Company, partner, and customer news, along with event and community announcements.

Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp.

Mitchell's New Role at HashiCorp

Here’s what to expect from the first developer-focused edition of HashiTalks — and why you don't want to miss this virtual community event on July 21 and 22, 2021.

Introducing HashiTalks: Build, a Developer-Focused Edition of Our Community Event

93% of our employees say HashiCorp is a great place to work. In this blog, we share the results from our recent Great Place to Work Trust Index employee survey. 

HashiCorp Certified a Great Place to Work 

HashiConf Europe 2021 is coming June 8-11. Here are some of the highlights that you don’t want to miss, from customer stories to product deep-dives. 

The HashiConf Europe Highlights You Don’t Want to Miss

Learn about our plans for this year’s KubeCon Europe virtual conference and get CNCF- and Kubernetes-related updates on our products.

A Guide to HashiCorp at KubeCon Europe Virtual 2021

Leading candidate interviewing platform uses HashiCorp Vault to secure backend systems and sensitive personal information for a safe, seamless recruitment process.

How HireVue Uses HashiCorp Vault to Enable Faster, More Secure Candidate Recruitment

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

Sharing How HashiCorp Works

Submit an application or nomination for HashiCorp Ambassador recognition.

HashiCorp Ambassador Call for Submissions

A look back at some of the major moments in 2020 for HashiCorp

HashiCorp 2020 Year in Review

JPMorgan Chase, an early development partner of Terraform Enterprise, inducts HashiCorp into the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation as a user of several of our products.

HashiCorp Inducted Into JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation

Building on our security foundation, HashiCorp has obtained our first SOC II Type II report and ISO 27001 certificate for many of our enterprise products. 

HashiCorp Compliance Program Updates 

The annual, all-day virtual community event, HashiTalks, will return for its third iteration on 18 February 2021.

Announcing HashiTalks 2021 Call for Proposals

This blog is a summary of HashiCorp activities at AWS re:Invent 2020. 

HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent 2020

In this blog, we round-up all of the KubeCon related activities HashiCorp will be doing this week at the virtual conference and adjacent to it. 

HashiCorp and KubeCon North America Virtual

HashiCorp Terraform Cloud selected as a finalist in the category of Cloud Tools & Management by CRN editors. 

HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Named a Finalist for 2020 CRN Tech Innovator Award

Autodesk Research uses HashiCorp Nomad to explore ways to turn conventional industrial design processes on their head to improve product usability.

How Autodesk Uses HashiCorp Nomad to Modernize the Workflow of Making Things 

Announcing the 2020 HashiCorp Partner Network SI & Reseller Award winners 

Announcing the 2020 HashiCorp SI & Reseller Partner Network Winners 

In this blog, we share details about the new HashiCorp Early Career Program. 

Announcing the Launch of HashiCorp’s Early Career Program

The initial HashiCorp Store Expansion is here! Not only have we added a backpack, travel mug and unisex socks, but we are happy to announce that we have expanded shipping to 36 countries and territories.

HashiCorp Store Expansion

This blog gives you the most up-to-date information about how the HashiCorp product set fits into the CNCF ecosystem with projects such as Kubernetes, and the ways you can interact with our team at the event to gain the technical information you need.

HashiCorp and KubeCon Europe Virtual

With the impact of COVID-19, we have transformed this year’s annual HashiCorp community conferences into online events: HashiConf Digital. The very first edition took place June 22 to 24, 2020. 

Over 6,600 community members from 105 countries gathered online for three days to hear product announcements, take part in product workshops, share ideas, and deepen their knowledge of HashiCorp products.

Recap from the First HashiConf Digital in June

HashiConf Digital, our first fully digital community conference, will take place in just a couple of weeks from June 22-24, 2020. The program is packed with product updates, keynotes, technical sessions, workshops, and community connections all delivered through a new digital conference platform.

HashiConf Digital: a New Kind of HashiCorp Community Experience

We are eager to share our lessons learned from HashiTalks with the community in a time where organizations are pivoting to virtual events in light of the COVID-19 crisis.

Open Sourcing HashiTalks’ Project Plan

COVID-19 has increased pressure on the cloud to perform for every business, so we are offering a few services to help you (regardless if you are an open source or enterprise user) as you scale to support your own business and customers.

HashiCorp Assistance During COVID-19

To further HashiCorp product integrations with CNCF projects and to work more closely with the broad community of cloud engineers, today HashiCorp is joining the CNCF.

