Spacelift unveils AI layer to speed cloud infrastructure

Spacelift has launched Spacelift Intelligence, a set of AI features that adds a natural-language layer to its infrastructure orchestration platform. The release includes the general availability of Spacelift Intent.

The product targets infrastructure and platform teams facing rising demand for new environments as more software teams use AI coding tools and deploy more frequently. Spacelift positions the release as a way to help those teams respond faster while preserving established Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps processes for production work.

Spacelift Intelligence has two main components: Spacelift Intent and an AI assistant that works across the broader Spacelift platform. Both use natural-language interaction through a chat-style interface.

AI meets IaC

Spacelift Intent provides a natural-language path for prototyping and experimentation, aimed at situations where a development team needs infrastructure quickly for testing and feedback. Intent is designed to complement, not replace, existing IaC and GitOps workflows; IaC remains the system of record for production environments.

The Spacelift Intelligence assistant extends natural-language interaction beyond provisioning, covering environment understanding, policy creation, drift management, and troubleshooting. It is designed for teams using Intent, teams sticking with conventional IaC pipelines, and teams that mix both approaches.

Spacelift says the assistant can answer questions about infrastructure state, changes, and issues without requiring teams to search through logs or code. It also generates diagnostics for failed runs and provides onboarding guidance. Spacelift says these capabilities reduce reliance on informal, tribal knowledge.

Operational pressure

The announcement comes as more engineering teams adopt AI coding assistants in day-to-day development. Spacelift cited Google Cloud's 2025 DORA State of AI-assisted Software Development Report, which said 90% of developers use AI tools and that a quarter of their time is spent working alongside AI assistants.

Higher development throughput can create a mismatch with infrastructure processes that still require review steps, policy checks, and staged rollouts. Platform teams must also balance requests for new infrastructure with maintenance of what is already deployed.

Marcin Wyszynski, Spacelift Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer, said the company built the new operating model in response to this shift.

"Developers are moving so fast that traditional Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines alone can't keep up. They were designed in an era that never contemplated the modern speed of feedback and experimentation that AI-powered development demands," said Marcin Wyszynski, co-founder and chief R&D officer at Spacelift.

He added that early feedback from the Intent design preview influenced the broader Intelligence release.

"The Spacelift Intent design preview taught us that teams don't just need a faster way to deploy: they need AI to help them understand, design and manage infrastructure at the speed of AI code development. That's exactly what Spacelift Intelligence delivers," said Wyszynski.

How it fits

Spacelift sells an infrastructure orchestration platform that manages provisioning workflows and policy controls around common IaC tools. It works with Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible, among others. Spacelift says customers include Duolingo, Figma, Moody's, Checkout.com, 1Password, and Redfin.

Spacelift Intelligence is positioned as an additional layer across these workflows. Intent is framed as suitable for fast iteration and experimentation, while established IaC and GitOps pipelines remain central for repeatable, auditable production deployments.

The assistant sits across the platform rather than being limited to provisioning. Spacelift positions it as a way to interrogate current state and recent changes, generate diagnostics when automated runs fail, and create policies through natural-language prompts.

Spacelift says teams can adopt the AI features in stages, starting with visibility and learning and then expanding into provisioning and automation as trust grows. Additional AI features are planned, according to the company.

Spacelift plans to showcase Spacelift Intelligence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, where it will run live demonstrations and discuss use cases with attendees.