Azure Resource Manager vs. Spacelift

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is Microsoft's deployment and management service for Azure, providing a unified layer to create, update, and delete resources within your Azure account. It enables users to manage their infrastructure through declarative templates, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments across various environments. By organizing resources into groups, ARM simplifies monitoring, access control, and billing, offering a streamlined approach to resource management.

The Spacelift orchestration platform combines infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and governance to increase platform team efficiency, accelerate developer velocity, and control costs. It connects to and orchestrates infrastructure as code (IaC), version control systems (VCSs), observability tools, control and governance solutions, and cloud providers to help deliver secure infrastructure faster.