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Company Research Report: Spacelift



Company Overview



Name: Spacelift



Mission:
Spacelift aims to provide a collaboration and automation layer for infrastructure as code, focusing on openness, flexibility, and customization for power users, particularly those who are sophisticated and security-conscious.

Founding and Key People:


  • Founded by: The creator of geopoiesis.

  • Backed by: Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, and Inovo Venture Partners.


Headquarters:


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Employees:


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Revenue:


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Known for:


Spacelift is known for its robust infrastructure-as-code (IaC) management, collaboration tools, and CI/CD platform designed to streamline and secure the deployment of cloud infrastructure.

Products and Solutions



Products Offered



Infrastructure at Scale


  • Description: Enables safe and efficient scaling of infrastructure with automated end-to-end workflows.

  • Key Features:

  • End-to-end integration with multiple IaC tools.

  • Real-time visibility into resources.

  • Drift detection with remediation.

  • Secure and rapid provisioning and configuration workflows.


Developer Velocity


  • Description: Helps developers to self-provision infrastructure, reducing bottlenecks and time to market.

  • Key Features:

  • Self-service infrastructure with Golden Paths.

  • Automated workflows and guardrails.

  • Dynamic credentials for cloud providers.

  • Notification policies for real-time infrastructure insights.


Cross-Team Collaboration


  • Description: Automates secure, collaborative workflows to enhance efficiency and compliance.

  • Key Features:

  • Standardized, governed collaboration workflows.

  • Role-based access control.

  • Shared visibility into infrastructure changes and states.

  • Automated provisioning and deprovisioning.


Infrastructure Governance


  • Description: Ensures secure, compliant infrastructure operations at scale.

  • Key Features:

  • Policy creation and enforcement.

  • Drift detection and remediation.

  • Multi-tool workflows for comprehensive governance.

  • Golden Paths and predefined resource definitions.


Use Cases Supported



  • Infrastructure Governance: Standardize and control infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

  • Collaboration: Implement and automate secure, collaborative workflows.

  • Developer Velocity: Simplify infrastructure provisioning for developers with automated workflows.

  • Infrastructure at Scale: Manage large-scale infrastructure efficiently with end-to-end workflows.


Industries Served


  • Financial Services: Banks, payment providers, POS systems, fintechs, insurers, BNPL providers, exchanges, investment managers, crypto and web3 companies.

  • Technology: Marketplaces, SaaS companies, game developers, martechs, edtechs, software development companies, IT service providers, life sciences & biotech.


Recent Developments



New Products Launched


  • Stack Dependencies: Enables the chaining of IaC stacks via directed acyclic graphs, allowing automated triggering of stack runs based on dependencies.

  • Drift Detection and Remediation: Automatically detects infrastructure drift and offers optional remediation to maintain the desired state.

  • Custom Inputs: Provides the capability to integrate third-party tools into Spacelift workflows, enhancing security and flexibility.


New Features Added:


  • Policy Workbench: Enhances the development and testing of policies directly inside the run summaries.

  • Private Workers and VCS Agent Pools: Allows the use of private worker pools for running jobs and access to private VCS instances, enhancing security and compliance management.

  • Context-Based Workflows: Incorporates environments and variables into workflows for easier management and scaling.

  • Multi-IaC Integration: Supports Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Pulumi, offering flexibility in managing varied infrastructure setups.


Partnerships


  • AWS Marketplace: Spacelift is available on AWS Marketplace, allowing seamless procurement and deployment within AWS environments.

  • OpenTofu Initiative: Spacelift is a founding partner of the OpenTofu initiative, contributing to the development and support of OpenTofu as an open-source alternative to Terraform.


Customer Testimonials


  • Joe Hutchinson, Director of Engineering - Developer Platform at Checkout.com: Spacelift enabled Checkout.com to scale infrastructure from a handful to over 500 deployments daily.

  • Alex Jurkiewicz, Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Highlights improved trust and collaboration across globally distributed teams due to Spacelift's defined workflows and guardrails.

  • Erik Osterman, CEO of DevOps Accelerator: Appreciates Spacelift's advanced policy management and integration capabilities, particularly for managing complex IaC environments.


This comprehensive report provides a detailed overview of Spacelift's offerings, recent developments, and customer experiences, emphasizing its capabilities in infrastructure management and automation.