it re-applies the correct configuration after the deployment completes — without manual intervention.
For GitOps environments running ArgoCD or Flux, the Live Sync Controller intercepts reconciliation conflicts, before they cause drift.
IaC Mapping Agent
Know Exactly What Code Controls What Infrastructure
Sedai's IaC Mapping Agent automatically traces live cluster resources back to their originating IaC source: Terraform module, Helm release, or Kustomize overlap
Sedai maintains mapping continuously as your stack evolves, without manual annotation or tagging.
“What I found with Sedai is that it's very focused on safety. I don't really have to worry about it. It just delivers the optimization, in a very gradual and safe way.”
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Robert Berger
Chief Architect // Informed
Works With Your Stack
Terraform
Helm
Kustomize
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
ArgoCD
Flux
The Sedai Difference
Without Sedai
- Optimizations applied to live infra are overwritten by the next deployment
- Engineers manually translate recommendations into Terraform or Helm code
- Configuration drift accumulates silently between code and live environment
- Changes bypass code review, leaving no audit trail
- GitOps tools like ArgoCD revert Sedai's changes on reconciliation
- Sedai writes changes back to IaC as PRs, so optimizations survive every deploy
- Sedai generates the exact code changes required, no manual translation
- Code and live environment stay in sync automatically after every optimization
- Every optimization follows the same PR-based approval process as any other change
- Live Sync Controller intercepts and resolves conflicts before they cause drift
Resources
How KnowBe4 Cut Infrastructure Costs with Sedai
Learn how Sedai has saved KnowBe4 more than $1.2 million in cloud costs, while eliminating thousands of hours of engineering toil.
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Optimize Your Cloud with Sedai
Learn how Sedai safely lowers your cloud costs — with zero risk to performance.
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