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Spacelift and the Button Everyone Was Afraid to Press
Spacelift’s cleverest product is not infrastructure automation. It is permission: a way for more people to change the cloud without turning every deployment into a trust fall.
The Cloud Tool That Learned to Say No
Scalr once made cloud provisioning so easy that customers asked it to stop. That failure led to a sharper idea: the useful platform is not the one that opens every door, but the one that lets developers move quickly without losing the keys.
env0
env0 (pronounced "env zero") is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) management and cloud governance platform that lets engineering teams run Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Kubernetes and Helm with self-service workflows, policy-as-code guardrails, cost visibility and drift detection. Founded in Israel in 2018, the company gives developers a fast, GitOps-driven way to provision cloud environments while platform and finance teams keep control over cost, security and compliance.
Resourcely (acquired by Anysphere)
Resourcely was a San Francisco cybersecurity startup that made cloud infrastructure secure and compliant by design. Its platform paired Blueprints - self-service templates that generate golden-path Terraform and OpenTofu - with Guardrails, a policy engine written in a human-friendly language called Really that catches misconfigurations before deployment. Founded in 2022 by Travis McPeak and Aladdin Almubayed and backed by $8M in seed funding, Resourcely was acquired by Anysphere (maker of the AI code editor Cursor) in July 2025, with McPeak joining to lead Cursor's security efforts.