If you’re melting, it may be down to more than just the summer heat: Trying to get your infrastructure to run without constant supervision is a perennial struggle.
Fortunately, in this edition of Mission Infrastructure, we bring you “The Best Infrastructure Platform Stays Out of Your Way,” a webinar on August 11th in which Rogo Platform Engineering Lead Lawrence Aiello shares how Spacelift and OpenTofu deliver an IaC platform that “just works.”
You will also find our most popular recent articles, as well as our latest videos, news of interesting events we’re attending, and product updates.
The Best Infrastructure Platform Stays Out of Your Way 🎙️
You want your infrastructure platform to run in the background with minimal maintenance, but how do you reach that level? Get insights from Lawrence Aiello, Platform Engineering Lead at Rogo, as he shares why they chose Spacelift and OpenTofu as the foundation for the next stage of their infrastructure journey. Learn about:
The evaluation process Rogo followed to choose an IaC platform
What infrastructure management looks like when "it just works"
How a reliable IaC platform establishes a framework for AI-driven infrastructure workflows
The Best Infrastructure Platform Stays Out of Your Way
How to Migrate from Terraform Cloud (HCP Terraform) to Spacelift
For those who wish to move from Terraform Cloud (HCP Terraform), Spacelift has devised the Spacelift Migration Kit (spacemk) to export workspaces, generate equivalent Terraform/OpenTofu config for Spacelift, and migrate state. Flavius Dinu’s article walks through how this automation makes it easier to migrate to Spacelift by mapping the existing configuration and state to Spacelift resources.
IaC and DevOps tools automate tedious software delivery tasks so that developers can focus on innovation rather than manual infrastructure and deployment preparation. However, introducing new tools often sparks developer resistance. In this article, James Walker explains why this happens and shares ten best practices for winning buy-in from your team.
OpenTofu at Scale: 4 Strategies & Scaling Best Practices
Managing OpenTofu at scale involves strategic workflow planning, solid automation, and meticulous attention to collaboration patterns. Flavius Dinu’s article explores four proven approaches to managing OpenTofu workflows at enterprise scale, outlining their strengths, limitations, and the particular issues each approach addresses.
IaC Modernization and How to Future-Proof Your Infrastructure
As AI-assisted coding accelerates the generation of infrastructure code, and agents begin to make independent infrastructure decisions, IaC tooling can quickly become outdated. In this article, Ioannis Moustakis explores what IaC modernization means in practice, suggests a practical roadmap, and discusses how to future-proof your IaC setup without breaking production.
Securing Infrastructure Automation in Federal Environments with Policy as Code
August 11, 2026
2PM EDT / 11AM PDT
Virtual
Federal platform teams facing fiscal year-end all grapple with the challenge of how to act fast to support developers while maintaining security and compliance.
On Tuesday, August 11,Spacelift Solution Engineer Kalyan Oduri will be a featured speaker at a live online session covering:
Why infrastructure as code (IaC) without governance is an audit liability and how policy as code addresses it
How federal agencies are tackling tool sprawl and enforcing compliance automatically
Spacelift's FedRAMP Class C certified deployment and its implications for your Authorization to Operate (ATO)
A live demo of drift detection, policy enforcement and audit-ready infrastructure
Spacelift partner Carahsoft is participating as a major exhibitor at TechNet Augusta 2026. This is your opportunity to learn from individuals across the cyberspace ecosystem and global security professionals about cybersecurity information and technology. You can see Spacelift in action at the Carahsoft booth on Wednesday, August 19.
Drop by Booth #601 to find out more.
SF Rooftop Tech Mixer & Demo Night
August 20, 2026
San Francisco, United States
Get ready for the ultimate summer tech gathering! Join us for an evening of spectacular rooftop views, refreshing drinks, and high-impact live demos featuring some of the most innovative companies in the ecosystem.
Open Policy Agent is the standard policy engine across Terraform, Kubernetes, and other software systems. Rego is its language, and developing expertise in it gives you real control over your infrastructure. In this video, we walk through the core Rego concepts, the syntax that causes the most confusion, how to use LLMs to accelerate policy-writing, and how Spacelift's policy library and workbench provide a practical alternative to having to write OPA policies from scratch.
Sentinel vs OPA: Policy as Code in Terraform Enterprise vs Spacelift
Policy as code is one of the most important differences to consider in any assessment of Terraform Enterprise or Spacelift. You need to ask whether your policy system can cover the way your platform actually operates. In this video, we evaluate Sentinel in Terraform Enterprise and OPA in Spacelift, examining where each policy system sits in the delivery workflow, what it can and cannot cover, and why the operating model matters more than the syntax when you are governing infrastructure at scale.
How to Use Terraform and Ansible Together (with Spacelift)
Getting Terraform and Ansible to work together without introducing fragility is difficult. Teams tend to blur boundaries, stuff config scripts into Terraform, or stitch the handoff together with custom pipelines. In this video, we walk through the clean pattern: Terraform builds the infrastructure and exposes outputs; Ansible uses those outputs as inventory and configures the machines; and Spacelift orchestrates the handoff between them via stack dependencies.
Deploy from your Module Registry with Spacelift Intelligence
Spacelift Intelligence now allows you to deploy a module by name. Intent resolves it against your Spacelift module registry and applies it as a single managed resource, under your existing policies, state, and audit trail. You don’t need a module block or PR: The guardrails already built into your registry and your Intent policies continue to apply.
