Spacelift

Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform that automates provisioning and governance for Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Pulumi, and Kubernetes.

Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform designed to manage and automate infrastructure pipelines across multiple tools, including Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Kubernetes. It moves beyond traditional CI/CD by providing a platform that understands state, resource dependencies, and stack management. Platform teams use it to enforce policies via OPA, enable self-service workflows for developers through blueprints, and detect configuration drift in real-time. The platform includes an AI assistant to design, deploy, and govern infrastructure resources. Users can deploy the system as a fully managed SaaS, self-hosted in any cloud, or in on-premises and air-gapped environments.

Spacelift at a glance

Best for: Software engineer
Runs on: Web, CLI, self-hosted
Pricing: Free plan; Starter Plus; Business; Enterprise; Enterprise + plans available.
Released: October 2020
Category: AI coding tool
Website: spacelift.io

Key features

Policy enforcement using Open Policy Agent
Drift detection and automated remediation
Support for Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Kubernetes
Self-service infrastructure provisioning via Blueprints
Multi-tenant architecture with Spaces and RBAC
Private and public worker deployment models
AI-assisted infrastructure management

Use it for

Managing infrastructure pipelines across multiple IaC tools
Implementing security and compliance guardrails as code
Enabling self-service infrastructure for development teams
Detecting and remediating infrastructure drift

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