HashiCorp Joins the CNCF

HashiCorp is seeking Ambassador nominations to recognize community members for their efforts in sharing knowledge around HashiCorp tools. Nominations open now through April 5.

HashiCorp Ambassador Call for Nominations

We are pleased to offer a scholarship program for HashiConf US. This community conference will be held October 13-15 in San Diego, California.

HashiConf US 2020 Scholarship Open for Applications

It’s a tradition for us to close out the year with some reflection on the progress we have made. As we mark the close of a significant year, we note that it’s been an exciting year for HashiCorp with many appropriately significant milestones.

HashiCorp 2019 Year in Review

We are pleased to offer a scholarship program for HashiDays Sydney and HashiConf EU in Amsterdam.

HashiDays Sydney and HashiConf EU Scholarship Applications Now Open 

We are excited to announce that our global community conference program is expanding even further in 2020. For the very first time, our events will take place in three locations around the world: Sydney, Amsterdam, and San Diego.

San Diego, Amsterdam, and Sydney - HashiCorp community conferences are going global

Today we are announcing the HashiCorp Store. The launch of the store has been long anticipated by the community and we are pleased to offer an initial selection, which includes a hoodie, t-shirt, and mug.

Introducing the HashiCorp Store

AWS and HashiCorp have worked together closely for many years on multiple fronts, especially product engineering. If you’re attending re:Invent, we have a list of sessions covering HashiCorp topics below as well as information about how we’re involved in other areas of the conference.

HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent: Breakout Sessions Featuring HashiCorp Products

We are pleased to announce that our all-day virtual event, HashiTalks, returns on February 20, 2020. Join us as speakers from the community share how they use HashiCorp tools in their workflows.

Announcing HashiTalks 2020 Registration and CFP

Every October, open source projects participate in a global event called Hacktoberfest. The event promotes open source and helps beginners learn to contribute. This year HashiCorp's Terraform AWS Provider and Nomad projects would like your help!

Join HashiCorp OSS projects for Hacktoberfest 2019 

Over 200 organizers continue to engage their local chapters by creating environments for learning, sharing, and discussing HashiCorp tooling.

Building Richer Interactions in the HashiCorp Community

We started the HashiCorp User Group (HUG) program with the goal of bringing together members of our community to educate each other on our tools, best practices, emerging patterns, and to build a stronger sense of community.

Celebrating Our HashiCorp User Group Community - 25,000 and Growing! 

This September we are excited to bring HashiConf, HashiCorp’s fifth annual and flagship community conference, to Seattle. With 40+ sessions, 12 in-depth trainings, product releases, and the chance to connect with HashiCorp engineers and product experts, we hope that you will find this year's conference schedule as inspiring as the many members that make up the community itself.

Announcing the Full Schedule for HashiConf in Seattle

In a few weeks, HashiCorp staff will join infrastructure operators, administrators, developers, and practitioners in Amsterdam for HashiConf EU, including one full day dedicated to product training. Every course has been updated for recent features to give you a hands-on experience that will help you become confident using HashiCorp infrastructure automation tools.

What to Expect at HashiConf EU Training Day

DevOps Barcelona is coming up and we are pleased to sponsor this community-organized conference.

HashiCorp at DevOps Barcelona

Today we’re announcing the HashiCorp Community Portal, a single source for all members of our community to learn, share, and discuss HashiCorp products.

The community portal includes a new discussion forum, video content, product guides, local in-person events (HashiCorp User Groups), and more. We recognize that individuals want to engage with the community in different ways at different moments and the community portal is meant to reflect this.

Introducing the HashiCorp Community Portal

We're excited to announce that Talha Tariq has joined HashiCorp as Chief Security Officer.

Welcoming Talha Tariq to HashiCorp

At HashiCorp, we are always looking for new ways to engage our community, more importantly, finding new avenues to showcase how our community uses our products. We're pleased to announce the first ever all-day virtual event called HashiTalks.

HashiTalks 2019

For the second year, HashiCorp offers a Diversity Scholarship to help members of groups underrepresented in the tech and open source attend HashiConf EU (8–10 July, 2019 in Amsterdam) and HashiConf US (9-11 September, 2019 in Seattle, WA).

HashiCorp 2019 Diversity Scholarship Applications Now Open

In this blog post we give a brief overview of how to enable cloud-based auto unseal in Vault open source. If you're already using Vault, you'll need to migrate to auto unseal, but don't worry, you can migrate back to manual unseal whenever you like. If you've been waiting to give open source Vault a try because of the hassle of unsealing, now's a good time!

