Spacelift

What Spacelift is

Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform for organizations automating infrastructure workflows. It coordinates plans and applies, runs policy checks, detects drift, and records actions for governance and security. It works with Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS CDK, Serverless, and Terragrunt. Source control connections include Bitbucket Cloud and Datacenter, GitHub and GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, and Azure DevOps; cloud and collaboration integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

Governance controls include OPA-based policies for plans, approvals, notifications, and security, plus Spaces, Contexts, and role-based access control. Spacelift supports HCL, AWS, Azure, and GCP, policy as code, drift detection, importing existing resources, and both state-management approaches. It can run as managed SaaS or be deployed on a cloud provider, on premises, in an air-gapped environment, or as FedRAMP-authorized SaaS. The platform is available through web, API, and self-hosted deployments. Spacelift says customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit and that it holds SOC 2 Type II certification. The Free plan includes 2 users and 1 public worker. Starter + costs $20,000 a year, billed annually; Business and Enterprise plans are also annual subscriptions.

Who it suits

Spacelift suits organizations that want infrastructure lifecycle automation with developer self-service, reusable golden paths, guardrails, and governance. It can fit teams using supported infrastructure tools and source control providers, with deployment choices ranging from managed SaaS to self-hosting and air-gapped environments.

Limits

The Free plan includes 2 users and 1 public worker. Starter + costs $20,000 a year and includes 2 public workers and 1 or 2 private workers. Annual subscriptions cannot have features or workers removed.

Getting started

1. Visit https://spacelift.io/.
2. Choose managed SaaS or a supported self-hosted deployment approach.
3. Start with the Free plan or select an annual subscription.
4. Connect an infrastructure tool and a supported source control provider.
5. Configure policies, approvals, and access controls for your workflows.

Verdict

Choose Spacelift if your organization needs infrastructure automation with policy controls and a choice of deployment models. The Free plan is limited to 2 users and 1 public worker, while Starter + is an annual 20000.00 USD subscription.