Scaling DevOps: Tackling Infrastructure Automation
DevOps.com, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Spacelift CEO Pawel Hytry dives into the infrastructure automation challenges DevOps teams are facing following the picking up of an additional $51 million in financing.
Infrastructure-as‑code was supposed to make provisioning easy-copy some Terraform, hit 'apply,' and move on. In practice, teams soon discover that version‑controlled snippets are only half the story. Once dozens of developers start spinning up resources, you still need collaboration, security reviews, cost oversight and a reliable audit trail. Hytry explains why his biggest customers hit a wall: what used to take a day to deploy now drags on for a week because manual approvals, rollbacks and duplicated code clog the pipeline. The tipping point usually arrives when an infrastructure lead realizes the team is hiring people just to babysit scripts.