VMblog:  If you were giving a KubeCon attendee a quick overview of the company, what would you say?  How would you describe the company? 

Dimitri Vlachos:  Spacelift is the creator of an Infrastructure as Code orchestration platform for managing the entire infrastructure lifecycle. Our platform integrates with tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible and many others - to increase platform team efficiency, accelerate developer velocity and control costs. We are also one of the co-creators and leading upstream contributors to OpenTofu, the community driven open source fork of Terraform.

VMblog:  Your company is sponsoring this year's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event. Can you talk about what that sponsorship looks like?

Vlachos:  For starters, we're a gold sponsor of OpenTofu Day on November 12. This is a co-located Kubecon event dedicated to the infrastructure-as-a-code community. Practitioners, experts and IaC enthusiasts get together for in-depth sessions about IaC essentials, discuss plans for the OpenTofu releases, and introduce projects being built on top of OpenTofu. Those interested in joining us at OpenTofu Day can register for an All-Access pass through LF Events. 

Spacelift is also a Silver sponsor of the main conference. 

VMblog:  How can attendees of the event find you?  What do you have planned at your booth this year?  What type of things will attendees be able to do at your booth?  

Vlachos:  Spacelift will be exhibiting at Booth R18. At the booth, we'll have demos and more information about how you can get involved with OpenTofu.

VMblog:  Is your company sponsoring any type of party or get together during the event that you'd like to notify attendees about? 

Vlachos:  Yes! We are hosting "Tee Offs + Tech Talks" on Tuesday, November 12 from 6:30 - 9:30. You can RSVP here.

VMblog:  Have you sponsored KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in the past?  If so, what is it about this show that keeps you coming back as a sponsor?

Vlachos:  Spacelift has supported KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events both in Europe and North America since the formation of the OpenTofu project in 2023. We have found it to be the premier event for our industry and an ideal place to co-locate OpenTofu Day. 

VMblog:  Can you double click on your company's technologies?  And talk about the types of problems you solve for a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon attendee.

Vlachos:  Here's the problem Spacelift addresses: Infrastructure, Platform, and DevOps leaders are delivering infrastructure and tooling for software developers at too slow a pace for the business to keep up. Infrastructure teams must move at a pace their existing teams and tech stacks can't support. 

However, they must balance this request for more speed with the need to provide high-quality, reliable, and secure infrastructure required for that innovation. This leads them to constantly bounce between optimizing for speed and control. The more they allow app devs to self-serve, the less control they have over the provisioned infrastructure. The more they invest in robust governance, the harder it is for dev teams to deliver projects on time. 

Spacelift orchestrates the entire infrastructure workflow - provisioning, configuration, and governance - by providing a single platform to manage and optimize IaC, configuration management, cloud resource governance & observability, and cross-team collaboration. Bottom line: Spacelift enables infrastructure teams to deliver secure, cost effective, and performant infrastructure that their business needs to innovate and compete.

VMblog:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is typically a great venue for a company to launch a new product or an update to an existing product. Will you be sharing any news or updates?

Vlachos:  We're focusing on engaging with the community at the event, but we have news planned for shortly after KubeCon, so stay tuned.

VMblog:  While thinking about your company's solutions, can you give readers a few examples of how your offerings are unique?  What are your differentiators?  What sets you apart from the competition?

Vlachos:  I would point to three distinct differentiators that set the Spacelift platform apart:

• First, Spacelift manages the entire infrastructure pipeline from provisioning to governance in a single workflow. We not only automate resource deployment and configuration but we also provide developer self-service, golden paths with guardrails, and an OPA policy engine.
• Secondly, Spacelift integrates with existing infrastructure tooling (e.g.,Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible, and more), so you don't have to disrupt your current workflows and you can get control over tool sprawl.
• Thirdly, we have the most security focused product team in the industry. That's why Spacelift offers the best policy engine integration and policy library and out-of-the-box policies for your infrastructure.

Spacelift is unique in that it's a founding member and leading upstream contributor to the OpenTofu open source project, and it is heavily invested in working with the community to shape the future of IaC and infrastructure automation.

VMblog:  The keynote stage will be covering a number of big topics, but what big changes or trends does your company see taking shape for 2025?

Vlachos:  One of the biggest shifts we'll see in 2025 in the world of infrastructure automation is that organizations will have solutions that go beyond provisioning to full infrastructure pipeline orchestration, and Spacelift will be leading the way. Come see us at Booth R18.