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Spacelift

About Spacelift

Spacelift provides a platform for managing infrastructure as code and GitOps pipelines. The product standardizes how multiple infrastructure-as-code tools run. It models infrastructure environments using stacks and dependencies. It offers self-service infrastructure provisioning through templates. It can be deployed as SaaS, self-hosted, on-premises, or FedRAMP-authorized SaaS.

Products

IaC & GitOps: Automates multi-IaC workflows for production infrastructure.
Intent: Converts natural language descriptions into governed infrastructure actions.
Spacelift Templates: Provides self-service infrastructure provisioning instead of tickets and documentation.
Spacelift AI assistant: Allows teams to request and manage infrastructure via AI or an MCP server.

Used for

Running configuration tools such as Ansible as part of the infrastructure pipeline
Detecting and remediating infrastructure drift
Enforcing policies for plans, approvals, and notifications
Monitoring and adjusting infrastructure through a UI or AI assistant

Who it is for

Teams that have outgrown Terraform Enterprise.
Companies needing enterprise-level infrastructure orchestration and governance.

From Spacelift's own website, read 2026-10-23. How we build listings.

How to evaluate Infrastructure as Code

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Spacelift. It comes from our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Platforms buyer guide.

25%

Language & Authoring Model

Declarative DSL (HCL) vs. general-purpose language (TypeScript, Python, Go, C#); readability for reviewers vs. expressive power (loops, conditionals, abstractions); module/component reuse and registry maturity; testing and IDE support; learning curve for the people who will actually write infrastructure

20%

State Management & Drift

Where state is stored, remote-state locking to prevent concurrent-apply corruption, state encryption and secret handling, plan/preview fidelity, drift detection and continuous reconciliation, import of existing resources, and blast-radius controls on apply

20%

Policy-as-Code & Governance

OPA/Rego and Sentinel support, pre-apply guardrails (block non-compliant resources, mandatory tags, region/cost limits), RBAC and SSO/SAML/SCIM, audit logging, approval workflows, and integration with cost-estimation and security scanning in the pipeline

15%

Provider Ecosystem & Portability

Breadth and quality of providers/resource coverage, day-one support for new cloud services, multi-cloud and on-prem reach, third-party SaaS providers, and how locked-in the resulting code is to one vendor or one cloud

10%

Collaboration & Workflow (TACOS)

Run orchestration and queuing, VCS/PR-driven plans, stack dependencies, self-service environments with TTL/ephemeral teardown, drift remediation workflows, and whether you self-host in CI (Atlantis-style) or buy a managed platform

10%

Licensing & Project Health

License (open-source MPL/Apache vs. source-available BUSL vs. proprietary), governance and ownership after recent M&A, release cadence and roadmap, community/foundation backing (CNCF, Linux Foundation), and how easily you could exit or fork

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