# Spacelift Reviews **Vendor:** Spacelift **Category:** [Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About Spacelift Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that manages your entire infrastructure lifecycle—provisioning, configuration, and governance. It integrates with all your infrastructure tooling (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible) to provide a single integrated workflow so you can deliver secure, cost-effective, and resilient infrastructure , fast. By automating deployment and configuration, providing developer self-service, Golden Paths with guardrails, and an OPA policy engine, Spacelift empowers businesses to accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control and governance over their infrastructure. Spacelift offers unrivaled support, no-nonsense pricing, and a range of deployment models to fit your specific needs. ## Spacelift Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Spacelift's **ease of learning** impressive, enabling efficient management of stacks with simple setup and integration. (3 reviews) - Users find Spacelift to be **easy to use** , facilitating seamless management of infrastructure with efficient integrations. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy initial setup** of Spacelift, simplifying the management of complex infrastructure configurations. (3 reviews) - Users value the **robust integration capabilities** of Spacelift, greatly enhancing management efficiency and workflow simplicity. (2 reviews) - Users value the **efficiency in managing infrastructure stacks** with Spacelift, enhancing workflow and operational consistency. (2 reviews) - Users value the **automation features** of Spacelift, enhancing efficiency in managing infrastructure and streamlining application rollouts. (1 reviews) - Automation Efficiency (1 reviews) - Build Automation (1 reviews) - Code Management (1 reviews) - Configuration Management (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complex interface** challenging, limiting their ability to view information holistically and navigate effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find **configuration complexity** in Spacelift challenging, making it a hassle to set up necessary items. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complex setup** process in Spacelift challenging, especially when needing to manage configuration contexts. (1 reviews) - Users find the **confusing interface** challenging, lacking a unified view and exhibiting various usability issues. (1 reviews) - Users find **customization challenging** in Spacelift, as the configuration process can be complex and burdensome. (1 reviews) - Users find the **configuration process quite difficult** , often leading to challenges when adding new items in Spacelift. (1 reviews) - Navigation Issues (1 reviews) - Poor Integration (1 reviews) - Poor UI (1 reviews) - UX Improvement (1 reviews) ## Spacelift Reviews ### 1. Solid Terraform governance with great policy and PR integration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2026 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** The policy-as-code engine is the standout feature for us — being able to define OPA-based policies to control who can approve and apply Terraform changes has greatly improved our governance over AWS infrastructure. Stack management is also solid, making it easy to organize and track deployments across multiple environments. The pull request preview feature is a big workflow win: engineers can see a Terraform plan directly in their PR before merging, which catches issues early and speeds up code review. **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** The documentation is the weakest area. For example, we struggled to find clear guidance on security best practices for setting up Spacelift across an org, specifically how to scope IAM permissions per stack so each stack has only the access it needs. This is a common requirement but the docs don't walk you through it in a practical way. **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before Spacelift, managing Terraform deployments to AWS was largely manual and error-prone, with limited visibility into who ran what and when. Spacelift gave us a centralized place to manage all our stacks, enforce approval workflows through policies, and ensure changes go through a proper plan-and-apply cycle. The PR preview integration in particular reduced incidents caused by untested changes reaching production. Overall it has improved our deployment confidence and made infrastructure changes more auditable. ### 2. Scalable IaC Management with Seamless GitHub Integration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2026 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** Spacelift goes beyond the basics of managing the lifecycle of OpenTofu and other IaC tools by adding useful constructs like spaces, contexts, and integrations that make managing a large number of configurations a scalable process. The web user interface is basic, but gives easy access to all the key information One thing that really impressed me is the quality of the integration with GitHub repositories. Spacelift not only runs OpenTofu plans automatically for pushes and pull requests, but does so without any manual configurations or boilerplate workflows in the repositories. It also handles monorepos really well, only running plans only for stacks that are actually affected by changed files. And, it's possible to promote proposed changes all from within GitHub. The spacectl CLI is similarly well integrated, making it easy to integrate into local development workflows. **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** The web interface is rather basic. It's focussed on one entity at a time (e.g., spaces, stacks, contexts), making it hard to get holistic views of things. For example, when I'm on the page for a space, I'd ideally like some sort of overview of the stacks and contexts in the space and drill down into them. Instead, I have to go to the stacks page and filter down to the space, the contexts page and filter down to the space, etc. There's also some rough edges and odd behaviours like action panels covering up lists, and weird list item selection behaviours. **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spacelift replaces individually run GitHub Actions workflows for Terraform and OpenTofu configs with a really nice framework for managing large infrastructure deployments. It provides good controls, organization, and visibility for infrastructure stacks, so that I can focus on managing my infrastructure and not the tool itself. ### 3. Streamlined Infrastructure Management with Strong Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit S. **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** I love how Spacelift allows our small team to efficiently manage a large number of stacks, enabling us to configure and manage our infrastructure in a clean and sensible way. The simplicity of configuring Terraform through Spacelift is particularly impressive, as it streamlines our process and allows us to manage infrastructure dependencies smoothly. I appreciate the systematic and repeatable way it facilitates the rollout of applications and infrastructure, which is crucial for maintaining our operations. Additionally, the easy initial setup and the ability to write our own modules quickly were extremely beneficial. The support from Spacelift has also been exemplary, with their team providing substantial help during the setup process through calls and hands-on assistance, ensuring we could address any problems effectively. Being a long-time user, the consistency of their support over time has made our experience with Spacelift very positive. **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** I find it sometimes quite difficult