ControlMonkey is an end-to-end IaC automation platform built around Terraform and OpenTofu. It connects to cloud accounts (AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware) via cloud APIs and to Git repositories via VCS integrations, maintaining a live inventory of all cloud resources and comparing it against the declared state in your repositories.
Resources that exist outside Terraform — created manually or via scripts — are detected as unmanaged. An AI import engine converts unmanaged resources into Terraform code and state files automatically. Once resources are under management, ControlMonkey runs an infrastructure CI/CD loop: plan on PR open, policy evaluation as a quality gate, apply on approval.
The billing unit is the stack, equivalent to a Terraform state file — this differs from HCP Terraform's per-resource-under-management model. In November 2025, ControlMonkey extended the platform to VMware, bringing on-premises workloads under the same governance pipeline as public cloud. Founded by the Spot.io team (acquired by NetApp for $450M); raised $7M seed in January 2025.
