Cloudify vs Spacelift

Cloudify is an open-source platform for orchestrating infrastructure, cloud-native services, and distributed edge resources across multiple clouds. Its service-composition DSL models services spanning Cloudify and other orchestration domains. Cloudify Manager stores blueprints and deployments, runs workflows, and displays application topology, metrics, and logs. Plugins cover Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, and Terraform; documented integrations include AWS, Azure, Ansible, and Jenkins. CI/CD integrations are documented for Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and CircleCI. Security features include secret storage, encrypted internal communication, multi-tenancy, and role-based access control. Cloudify 6.2 release notes state ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification. Community and Premium can be deployed in Docker, a VM, or Kubernetes using a Helm chart; SaaS is hosted. Cloudify Community is free with no time limit, but requires Docker or a VM and cloud-provider access to run workloads. Premium has a free 60-day trial, requiring Docker, cloud access, and a valid activation license; trial functionality stops when the license expires.

Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform that automates plans, applies, policy checks, and drift detection, while recording actions for governance and security. It integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS CDK, Serverless, and Terragrunt. Source control connections include Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps; cloud and notification integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Governance features include OPA-based policies for plans, approvals, notifications, and security controls, along with Spaces, Contexts, and role-based access control. Deployment options include managed SaaS, self-hosting on a cloud provider, on-premises and air-gapped deployment, and FedRAMP-authorized SaaS. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 2 users and 1 public worker. Starter + costs $20,000 a year as an annual subscription. The pricing FAQ says Starter+, Business, and Enterprise subscriptions are annual and that features or workers cannot be removed from annual subscriptions. Spacelift says customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit and that it holds SOC 2 Type II certification.