Spacelift

Profile

The Spacelift orchestration platform combines infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and governance to increase platform team efficiency, accelerate developer velocity, and control costs. It connects to and orchestrates infrastructure as code, version control systems (VCSs), observability tools, control and governance solutions, and cloud providers to help deliver secure infrastructure faster.

With Spacelift Intelligence, teams can also understand, design, deploy, and govern infrastructure using natural language, giving developers a fast, governed path to infrastructure without adding to the platform team's backlog.

Spacelift works with tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi and Ansible and is capable of working as a self-hosted agent on your infrastructure.

Focus

Spacelift’s focus is to keep teams 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

Infrastructure provisioning

Stacks ensure faster, more secure provisioning by automatically combining source code, current infrastructure state, and configuration. The platform works with any major IaC tool or cloud platform and the VCS provider where your teams store infrastructure code.

Configuration automation

Expand your capabilities beyond Terraform and OpenTofu with a workflow that also manages Ansible playbooks.

Governance to balance speed and control

Reinforce security and compliance with controls over developer/DevOps activity. Provide Golden Paths and define custom policies for third-party security vulnerability scanning tools, while accelerating policy creation with best-practice templates. Detect drift automatically, and restore resources to their expected state with drift remediation.

Integrated workflow

Easily create workflows that combine IaC for provisioning, Ansible for configuration management, Kubernetes for container orchestration, and policies for governance. Blueprint templates allow you to open your infrastructure pipelines to developers without losing control.

Infra Assistant

Your AI infrastructure assistant that can understand, design, deploy, and govern infrastructure in plain language. Ask questions about your infrastructure state that dashboards and reports can't answer. Get expert design guidance before you deploy, create and apply policies with AI assistance and diagnose failures faster with AI-generated context across your stacks, dependencies, and history.

Intent

A no-code, AI-based deployment model for maximum speed. Developers request infrastructure through their LLM via Spacelift MCP. Intent translates those requests into governed infrastructure actions with the same policies, credentials, and visibility as IaC, without requiring Terraform expertise.