D2DO270: Spacelift Is Your Infrastructure Glue (Sponsored)
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Summary
Working with multiple Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools can be painful. Spacelift provides a platform that operates on top of disparate IaC tools, including Ansible, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform, and OpenTofu. Spacelift helps build the automation with and between these tools, creating graphs of graphs that make your dependencies just work. On today’s show, we talk with Marcin Wyszyński and Joey Stout from Spacelift to explain how this product makes IaC tool migration and integration less painful and more automated.
Episode Guest: Marcin Wyszynski and Joey Stout
Marcin Wyszynski, Co-Founder, Chief R&D Officer, Spacelift
Marcin Wyszynski is the co-founder and Chief R&D Officer at Spacelift. He also is co-founder of the OpenTofu project. He started his career as an SRE for Google, then moved into software engineering at Facebook. An entrepreneur at heart, Wyszynski went on to start several companies.
Joey Stout, Solutions Architect, Spacelift
As an engineer, Joey Stout has lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions for clients across various industries. He leverages his expertise in Kubernetes, OpenTofu/Terraform, and AWS to optimize the performance, security, and efficiency of the cloud infrastructure and applications. He is currently a Solutions Architect at Spacelift.
Full Episode Sponsor: Spacelift
Founded by the creator of geopoiesis, Spacelift provides a collaboration and automation layer for infrastructure as a code. Without going into a technical minutiae, Spacelift focuses on openness, flexibility, and customization aiming for power users. Spacelift hopes to be appreciated by more sophisticated and security-conscious users. Spacelift works with any IaC setup and is capable of working as a self-hosted agent on infrastructure, therefore offering maximum security without sacrificing the functionality. Spacelift’s solution is built on top of well-known and well-loved open source components like Docker and Open Policy Agent, allowing full customization while maintaining sensible defaults.
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