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Sharing How HashiCorp Works
Sharing How HashiCorp Works

We're open sourcing How HashiCorp Works, a website that describes HashiCorp's individual, team, and company-wide best practices.

There's No One Right Way to Work Remotely
There's No One Right Way to Work Remotely

There's no one right way to work remotely. This blog shares stories of HashiCorp employees and their different remote working styles.

Announcing HashiCorp Private Terraform Enterprise on AWS, Azure, GCP, and VMware
Announcing HashiCorp Private Terraform Enterprise on AWS, Azure, GCP, and VMware

We’re pleased to announce HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise is now available to run as a private installation on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and VMware.

Mozilla uses Terraform and Atlas by HashiCorp to embrace infrastructure as code
Mozilla uses Terraform and Atlas by HashiCorp to embrace infrastructure as code

"We initially rolled our own solution for infrastructure CI and deployment. As the team grew, our homebrew solution struggled to centrally manage configuration, Terraform state, and access control," said Chris Lonnen, Internal Systems Architect at...

Using Consul at Bol.com, the Largest Online Retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium
Using Consul at Bol.com, the Largest Online Retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium

Bol.com is the largest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium offering, as of May, a catalog of 9.3 million products to its 5.4 million customers. Powering the online shopping experience is a collection of more than 130 different applications and services that all need to work together. The bol.com team is constantly looking for ways to improve; a mission which has taken us from a collection of several software monoliths to a service-oriented architecture. Recently, we decided to start using HashiCorp's Consul for dynamic service discovery. In our previous setup a configuration update would take 15 to 20 minutes before the changes propagated across the system. Using Consul, these are now made in near real-time which enables us to develop more resilient software systems, faster.

Consul in a Microservices Environment at Neofonie GmbH
Consul in a Microservices Environment at Neofonie GmbH

Neofonie GmbH is a German software company with offices in Berlin and Hamburg. The firm is a solution and full-service provider specializing on portals, search, social media, e-publishing and mobile applications. With a range of clients and services, Neofonie works in highly complex, fast-changing environments. Neofonie uses a three-stage continuous delivery pipeline which uses Consul as a foundation to safely move applications between environments.

How BitBrains/ASP4all uses Consul for Continuous Deployment across Development, Testing, Acceptance, and Production
How BitBrains/ASP4all uses Consul for Continuous Deployment across Development, Testing, Acceptance, and Production

BitBrains and ASP4all are Dutch infrastructure companies that provide infrastructure hosting and services to clients ranging from large government departments to small web shops. They are currently in the process of merging into one company. They have seen infrastructure challenges of all shapes and sizes, and have a high level of expertise solving these problems. As part of the merger they have created a new team called DeltaForce. This team has created a tool which will allows their customer-facing engineers to programmatically deploy infrastructure for new customers and to update the infrastructure of existing customers through a single, defined interface. This tool uses Consul as the foundation for continuous deployment to these environments. Consul's DNS, Key-Value store, and GUI have given DeltaForce a simple mechanism for reliably delivering software.

Vagrant Up and Running with VMware's Project Photon
Vagrant Up and Running with VMware's Project Photon

Project Photon by VMware is a container-optimized Linux operating system that was announced today. We have packaged it as a Vagrant box to make experimenting with Photon using Vagrant an easy and enjoyable process.

How Lithium Technologies Uses Consul in a Hybrid-Cloud Infrastructure
How Lithium Technologies Uses Consul in a Hybrid-Cloud Infrastructure

Lithium Technologies provides a complete social platform to some of the world's most well-known brands across tech, consumer electronics, financial services, retail, and other industries. These brands rely on the Lithium Social Platform to power customer communities, respond to social media conversations, and drive social analytics. The Lithium infrastructure manages complex real-time data ingestion and processing. To meet the needs of customers and plan for long-term growth, Lithium decided to build out a hybrid-cloud infrastructure. Consul enables automated service discovery and load balancing in Lithium's hybrid-cloud environment, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant development time.