DEVOPSdigest

Spacelift announced Spacelift Intent, a new agentic, open source deployment model that enables the provisioning of cloud infrastructure through natural language without needing to write or maintain HCL.

Intent is available as open source, or an early access commercial version that is part of the Spacelift Infrastructure Orchestration Platform.

DevOps and Platform teams now have a choice: Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps for mission-critical workloads, or Spacelift Intent for non-critical workloads that require speed and agility without sacrificing compliance and control.

"Vibe coding has transformed how software is built, yet infrastructure automation is still stuck back in time," said Marcin Wyszynski, co-founder and chief R&D officer at Spacelift. "DevOps and Platform teams are writing HCL while their developer peers are prototyping and shipping features at lightning speed. With Intent, we asked, what if we could bring vibe coding to infrastructure provisioning, in a way that's safe, governed and complementary to IaC? That's what we've delivered with Spacelift Intent."

Spacelift Intent is available via open source or as an early access commercial offering. The commercial offering leverages the policy and security controls of the Spacelift Infrastructure Orchestration Platform. DevOps and Platform teams control the who, what, where of infrastructure deployed by Intent. They also get complete visibility into deployed resources and the reasoning behind what Intent deploys.

Key Features:

- Natural language provisioning – Developers interact with their preferred LLM or AI assistant via Model Context Protocol (MCP). Instead of generating code, Intent translates requests directly into provider API calls.

- Built on open foundations – Intent leverages the same Terraform providers used in IaC workflows. If it works in Terraform, it works in Intent.

- Governed by default – Inherits the Spacelift policy engine, state management and audit trails. Nothing slips through the cracks.

- Easy evolution – Any resource created by Intent can be promoted into full Terraform/OpenTofu code, making it simple to move from prototype to production.

Spacelift Intent is available now in two forms, as open source (available on GitHub) and in a commercial, early access program by Spacelift.