Feb 3
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Terraform with GitHub Actions is a solid starting point for automation, but it has limitations as you scale. In this video, we will build a complete Terraform workflow and then show what teams use when GitHub Actions becomes the bottleneck. Additional resources: https://spacelift.io/blog/github-actions-terraform https://spacelift.io/blog/github-actions-alternatives If you want to see Spacelift in action and how it can help your organization, book a personalized demo here: https://spacelift.io/schedule-demo After the walkthrough, we zoom out to cover the issues that typically arise when more people and environments are involved. We talk about why state locking becomes critical as soon as runs overlap, why long-lived credentials turn into an operational burden, how dev staging and prod quickly lead to workflow duplication, and why governance in CI usually means stitching together checks and hoping they stay consistent. We also discuss drift, what happens when infrastructure changes outside Terraform, and what you need to build if you want detection and safe remediation. Finally, we show how dedicated Terraform automation platforms like Spacelift address these problems with built-in state handling and locking, dynamic cloud credentials, policy as code guardrails that can block risky plans, drift monitoring, and cleaner multi-environment orchestration. Chapters: 00:00-00:22 Intro 00:22-00:52 Repo and remote state setup 00:52-01:19 Secrets and credentials 01:19-02:12 GitHub Actions workflow build 02:12-03:33 Terraform with GitHub Actions at scale 03:33-04:32 Why teams switch to Spacelift 04:32-04:54 Recap More information on Spacelift: Website: https://spacelift.io/ How it works: https://spacelift.io/how-it-works Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spacelift-io/ #Terraform #GitHubActions #DevOps #InfrastructureAsCode #Spacelift