It’s time for the August edition of Mission Infrastructure, your monthly tour of the infrastructure-as-code world. We have some great recent articles on everything from using Ansible to manage Docker to managing IaC workflows with AI.
Plus, we’ve got news on product updates — and an event themed around a sandbox game you may have heard of…
Ansible and Docker help ensure infrastructure consistency and portability across environments. Ansible automates repetitive server tasks, and Docker ensures consistency by packaging apps and their dependencies into containers that run the same way everywhere. In this article, Faisal Hashem explains how to structure roles, apply conditionals, and follow best practices when using Ansible to manage Docker for repeatable, reliable infrastructure automation.
GitHub Actions is a CI/CD automation platform integrated into GitHub that enables you to automate tasks like building, testing, and deploying code directly from your GitHub repository using YAML-based workflow files. Mariusz Michalowski’s article reviews the best GitHub Actions alternatives, including GitLab CI/CD, Spacelift, CircleCI, Jenkins, and Azure Pipelines.
Observability involves measuring a system’s internal state based on the data it produces. A unified observability platform plus investment in AIOps could address the challenge of observability for the vast amounts of data that modern, cloud-native, distributed systems generate. In this article, Ioannis Moustakis discusses the major differences between observability and monitoring, the pillars of observability, OpenTelemetry, and implementing observability metrics.
The speed and efficiency infrastructure as code (IaC) bring can cause the issues misconfigurations create to scale rapidly. The solution is to treat infrastructure like application code and catch issues early, during development. Christophe Limpalair’s guide covers IaC security essentials, common risks, and ten practical best practices for secure, scalable cloud environments.
One of Terraform’s key strengths is its the way it enables multi-cloud provisioning — or the ability to build cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. In this article, Mattias Fjellström explains the differences between Terraform configurations targeting single and multiple providers, and he also discusses requirements and use cases for multi-cloud provisioning.
Scaling infrastructure as code (IaC) to meet growing demands often introduces complexity, limits visibility, and amplifies security and governance challenges. However, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into your IaC workflows can significantly reduce these challenges. Flavius Dinu’s article, explores how AI can supercharge your IaC workflows, how to implement it in your organization, and how to measure its effectiveness.
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We generated a lot of headlines with our recent announcement of $51 million in Series C funding! Here is just some of the coverage:
Data center infrastructure automation startup Spacelift gets ready for takeoff after raising $51M
InSilicon Angle, Mike Wheatley pointed out that Spacelift has "enjoyed strong momentum" and, with the new funding, "aims to accelerate product innovation and expand enterprise adoption of its platform."
Spacelift: $51 Million Series C Raised To Transform Enterprise Infrastructure Automation
Pulse 2.0writer Amit Chowdhry highlighted the fact that Spacelift "adoption has been growing across finance, software, healthcare, and government sectors, with companies like Redfin, Checkout, Moody’s, Duolingo, and Sailpoint using it."
Spacelift Secures $51M Series C to Drive AI‑Powered Infrastructure Automation at Scale
In TFIR, Monika Chauhan quoted Spacelift CEO and co-founder Pawel Hytry's comment that“This funding propels our vision forward, empowering organizations to effortlessly articulate and realize infrastructure goals through AI-powered automation."
Last month, we told you about a new feature in beta testing — an integration with Backstage that allows you to view the status of all your Spacelift stacks directly within your Backstage developer portal, trigger stack runs without leaving Backstage, and integrate infrastructure management into your developer portal experience.
We’re delighted to confirm that the Backstage integration is now live, giving your team:
Our new Integrations page consolidates and simpliies how you manage integrations with third-party tools. This makes the interface cleaner and provides a unified view of all the available integrations that work out of the box. You may still integrate with your tool of choice via lifecycle hooks, webhooks, API keys, or the notification policy, or you can bring your own images.
The current available integrations include:
Backstage
ServiceNow
Microsoft Teams
Datadog
Google Cloud
Webhooks
We’ll migrate our other integration pages to this new view over time. Let us know what you think!
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