What is Spacelift?

Spacelift is a sophisticated, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) platform for infrastructure-as-code, currently supporting Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, and Kubernetes. It's designed and implemented by long-time DevOps practitioners based on previous experience with large-scale installations - dozens of teams, hundreds of engineers, and tens of thousands of cloud resources.

Profile

Spacelift offers the blend of DevOps or CI versatility with the methodological rigor of a specialized, security-conscious CD platform for infrastructure delivery. The tool provides expressive building blocks with full support for modern Infrastructure as Code frameworks, cloud environments, version control systems, and various authentication methods.

The tool can be used by engineering teams in large corporations acquiring smaller companies that bring different infrastructures and smaller but diverse organizations aiming to empower application developers.

Spacelift works with any IaC setup and is capable of working as a self-hosted agent on your infrastructure. This solution is built on top of open-source components like Docker and Open Policy Agent, allowing full customization while maintaining sensible defaults.

Focus

Spacelift’s focus is to keep everyone shipping fast with precise guardrails that you control.

With Role-Based security policies, custom approval flows for runs, and arbitrary git flow support, you can work exactly the way you want to, from straightforward pipelines to highly specialized complex event-driven workflows.

Spacelift allows you to visualize and navigate your provisioned and deployed infrastructure resources and more, with a UI that helps you keep an eye on everything you’re responsible for. Spacelift enables self-service infrastructure that provides everything teams need for continuous delivery of their infrastructure with automated workflows that help everyone understand the impact of proposed infrastructure changes.

Background

Founded in 2020 by the creator of geopoiesis, Spacelift provides a collaboration and automation layer for infrastructure as a code. Backed by Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and the founders of Supercell and Yelp.

Spacelift main features

Achieve Terraform at scale

Spacelift simplifies the rapid expansion of Terraform use while incorporating the benefits of Terragrunt and Atlantis workflow to achieve organizational success.

CI/CD for infrastructure

Spacelift enables developer freedom by supporting multiple IaC providers, version control systems, and public cloud endpoints with precise guardrails for universal control.

Drift detection

The concept of drift represents the difference between the desired and the actual state of the infrastructure managed by your tool of choice - Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, etc. There are two primary sources of drift in any environment.