Enabling Cloud-based Auto Unseal in Vault Open Source

As we approach the end of 2018, it is a good opportunity to reflect on the past year. It’s been an exciting year for HashiCorp, with many milestones. We’d like to take a moment to thank our users, customers, partners, and employees for making it possible. 

There are many things we could highlight, but in the interest of keeping things brief, here are a few that we’ve chosen.

2018 Year In Review

We're introducing a CLA (Contributor License Agreement) requirement for any and all contributions across our open source projects. Open source is at the core of what we do and who we are as a company and deeply important to me personally, so I want to take time to explain why, what this means, and how we're rolling this out.

Introducing a CLA to Open Source Contributions

We are excited to be part of Microsoft Ignite this year in Orlando, Florida.  The HashiCorp and Microsoft partnership continues to extend and deepen so that we can offer our joint customers and users the best tools for building and running applications deployed on cloud infrastructure.

HashiCorp at Microsoft Ignite

We at HashiCorp are pleased to introduce the new Terraform Provider Enablement project, making it easier than ever for Go developers to give Terraform's users access to their favorite clouds and services.

Help for Terraform Provider Developers

HashiCorp hosted HashiDays from June 25 to June 27 in Amsterdam. It is a three-day, deeply technical, and community-focused event. HashiDays brings together customers, practitioners, as well as HashiCorp employees to explore and discuss different areas and topics ranging from customer stories and use cases, to technical product exploration and trainings.

HashiDays Amsterdam 2018 Recap

We are excited to introduce HashiCast - a podcast about the world of cloud infrastructure. This podcast will highlight people, and technology from companies in the technology community, as well as insight and news from HashiCorp itself. We have a great lineup of guests for HashiCast, and we can’t wait to share them with you!

Introducing HashiCast

Last year, HashiCorp gave away a number of conference passes to the various organizations to join us for HashiConf, our flagship user conference. This year we are excited to build on that contribution and introduce HashiCorp Diversity Scholarship Program. The intent is to assist members of our community who are from underrepresented groups in the technology and open source communities with these scholarships— to cover the costs associated with HashiConf or HashiDays conferences.

Announcing HashiCorp Diversity Scholarship Program

Last week the HashiCorp User Groups (HUGs) became 10,000 members strong.

Celebrating Our User Group Community - 10,000 and Growing

We're excited to announce that Preeti Somal has joined HashiCorp as our new Vice President of Engineering.

Welcoming Preeti Somal to HashiCorp

In the same way that we can embed Sentinel into a pipeline to enforce policy for Terraform plans, or Vault secrets, we can also enforce policy in a continuous delivery pipeline.

In this post, we are going to examine how Sentinel Policy and the Sentinel Simulator can be used to ensure your CD system only deploys your application within a specified time window.

Using Sentinel Policy to enforce continuous deployment windows

As we close out the year, we wanted to reflect on our amazing progress this year. In just the last year, we’ve gone from around 60 people with a majority in engineering, to over 160 across all groups. We’ve shipped more open source releases than in any previous years, delivered four commercial products, raised a $40M Series C, announced major partnerships, and added over a hundred new customers. And this list is only a subset of the last year!

2017 Year in Review

We are excited to be part of AWS re:Invent again this year in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The event is a great place to connect face-to-face with community and customers, a great showcase of our ongoing work with AWS, and a perfect location to announce day-1 support for one of their newly released services.

AWS re:Invent 2017: HashiCorp Booth, Demos, Announcements, and more

Today at HashiConf we released Sentinel. Sentinel is an embedded policy as code framework in the HashiCorp Enterprise products to enable fine-grained, logic-based policy decisions that can be extended to source external information to make decisions.

Announcing Sentinel, HashiCorp’s Policy as Code Framework

HashiCorp has a strong commitment to invest in both the community and the ecosystem that is emerging around the HashiCorp products. As an open source company, our investment is critical to build this ecosystem, which will in turn help us continue to drive innovation, growth, and success for our users and customers.

Today, we are announcing an example of this investment: the launch of the HashiCorp Partner Network. As part of this launch, we are announcing Reseller and System Integrator programs. In addition, we are including our strong, existing Cloud, Technology and Training partnerships as a part of the HashiCorp Partner Network. All of this will enable us to continue to work closely with the community as well as attract new partners who wish to leverage the HashiCorp suite of products to grow their businesses.

