Disclosed is a controller with an application-agnostic customer gateway comprising a dataplane management gateway, a dataplane management engine configured to take care of intent of platform-agnostic customer requests by onboarding on a nearest-to-customer platform and splitting requests into granular tasks to be carried out in a given region, a customer gateway for providing customer access to a customer network, a tenant management engine, a tenant provisioning engine, and a resource management engine. The dataplane management engine facilitates communication between a first admin agent and a dataplane provisioning and orchestration system, the tenant management engine facilitates communication between a second admin agent and the dataplane provisioning and orchestration system, the tenant provisioning engine facilitates communication between a third admin agent and the dataplane provisioning and orchestration system, and the resource management engine enables a customer agent to express intent regarding resource management.