Gantry vs Wayfinder

Gantry is an open-source internal developer platform for teams that need a service catalog and self-service workflows without dedicated platform engineering staff. Its catalog brings together services, APIs, teams, infrastructure components, and environments, including ownership and dependency relationships. Teams can create executable runbooks and workflows with schema-driven forms for tasks such as deployments and environment provisioning. Catalog entities can be written in YAML and applied with `gantry apply`, supporting version control, review, diffs, and rollback. Search uses SQLite FTS5, so Elasticsearch is not required. Official integrations include Kubernetes, GitHub, and ArgoCD; PagerDuty, Datadog, Grafana, and Flux are planned. Gantry ships as a Go binary with embedded SQLite and no external runtime dependencies. It can be installed from a binary, run through Docker or Docker Compose, or built from source. The documentation describes JWT authentication and requires installers to set an admin password. Gantry is self-hosted, licensed under Apache 2.0, and free. Its documentation says it is in active development and that APIs and schemas may change before its first stable release.

Wayfinder is an agentic software development lifecycle platform that runs in a customer's own cloud. Teams can deploy applications to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Kubernetes from a wayfinder.yaml file using wf up. Its agents can generate Cloud Resource Plans, create Stack Definitions from a repository, run AI deployments, and answer users through chat, the CLI, or an IDE. Plans are checked in the customer's cloud account against its policies before catalogue publication. Wayfinder describes per-workload OIDC federation for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud without static cloud keys at runtime, along with hierarchical role-based access, SSO, workspace-scoped tokens, and an exportable audit stream that includes agent actions. Secret storage uses envelope encryption through AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, or local encryption for self-hosted deployments. Integrations include cloud and Kubernetes services, Terraform, OpenTofu, Helm, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini. A free plan provides one production Kubernetes cluster and one seat. Starter costs £399/mo; Professional costs £2,499/mo. Enterprise pricing is custom and has an annual contract. Appvia is identified as the maker.