Announcing the HashiCorp Partner Network

HashiCorp hosted HashiDays in London on June 12, the second event from our new series created as one-day, single-track, deeply technical, and community-focused events. HashiDays brings together customers, practitioners, as well as HashiCorp employees to explore and discuss different areas around infrastructure and cloud adoption, with topics ranging from customer stories and use cases, to technical product exploration.

Recap and Videos from HashiDays London

Today we are proud to announce our first publication by HashiCorp Research, titled "Lifeguard: SWIM-ing with Situational Awareness". The paper details a number of novel improvements we have introduced to Serf, Consul, and Nomad to make their underlying gossip protocol more robust. Collectively called Lifeguard, these extensions reduce by 50x the false positives produced by the failure detector and allow us to detect true failures faster.

Distributed systems such as BitTorrent, Apache Cassandra, Microsoft Orleans, and HashiCorp Consul commonly use Gossip protocols. They are typically embedded to provide features such as cluster membership (who is in the cluster), failure detection (which members are alive), and event broadcast. Their peer to peer nature often makes them much more scalable and reliable than centralized approaches to solving the same problem. However, the reduced amount of communication makes them sensitive to slow processing of their messages.

Many of our tools leverage work from the academic community, and with HashiCorp Research we hope to contribute back. Our focus is on novel work and whitepapers about the algorithms and system designs we are using in practice. Lifeguard is our first published work, and  our users operating the tools in production environments drive the focus of these improvements.

Read on to learn more about Lifeguard.

Making Gossip More Robust with Lifeguard

HashiCorp hosted the very first HashiDays on May 15 in New York. HashiDays is a new series created as one-day, single-track, deeply technical, and community-focused events. HashiDays brings together customers, practitioners, as well as HashiCorp employees to explore and discuss different areas and topics ranging from customer stories and use cases, to technical product exploration.

Recap and Videos From Our First HashiDays in New York City 

This is a guest blog from Henrik Grankvist, COO at Elastx. Elastx is a HashiCorp Technology Partner.
Elastx is a Swedish based public cloud provider. We offer two fully automated cloud platforms, IaaS and PaaS. The underlying foundation is  based on our Jelastic PaaS and OpenStack platform. Our datacenters are throughout Sweden and are 20 kilometers from one another. This is ideal for building cloud-based environments with high-availability and disaster recovery in-mind. We offer 100Gbps core network connectivity. The latency between our datacenters is less than 0.5ms. We have been running OpenStack in production since 2014. We were the first Nordic cloud provider to join the OpenStack foundation. The OpenStack deployment supports standard API's with both ISO14001 and ISO27001 certifications. 
Elastx believes the best way we can help companies is with sustainable, automated IT.
We focus on codified infrastructure for our IaaS, PaaS, and bare metal solutions. The codified infrastructure is the foundation of automation for our customers. Terraform and the other HashiCorp products enable us to build this infrastructure stack.

Bonnier News uses Elastx and HashiCorp to create their new digital platform

We recently announced HashiConf 2017 in Austin, TX. The Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 6 (SB6), which targets transgender individuals by requiring they use the bathroom of the gender designated on their birth-certificate. HashiConf is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form.

HashiConf 2017 and Texas "Bathroom Bill"

HashiConf is HashiCorp's annual technology and user conference. This year, HashiConf takes place September 18-20 in Austin, Texas. In addition to a full day of product trainings on September 18th, there will be two days of  technical talks, discussions, keynotes, and networking with peers. HashiConf is the best opportunity to share knowledge with the HashiCorp community about the future of infrastructure as companies adopt DevOps principles and cloud technologies.

Announcing HashiConf 2017

This partner blog is written by Rik Farenhorst, DevOps leader at Xebia and CEO of Xebia's latest product company, called instruqt. Xebia is one of HashiCorp's partners in Europe, co-organized HashiConf EU in 2016, and is a leader in DevOps training, consultancy and solutions in the Netherlands, France and India. Xebians are quite experienced in most of HashiCorp's products and use and advocate them at their customers.
Xebia instruqt provides a learning platform for DevOps tools. Last year we noticed a significant shortage in DevOps talent. DevOps concepts are often hard to master for organizations transitioning to DevOps. We have been using HashiCorp products in our customer projects for some time. Our observation is many organizations have a DevOps skill gaps. This becomes a showstopper for the innovation power and speed required to remain competitive in today's digital era.  In our quest for an effective approach to transfer knowledge and skills we always focused on: coaching-on-the-job, forming specialized DevOps teams that include experts from the customer, and on-site classroom based training. These methods have merit but they are not the most effective or fun way to learn. We were on the search for an alternative way to spread the word about leading DevOps products.

