Facets has been recognized in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration Tools.

From Automation to Orchestration: Why the Real Transformation is Just Beginning

For most infrastructure teams today, automation is a given. But what’s missing isn't automation — it’s orchestration.

Most organizations have automated pieces of infrastructure. Yet these pieces live in silos:

• Provisioning is handled separately from deployment.

• Environment management varies team by team.

• Scripts and workflows break as complexity scales.

Gartner notes that, “infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must accelerate and optimize infrastructure delivery, mitigate risk and enable autonomy.” Organisations need to move faster with control, consistency, and compliance built in.

According to Gartner, “Orchestration remains underutilized by I&O teams due to perceived complexity, assumed loss of control and steep skills requirements.” But delaying the move only deepens tool sprawl, increases operational burden, and limits developer productivity

If automation was about execution, orchestration is about intent—enabling infrastructure to be delivered like a product, not a ticket.

We’re Building the AI-Powered Orchestrator for Modern Infrastructure

At Facets.cloud, we aren’t building just another infra tool.

We’re delivering an AI-powered orchestration control plane that stitches your existing stack into a governed, self-service platform.

Unified, Declarative Infrastructure

• Replace siloed scripts and pipelines with reusable blueprints.

• Manage infrastructure, deployment flows, and policies as versioned, declarative code.

• Eliminate tribal knowledge. Achieve consistency across clouds.

Self-Service with Guardrails

• Developers provision and manage environments on-demand.

• Ops retains control with built-in RBAC, Policy-as-Code (OPA), and drift detection.

• Faster delivery, without sacrificing compliance or security.

AI-Driven Orchestration

• AI assistants suggest optimized deployment patterns, detect drift, and generate blueprints.

• Infrastructure discovery becomes proactive — not reactive.

• Policy enforcement and environment management benefit from embedded GenAI capabilities, aligned with Gartner’s vision.

Why It Matters

The conversation has shifted from "how do we automate X?" to "how do we scale governance, speed, and reliability across everything we’ve already automated?"

That’s the orchestration gap—and it’s where platform-led thinking will win.

Customer Experiences

"Facets has brought in standardization across all aspects–  how you build, deploy, monitor, and how you access and interpret metrics – all of these are defined in a  consistent way. Everyone speaks the same language and could easily comprehend their own and dependent services.”

Piyush Goel

SVP of Engineering, Capillary Technologies

“Facets has significantly improved our deployment efficiency. By automating processes across multiple cloud providers, we've reduced deployment times by 40% . The process is highly intuitive, enabling us to automate deployments effortlessly while maintaining full control over the process.. This efficiency allows our teams to focus on developing innovative features, enhancing overall productivity”

Shubhendhu Shishir

Head of Engineering, Simplismart

Additional Resources

• Blog Posts: Our Journey to Making Facets.Cloud Enterprise Ready

• Blog Posts: InnerSourcing in Platform Engineering: An inclusive framework for Platform Adoption

• Case Studies: Case Studies

• Documentation: Documentation

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Gartner, Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Tools, 14 April 2025

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