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Spacelift: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform combining IaC and GitOps pipelines. It manages Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi and Kubernetes, and can run Ansible for configuration in the same workflow. Platform teams model environments as stacks, enforce OPA-based policies for plans and approvals, delegate access with RBAC, detect drift and keep an audit trail of runs and changes. Spacelift is delivered as managed SaaS, or self-hosted in the customer's own cloud or on premises, including air-gapped environments. Private workers run jobs on infrastructure the customer controls.

The contracting entity named on Spacelift's site is Spacelift, Inc.; an AWS case study describes the company as based in Poland and the US. It is proprietary software. The vendor states that data is encrypted at rest and in transit and that its platform uses AWS services. The pages consulted do not state in which region the SaaS stores customer data, so organisations with data residency requirements should confirm this with the vendor or choose the self-hosted option.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked July 2, 2026
Headquarters
PL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents
Hosting signal
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Type
Product
Website

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Spacelift

The European alternatives to Spacelift come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Spacelift

Spacelift is headquartered in PL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Spacelift scores best on data residency.

Spacelift is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Spacelift together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Spacelift?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Spacelift include Buddy, CFEngine and Checkmk. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Spacelift?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Spacelift include CFEngine, Checkmk, Codeberg and Eclipse Che. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Spacelift GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Spacelift is headquartered in PL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Spacelift an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
spacelift.io/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in DevOps

DevOps: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, container registries. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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