You build the platform every other team builds on. The win is golden paths and real self-service — multi-tenant Kubernetes, databases and environments developers spin up themselves — with no ticket queue and no closed vendor. Ænix delivers that as a turnkey internal developer platform, or builds yours on open foundations.
Pairs with: Ænix Private Cloud Platform (developer self-service included) for a ready internal developer platform, or Internal Developer Platform build to design one to your org. Open-source core: Cozystack, Apache 2.0.
Where you are right now
- Dev teams wait on tickets for environments, databases and clusters.
- You’re weighing build vs buy for an IDP and wary of Backstage-only glue work.
- Each team wants isolation; you need multi-tenancy without a cluster per team.
- Leadership wants developer velocity numbers, not another platform that needs a platform.
What you’re actually trying to do
Turn infrastructure into a product: self-service provisioning of VMs, managed Kubernetes, managed databases and object storage, with tenancy, quotas and guardrails — so developers ship without filing tickets, and you don’t hand-roll the control plane from scratch.
Two ways Ænix helps you
1. Run a turnkey IDP. The developer self-service in Ænix Private Cloud Platform ships the multi-tenant control plane, self-service portal, service catalog and golden-path provisioning on the open-source Cozystack core. Your platform team curates; developers self-serve.
2. Build your own, with our team. Cozystack is the framework; Ænix is your outsourced platform-engineering team. We design tenancy, golden paths and the catalog around your org, integrate your CI/CD and identity, and hand over a platform your team owns. See platform engineering and IDP build.
Quick facts
- What it is: a multi-tenant internal developer platform (self-service VMs, K8s, DBs, storage) on a Kubernetes-native core.
- Who it’s for: Heads / Directors of Platform Engineering, Platform / DevEx leads.
- Licence: Apache 2.0 — no per-seat platform tax.
- Status: built on Cozystack, a CNCF project (Sandbox 2025-02-28; Incubating application in due diligence).
- Common pitfall: buying a portal (Backstage) with no real multi-tenant backend, so self-service still bottlenecks on infra tickets.
Why platform teams pick Ænix
- A real backend, not just a portal. Multi-tenant compute, storage and databases under the self-service layer — the part Backstage doesn’t give you.
- Authors as partners. Ænix created Cozystack and co-maintains it; you get the people who built the tenancy model.
- Own it. Open source and your infrastructure — no renewal that holds your developer experience hostage.
FAQ
How is this different from Backstage? Backstage is a developer portal; it needs a platform behind it. Cozystack is that platform — multi-tenant compute, K8s, databases and storage. You can put Backstage on top; the backend is the hard part we solve.
Can teams get real isolation? Yes — nested tenants with quotas and RBAC, so each team self-serves inside guardrails without a cluster sprawl.
Build or buy — which should we do? The discovery call scopes it. Teams wanting speed take the developer self-service in Private Cloud Platform; teams wanting a bespoke fit take the build-with engagement where we’re your platform bench.
Does it run our existing workloads? VMs (KubeVirt) and containers on one platform, plus managed databases and S3-compatible storage — so legacy and cloud-native coexist.
What about cost? Apache 2.0 core, no per-developer licensing. You pay for support and/or the build. We model it on the call.
Start with a 30-minute discovery call
Free, no prep. We look at how your teams provision today and tell you whether Private Cloud Platform’s developer self-service or a build-with engagement gets you to self-service faster.
Ænix created Cozystack, a CNCF Sandbox project (Incubation application in due diligence) under Apache 2.0, and co-maintains it with maintainers from other companies. On it, Ænix builds three platforms that combine rather than exclude each other: Ænix Public Cloud Platform, Ænix Private Cloud Platform and Ænix AI Platform.