to configure the things we need in Spacelift. The configuration process can be challenging, especially when adding new configuration items, as the context needs to exist with those items in it. This requirement is understandable but it can be a bit of a hassle and causes an overhead. **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find Spacelift enables our small team to efficiently manage numerous stacks, configuring and maintaining infrastructure simply and sensibly. It enhances our ability to handle infrastructure and applications in a systematic, repeatable manner, ultimately supporting our infrastructural scalability. ### 4. A great tool for Terraform continuous delivery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex J. | Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** Lots of flexibility - integrate with your workflows without needing to change them. Great collaboration features like pull request previews, access levels, change approvals, and more. **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** The flexibility comes with complexity. It can be easy to build something too company or workflow-specific when you should instead take the opportunity to rationalise and simplify our processes. **Recommendations to others considering Spacelift:** Compare Spacelift to Hashicorp's official platform. Compare the feature sets and pricing. Make up your own mind :-) **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** Run Terraform at scale for a distributed team of devops & SRE staff. ### 5. Effortless Terraform Delegation and State Management—Perfect for Beginners **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mateusz J. | Principal Technical Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2025 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** Delegation, I can delegate all Terraform actions - Infrastructure as a code to a dedicated place, important element state management, extremely easy to start the journey with Terraform (for example, to the people from Azure Bicep) **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** Today I don't see any problems. Documentation and samples are clear **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** State management ### 6. The Definition of Flexibility **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John L. | Software Engineer, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** Spacelift makes infrastructure management manageable, with it's ability to use terraform or other infrastructure as code tools, spacelift feels like a must have for any organization. **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** I would like to see a little more controllability over the data we are storing. Though Terraform allows us to control the building and deployment of our infastructure, I always worry about data that is exposed to the service provider. **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spacelift is helping with ensuring our infrastructure deployment is dependable and consistent with little to no hiccups, we are able to ensure our infastructure is consistently running. ### 7. Wonderful tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yuriy V. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** Spacelift has done a positive transformation to the way we manage our infrastructure. Now we have a tool with a lot of built-in guards so that developers are able to provision their infrastructure themselves, with minimal assistance from infrastructure engineers. This includes amazing integration with GitHub, tests, policies and everything is done as code. **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** I wish Spacelift could grow faster in terms of features, since we rely on the tool more and more. **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** We want to manage our infrastructure as code, this becomes particularly difficult, since we have many dev teams. Overall, there is three strategies to provision the infrastructure available to us: a dedicated team for this, everyone can do anything and a centralized tool. In the organization of this size, a dedicated team quickly becomes a bottleneck and too broad permissions lead to failures in production. We had to to come up with a centralized tool, and the way Spacelift implements this idea really fits our needs. ### 8. Amazing Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derek R. | Sr. Software Engineer (Infrastructure), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** I like the speedy interactions and attention to detail from their engineers. We can work directly with their engineers over slack which has made incorporating their terraform workflow a breeze. In an edge case, they alerted us to it, causing a slowdown, and fixed our issue within a week! **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** I find the UI a bit annoying at times. For example, I find myself having to hit the spacelift logo to go home just to hit a menu item that should be available globally. **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using spacelift to handle Terraform workflows and its private registry. The main benefit so far has been easy setup with new stacks, and we are starting to use the module registry to help make the rest of the org move quicker. ### 9. spacelift has been a game changer for our infra **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jason f. | VP, chief architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** The best thing about spacelift is the team, they made it easy to integrate and are always there to answer questions quickly. The sales process was also smooth and easy ! **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** Some of the UI controls are a bit clunky, but it's under very active development, and I see frequent updates so not worried about this. The team is always open for feedback ! **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spacelift has helped us set up a flexible and productive Infrastructure as Code environment. It makes the basics like setting up and iterating on plans simpler and quicker, which has allowed us to focus on larger engineering concerns. And when things in our infrastructure go wrong, that’s when Spacelift really shines! ### 10. Awesome CI/CD tool for Terraform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Spacelift?** a lot of options to customize ability to set up different policies terraform spacelift provider, so there is no need to configure something manually **What do you dislike about Spacelift?** the complexity of configuring policies, it would be great if they could provide more examples **What problems is Spacelift solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing Terraform scripts (CI/CD) ## Spacelift Discussions - [What is Spacelift used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-spacelift-used-for) - [View Spacelift pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/spacelift/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+08%3A18%3A39+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a46bfce4-b0aa-4e7e-904e-48635ce1358f&secure%5Btoken%5D=19c91876bbc979619ab3eae24ac1d1fd312dc4781d389b3f4321e8385927fe81&format=llm_user) ## Spacelift Integrations - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) ## Spacelift Features **Administration ** - Administration Console - Task Management - Dashboards and Visualizations - Access Control **Automation** - Test Automation - Intelligent Automation - Release Automation - Automated Provisioning **IT Management** - Workflow Management - Infrastructure Management - IT Discovery ## Top Spacelift Alternatives - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,276 reviews) - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (369 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (547 reviews)