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Spacelift pros and cons

Vendor: Spacelift
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

Spacelift enables significant manpower reductions by allowing fewer engineers to handle tasks previously managed by several, enhancing resource efficiency.
By eliminating the need for coordination runs, Spacelift achieves a 60 to 70% reduction in infrastructure-related incidents and reduces deployment coordination time, allowing teams to focus more on feature work.
Spacelift facilitates collaboration within the Terraform repo without conflicts, offering strong support for managing cloud infrastructure efficiently.
Spacelift automates repetitive infrastructure tasks, resulting in a 90% reduction in time while doubling cloud configuration speed, showcasing its effectiveness in streamlining workflows.
Spacelift employs governance and security policies based on GitOps principles to manage Terraform basics and detect drift, saving time and reducing the need for direct employee intervention, enhancing organizational efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

CONS

Many other automation tools like Jenkins exist that perform efficiently compared to Spacelift.
There is significant room for improvement in the initial setup and onboarding experience, particularly in understanding contexts.
Running multiple stacks could enhance Spacelift's functionality.
The self-hosted version lacks features compared to the SaaS version, such as cloud integrations for Azure and GCP.
Synchronization issues arise when using older and newer versions with Kubernetes and HashiCorp.
 

Spacelift Pros review quotes

G Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
May 20, 2026
If you're looking to automate your Infrastructure as Code, then Spacelift is the best choice.
Rahul Aher - PeerSpot reviewer
cloud engineer at softwareone
Jun 22, 2026
The metrics show that fewer employees are needed, money is saved based on past experiences with different cloud management or Infrastructure as Code management tools, and efficiency has improved significantly in terms of Infrastructure as Code deployment.
reviewer2846268 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
May 26, 2026
Spacelift has positively impacted my organization in significant ways in terms of building infrastructure as code.
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SJ
Lead Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Jun 2, 2026
After using Spacelift, I noticed a 90% reduction in time saved for repetitive infrastructure tasks, as the cloud configuration speed has doubled.
reviewer2847357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
May 30, 2026
Spacelift impacted our organization positively in several areas, with time-saving by eliminating the need for coordination runs, a 60 to 70% reduction in infrastructure-related incidents, and a significant drop in weekly deployment coordination from six to eight hours to roughly two hours, freeing up meaningful time for actual feature work and improvements.
reviewer2847912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr DevOps at a retailer with 11-50 employees
Jun 1, 2026
Spacelift has positively impacted my organization because it works well; it allows everybody to collaborate in the same Terraform repo without stepping on each other's toes.
Carlton Mascarenhas - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 5, 2026
SpaceLift has positively impacted my organization by reducing a lot of confusion with the integration of Terraform modules, because a lot of our tooling involved direct and indirect Terraform module creations; now it is more streamlined for each and every resource that we control.
reviewer2857095 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 15, 2026
Spacelift has positively impacted our organization by speeding up our deployments and easing a lot of pain with infrastructure deployments, especially because a lot of teams are working simultaneously on the same code base using the same configs.
HG
Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Jun 14, 2026
Spacelift has positively impacted our organization because we do not have to detect drift or manage Terraform basics ourselves; Spacelift handles this for us with strong governance and security policies based on GitOps principles, which saves considerable time.
MV
DevOps Engineer at ICE
Oct 23, 2024
A valuable feature of Spacelift is that you can attach labels, and it is a modernized tool for infrastructure deployments. It is pull request-based, and you can see all the Terraform plan and apply logs on the pull request itself, which is not available across any other CI/CD tools.
 

Spacelift Cons review quotes

G Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
May 20, 2026
Pricing could be a little lower to make it a very robust tool, and it can improve areas in scalability and integrate some open-source tools.
Rahul Aher - PeerSpot reviewer
cloud engineer at softwareone
Jun 22, 2026
Spacelift is good overall, but there are little explanatory aspects, such as navigating particular stacks, that are somewhat difficult to understand for newcomers, especially regarding the process, stack setup, and variable setup for deployments.
reviewer2846268 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
May 26, 2026
Perhaps the learning curve could be a bit steep if someone is completely new to Spacelift and only has experience with plain Terraform.
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SJ
Lead Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Jun 2, 2026
I specifically wish to see improvements in Spacelift's user interface, making it more useful and easier for the team to understand.
reviewer2847357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
May 30, 2026
There are a few areas where there is room for improvement, particularly the initial setup and onboarding experience, which has a learning curve around understanding the concept of contexts.
reviewer2847912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr DevOps at a retailer with 11-50 employees
Jun 1, 2026
I think an improvement for Spacelift would be a feature to run multiple stacks.
Carlton Mascarenhas - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 5, 2026
If I had to think of one area where Spacelift could improve, it would be the graph where we orchestrate, as the graph looks very complicated and complex, so perhaps it could be simplified.
reviewer2857095 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 15, 2026
The learning curve for new users getting started with Spacelift is very steep.
HG
Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Jun 14, 2026
Spacelift could be improved by implementing some of the many AI-based tools available that support a variety of tools like Pulumi, CloudFormation, OpenTofu, and Terraform.
MV
DevOps Engineer at ICE
Oct 23, 2024
The self-hosted version does not have a lot of features compared to the SaaS version, such as cloud integrations for Azure and GCP.