In this edition of Mission Infrastructure, we lead with a guide on the safest approach to accelerating your deployments using AI in your DevOps processes. We follow that with popular recent articles covering everything from self-service provisioning and DevOps in the public sector to Terraform module versioning, Terraform audits, and the benefits of using Spacelift to manage your multicloud infrastructure governance.
The big news in upcoming events is IaCConf 2026, the only virtual conference dedicated to all things infrastructure as code. We also bring you recent videos, plus all our latest product updates.
AI-driven DevOps can certainly accelerate your deployments, but how do you minimize the associated risks? Start with low-risk use cases, maintain human reviews, and use strong approval and security mechanisms, particularly for production. A platform like Spacelift blends AI-driven infrastructure workflows with governance and policy controls to make the process safer. In this article, Flavius Dinu explores AI DevOps and explains:
Allowing developers to deploy new infrastructure components without involving operations teams streamlines development workflows and enhances throughput and DevEx by enabling engineers to work more autonomously. In this article, James Walker explains self-service provisioning, its benefits for DevOps productivity and infrastructure management, and how to start implementing it in your own teams.
The public sector has begun adopting DevOps practices to align with public demand for digital services, and the tooling ecosystem is also catching up. Ioannis Moustakis’s article discusses DevOps tooling for the public sector, highlighting Spacelift as the first IaC orchestration platform to achieve FedRAMP authorization.
Terraform module versioning improves the safety, predictability, and manageability of infrastructure upgrades at scale. Mattias Fjellström’s article explains Terraform module versioning is, how it works, and best practices for managing your modules with proper versioning.
Auditing your Terraform code enables you to systematically review your IaC code and determine whether your infrastructure complies with your organization’s compliance and governance standards. Flavius Dinu’s article walks through a Terraform audit, what Terraform’s state file reveals, how to run a Terraform audit step by step, the most popular Terraform audit tools, and the best practices around Terraform audits.
IaC tools like Terraform or OpenTofu can make it easier to work with multiple cloud providers, but an infrastructure orchestration platform is required to apply security mechanisms that detect misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, block certain changes from occurring, implement drift detection and remediation, and ensure that all these operations are auditable. In this article, Flavius Dinu explores how Spacelift can help resolve these issues by providing a single orchestration layer for multicloud infrastructure governance.
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Drift represents the gap between your configuration and the actual state of your infrastructure, and it leads to failed deployments, security issues, and laborious debugging sessions. In this video, we walk through how to bring existing resources under Terraform's control using Terraform import. We cover what Terraform import does, four common scenarios that require it, and a hands-on demo of both approaches: the classic CLI command and the declarative import block introduced in Terraform 1.5.
Without a standardized way of working, running workloads across multiple clouds becomes a permanent debugging exercise rather than a strategic advantage. In this video, we explore how to build a multicloud setup with Terraform at the center. We cover what multicloud involves, how it differs from hybrid cloud, the four main reasons teams choose multicloud, and a practical framework covering Terraform module standardization, state splitting, pipeline automation, policy as code, observability, FinOps, and drift detection.
Spacelift has launched an AI Infrastructure Assistant called Infra Assistant and a natural language deployment model called Intent. IaC and GitOps remain the appropriate foundation for managing infrastructure in production. However, the IaC and GitOps pipeline gets blocked as development velocity increases, particularly for experiments, sandboxes, and POCs. Spacelift Intelligence gives you an AI-native operations layer that delivers the speed of AI without sacrificing the governance, visibility, and control you need.
We're making an improvement to how plan policies are evaluated. When a plan is evaluated against your plan policies for Terraform, OpenTofu, and Terragrunt stacks, we no longer include resources with no changes (no-ops). Most customers will not notice the change, but we've proactively identified accounts that could be affected and will be reaching out directly.
