Spacelift

Spacelift provides an end-to-end workflow for infrastructure as code, standardising and controlling how infrastructure is provisioned and configured while keeping provisioning easy for developers. Its recent work includes deploying modules straight from a module registry, and it publishes an annual infrastructure automation report alongside material on unifying infrastructure and application promotion.

Existing as a layer above infrastructure as code tells you what those tools leave undone. Terraform describes infrastructure and does not decide who may apply a change, in what order, with which approvals, or how a failure is handled, and every organisation past a certain size builds that scaffolding itself or buys it.

Making self-service safe for developers is the outcome being sold. A platform team either becomes the queue through which every infrastructure change passes, or gives developers a workflow with the controls built in, and the second scales while the first does not.

Supporting OpenTofu alongside Terraform is a meaningful hedge for buyers. The licence change that produced that fork left organisations wanting a path that does not depend on one vendor's terms, and a workflow layer covering both preserves that option.