How to Automate Terraform Deployments and Infrastructure
· via Spacelift
Summary: Laptop applies stop scaling the day a second person touches the code, and the loop worth automating is plan on pull request, review, apply on merge. General CI/CD works but leaves state, credentials and plan review as your problem. Purpose-built platforms trade some control for guardrails and visibility that pipelines lack out of the box.
Who should read it: teams still applying from laptops, and anyone choosing between building and buying their Terraform pipeline.