The Illusion of Infrastructure Automation Maturity
· via Spacelift
Summary: Most teams rate their automation maturity by what exists rather than by what they trust, and a pipeline nobody dares run on Friday is not maturity. The pitfalls are quiet: manual steps around the pipeline, state only one person understands, drift nobody measures. Closing the gap starts with measuring outcomes instead of counting tools.
Who should read it: platform leads who suspect their automation story sounds better in slides than it feels on call.