Xebia Provides A Learning Platform For HashiCorp Tools

We are confident there is minimal risk with no disclosure of personal information.

Impact of Cloudbleed at HashiCorp

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the public clouds supported by HashiCorp. GCP provides a rich set of services and features and is one of the core providers we dedicate resources to. Our focus being on testing, improving the performance of existing resources, and building support for new features.
GCP has differentiated themselves with their provisioning speed and consistency of Virtual Machines. This capability was super impressive to us and we wanted to put that to the test… and with that was born the Million Container Challenge with GCP and Nomad. The benchmark test scheduled 1,000,000 Docker containers on 5,000 hosts in under 5 minutes. GCP offers per-minute billing, ideal for microservices where resources are ephemeral. For example, a user may spin up runtime resources hundreds of times per hour but only pay for the time used, as opposed to paying for the entire hour.
Our work with GCP is key to deliver on our vision: any infrastructure for any application.  We have teamed up with Google to build a set of four bite-size videos that discuss HashiCorp tools on GCP. The videos provide an introduction to the tools, demos, and steps to getting started.

Google Video Mini-series Featuring HashiCorp Products

2016 was an astonishing year at HashiCorp, and I want to take a moment to reflect and share our story with you.

2016 Year in Review

Today we are excited to formally release DevOps Defined, a guide for adopting DevOps to accelerate application delivery. Two years ago we published our Tao of HashiCorp, in which we detailed the design principles and philosophy behind our tools. Since then we have launched several new open source projects including Vault and Nomad which follow the Tao. It has been an extremely useful resource for giving our technology a shared direction.
However, technology is just one aspect software development. Software organizations are composed of people, processes, and technology. While it's easy to focus on just the technology, it is ultimately just an enabler of successful people and process. Thus, it's important to understand the workflows and productivity of the people that power software organizations. Our organizations should be designed to align teams through empowering workflows. To us, that is the essence of DevOps.

HashiCorp, DevOps, and the Application Delivery Process

At HashiCorp, we make tools that automate the modern datacenter, so you can secure, provision, and run any application on any infrastructure. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Quick Start Guides for two of our popular open source tools: Consul and Vault.

Consul and Vault on AWS: Quick Start Guides

Today we are releasing Serf 0.8. Serf is a decentralized solution for cluster membership, failure detection, and orchestration. Serf is in use in some huge deployments (more than 10,000 machines in a single cluster), and powers Consul and Nomad.

This release brings improvements in Serf's gossip protocol which provide better robustness for applications that rely on Serf to detect the health of nodes in a cluster. It also includes some smaller updates and one important bug fix.

You can download Serf 0.8 here or view the changelog

Read on to learn more about the gossip protocol improvements in Serf 0.8.

HashiCorp Serf 0.8

HashiCorp tools continue to surge in adoption with more than a million downloads in the past year. The tools provide enterprise customers with common workflows through which they can develop, deploy, and schedule their infrastructure in a collaborative, scalable, and secure way. While well documented and easy to adopt, many organizers prefer an on-site instructor to discuss the features and best practices for using the tools. To codify these best practices and ensure that the tools are used properly and safely HashiCorp engineers have developed an official training curriculum.  These trainings have been delivered by HashiCorp and have helped grow the community of expert-users, folks who truly know the inner workings of the HashiCorp tools.
So far this year, over 500 individuals have completed HashiCorp trainings, many of which received certifications on one or more HashiCorp products (Vault, Terraform, Consul). As the adoption of HashiCorp continues to grow, so does the demand for training.  In order to scale to meet the demand for training, HashiCorp is announcing our inaugural Training Partner Program. The Training Partner Program includes only a couple partners - who demonstrate expertise in HashiCorp products and technical training programs – allowing the program to be piloted and fine-tuned before being scaled out. We would like to offer a warm welcome to our inaugural Training Partners: Amazic and ECS Digital!

Announcing the HashiCorp Training Partner Program

We are proud to host our second annual HashiConf US in Napa, California. HashiConf is an opportunity to gather our global user community to discuss where we have been, where we are going, and how HashiCorp DevOps tools can be used to solve the infrastructure challenges of today.

Our development, operations, and security tools have been adopted by a range of companies, from startups to large enterprises and governments. As organizations build mission critical applications around our tools, it is important for us to invest responsibly to maintain stable growth.

Today at HashiConf we are excited to announce $24 million in Series B financing, alongside updates to our tools and the general availability of Vault Enterprise.

