The August 2024 Spacelift Product Launch Is Here!

It may be summer, but we’re not taking a break! We’ve just launched some exciting features to help organizations:

• Manage their infrastructure at scale and control costs 
• Accelerate developer velocity 
• Get started with OpenTofu or migrate entirely
• Deliver secure, cost-effective, and resilient infrastructure…fast

This August, we’re giving leaders and platform teams:

1. The Dashboard — for greater visibility into their infrastructure and what’s happening in their Spacelift account
2. The Kubernetes Operator — to increase developer velocity and reduce time to market
3. A seamless transition to the latest version of OpenTofu. 

Let’s take a look at them in more detail:

The Dashboard is a new homepage for the Spacelift platform that gives admin users an overview of everything happening in their Spacelift account and the status of their infrastructure.

Leaders are struggling to get a comprehensive view of what’s happening with their infrastructure. They grapple with tons of tools, workflows, and environments that are difficult to get a handle on. When they start automating their infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and governance, they want to be able to see the status of their infrastructure and which workflows are running. Not being able to understand what’s happening also keeps them from making informed decisions, which can reduce their time time to market and make the overall process more error-prone.

The Dashboard gives customers a single pane of glass for visibility into the information they need about their infrastructure status and what’s happening with it in Spacelift. It provides an at-a-glance visibility into:

• The state of their stacks, including a highlight of anything that needs attention
• The size of their stacks and a highlight of the three largest ones
• Recent drift detection runs, drift detection coverage, and future scheduled runs
• Runs that require attention
• User activity
• Metrics for managed resources, run metrics, and resources health

The Dashboard is the new landing page for the Spacelift platform, so admin users will automatically see it as soon as they log in.

The Kubernetes Operator is an open-source operator that allows users to manage Spacelift resources using Kubernetes custom resources.

Platform and DevOps team leaders are trying to find ways to accelerate developer velocity and reduce errors without requiring developers to learn new tools. Giving developers the ability to self-provision, but forcing them to learn new infrastructure tools and languages, increases their cognitive load and slows them down when they would rather focus on their projects. This slows the pace of development and greatly increases the potential for mistakes.

The Kubernetes Operator allows developers to manage Spacelift resources using Kubernetes. They can:

• Create and update Stacks
• Create/pull status updates for runs
• Create and update Spaces
• Create and update Contexts
• Create and update policies

This enables them to quickly provision, configure, and manage their infrastructure without ever having to leave Kubernetes. This accelerates time to market and reduces errors because infrastructure apps can be deployed in a single workflow.

The Kubernetes Operator is currently in open Beta, and we’re actively collecting feedback. You can find the installation instructions here.

OpenTofu 1.8 was released on July 29th, offering features that developers have been requesting for years, including: 

• The ability to use variables and locals in terraform blocks and module sources and versions
• Support for the .tofu file extension, making it easier to use the new features of OpenTofu while maintaining compatibility with older Terraform code
• Provider mocking and resource overrides, which allow for more flexible testing similar to traditional software testing methods

As an OpenTofu contributor, we are always working to streamline and de-risk your transition from Terraform to OpenTofu. With this 1.8 release, migration is seamless. Customers can migrate all of their stacks from Terraform to OpenTofu by simply swapping one for the other.

We’re driven to make life easier for developers and platform teams, and that’s why we’ve created a test pilot program to gather feedback on our ideas and new functionality. If you’d like to join our beta programs, test new features before they’re released to the public, have input on our roadmap, and help shape our UI/UX as we build the future of infrastructure orchestration, join our test pilot program!

For customers who’d like to learn more about any of these features, check our documentation or get in touch with your CSM. If you’re not a Spacelift customer yet and you’d like to learn more about these features or about how we help companies deliver secure, cost-effective, and resilient infrastructure fast, book a demo with our team!