There are a few areas for improvement. For instance, getting notification webhooks is not easy. In the free version, there's no straightforward way to be notified once a deployment is finished. Spacelift requires creating a notification policy, which involves using the open policies framework. However, this feature is not available on the free plan. Additionally, for each new project, I need to create a new IAM role, which is not optimal. It would be better if I could use a single role for all interactions with my AWS account.
Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer II at Checkout.com
Real User
Top 10
Oct 11, 2024
Spacelift currently lacks features that can help with complex type deployments and coordination for major deployments. It would be helpful if Spacelift had features that allowed us to orchestrate major deployments and stack dependencies more effectively.
Spacelift provides a sophisticated infrastructure management platform with key features such as Drift Detection and Terraform integration, simplifying complex deployments and enhancing user workflows through an intuitive interface.Spacelift excels in modernizing infrastructure management by integrating smoothly with Terraform, using a pull request-based approach for visibility into logs. It automates change detection using GitOps from GitHub and supports AWS connectivity with credential...
There are a few areas for improvement. For instance, getting notification webhooks is not easy. In the free version, there's no straightforward way to be notified once a deployment is finished. Spacelift requires creating a notification policy, which involves using the open policies framework. However, this feature is not available on the free plan. Additionally, for each new project, I need to create a new IAM role, which is not optimal. It would be better if I could use a single role for all interactions with my AWS account.
Spacelift currently lacks features that can help with complex type deployments and coordination for major deployments. It would be helpful if Spacelift had features that allowed us to orchestrate major deployments and stack dependencies more effectively.
If you are a small enterprise organization, below 500 people, I would not recommend it.