Welcome to the new edition of Mission Infrastructure, the monthly newsletter from Spacelift! Our blog is very active, so here's a digest of some of our most insightful recent posts to help you keep up. Plus, as we wind up a busy 2024, we've a roundup of our final event of the year, exciting product updates, and highlights of Spacelift in the news.
If you don’t actively manage drift in your infrastructure, it can escalate and cause serious issues. But how do you stop infrastructure drift if you don’t know where it’s coming from? Read Flavius Dinu's blog post to discover the chief causes of drift and best practices for avoiding and remediating it in your infrastructure.
Ansible is a simple, powerful, agentless tool for automating tasks like configuration management, application deployment, and system orchestration across multiple systems. In this cheat sheet, Faisal Hashem provides a quick reference to essential Ansible commands and concepts.
The HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) includes many built-in functions for building dynamic Terraform configurations and simplifying common data manipulation tasks. In this blog post, Mattias Fjellström provides an overview of Terraform functions and explores the element function in detail.
Kubernetes (K8s) is the leading container orchestrator for operating containerized applications in production environments. There’s no single Kubernetes distribution, so you can choose from several other options. In this blog post, James Walker explores the differences between K8s and K3s — a popular lightweight option for Kubernetes distribution.
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"By combining provisioning, configuration, and governance in a single platform and extending its reach across cloud and on-premises environments, Spacelift is not just solving today's problems; it's anticipating the challenges of tomorrow's hybrid, multi-cloud world." In this article, Steven Vaughan-Nichols explores Spacelift's emergence as a pioneering force in the ever-evolving landscape of cloud infrastructure management.
"As 2025 approaches, a few tech trends point to a shift in the way enterprises will approach infrastructure management and orchestration." In this article, Spacelift CEO Pawel Hytry outlines three key trends that will define the world of infrastructure orchestration in 2025 —OpenTofu's open-source momentum, the embrace of hybrid architecture, and a shift away from full-stack generalism.
"Tools like Spacelift and Terraform simplify hybrid infrastructure management, reducing friction between environments.." In this article, Spacelift CEO Pawel Hytry argues that unified platforms like Spacelift directly address the core goals of a hybrid infrastructure model by enabling developer autonomy and secure resource management.
Spacelift's latest Ansible functionality is live! These updates give you easy insights into everything that is happening with your hosts, including successful and failed runs, and logs about what is going on. Spacelift now includes:
Better playbook automation: Manage the execution of Ansible playbooks from one central location.
Inventory observability: View all Ansible-managed hosts and related playbooks, with clear visual indicators showing the success or failure of recent runs.
We are excited to announce we've added a new support chat that can be easily accessed from the Help & Feedback section of our app. Read more in the documentation.
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