HashiConf 2016 Announcements

We are excited to announce HashiConf from September 6th to September 8th at the Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa Valley, California. HashiConf is an opportunity for the community to come together to share knowledge and improve the state of software infrastructure.HashiConf gives us an opportunity to present our vision for the future of infrastructure. Last year we announced Nomad and Otto during the opening keynote. The keynotes and talks from last year can be viewed here. This year, we will push the state of the art in infrastructure even further. You won't want to miss it.Join us for one day of training and two days of talks to define the future of infrastructure and how to get there.

Announcing HashiConf 2016

We are excited to announce the first HashiConf EU from June 13th to June 15th at Westerliefde in Amsterdam, Netherlands. HashiConf EU will be one day of training followed by two days of talks dedicated to all things HashiCorp. The training day will have four training courses across beginner and advanced levels taught by HashiCorp engineers. Conference presentations will be given by experienced users of our tools and HashiCorp's project leads. We are delighted that Xebia is our conference and knowledge partner, and is fully committed to make it a success.Join us for three days in Amsterdam to celebrate the HashiCorp community and apply our collective experience to automate infrastructure management.

Announcing HashiConf EU 2016

In November we announced our partnership with Fastly to power the new HashiCorp releases service. Since then, we have expanded our use of Fastly to front all of our static sites. You may have noticed subtle frontend and backend changes to our various websites - this post details the steps we took to migrate our static sites to Fastly.

Serving Static Sites with Fastly, S3, and Middleman

Today we are releasing Serf 0.7. Serf is a decentralized solution for cluster membership, failure detection, and orchestration. Serf is in use in some huge deployments (more than 10,000 machines in a single cluster), and powers Consul and Nomad.

This release brings a major new network tomography subsystem which allows you to build a map of network round trip times for your cluster. It also includes a number of smaller improvements around better handling of misconfigured and misbehaving networks.

You can download Serf 0.7 here or view the changelog

Read on to learn more about the major new features in 0.7.

HashiCorp Serf 0.7

We are excited to announce the publication of the first ever HashiCorp book in Japanese by one of our partners, Creationline. The 120 page book presents a comprehensive view of the HashiCorp toolset, covering the use of Vagrant for standing-up development...

First HashiCorp book in Japanese

We are very excited to announce our new strategic partnership with Fastly, one of the most popular modern CDN services. In addition to providing a rock-solid service, they are proponents of open source software, and we are very excited to work with them at HashiCorp.

HashiCorp + Fastly

"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...

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

On behalf of the entire HashiCorp team, I want to say thank you for an amazing
HashiConf 2015. This blog post details some of the key highlights including the
post-conference survey results.

It has been a week since HashiConf 2015 first began, but we are already hard at
work planning for 2016! We have received overwhelmingly positive feedback, and
we are very excited to share them with you today. But first, some housekeeping
notes.

HashiConf 2015 Wrap Up

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.

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

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.

Consul in a Microservices Environment at Neofonie GmbH

We're having our first ever HashiConf September 28 and September 29, 2015 at the Gerding Theater at the Armory in Portland, OR. HashiConf is a conference dedicated to modern datacenter automation, from development to production.

The two day conference will have highly technical talks covering all our tools: Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, and Vault. Talks will range from tool introductions to advanced usage, and we'd like to invite talks about any other tools in the ecosystem as well.

And without saying too much, the keynote is an event you'll not want to miss.

Join us for this two day event this fall with the entire HashiCorp team and meet the smartest and most passionate HashiCorp users from around the world. Let's experience the future of the datacenter together.

Announcing HashiConf 2015

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.

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

The Tao of HashiCorp is the foundation that guides our vision, roadmap, and product design. As you evaluate using or contributing to HashiCorp's products, it may be valuable to understand the motivations and intentions for our work.

The Tao of HashiCorp

We're approaching the end of the first full calendar year of HashiCorp, and it has been an incredible year in many ways. We wanted to share with you what we achieved in 2013 and to briefly touch upon 2014.

HashiCorp: 2013 in Review

Today I announce the launch of HashiCorp. I am Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator and maintainer of Vagrant, and I am founding HashiCorp to drive Vagrant's development forward.

Vagrant has become a trusted tool in the industry in the three years since its release, with users ranging from individuals to entire development teams in large companies. All this despite it being a side project for me, receiving 2-4 hours a day when I had free time.

I want to make Vagrant better. I want to dedicate my time to the product, its ecosystem, and its users. Forming HashiCorp gives me the framework for realizing my goals for Vagrant.