Product news, tutorials, integrations, and deep dives.

HCP Vault is now generally available on AWS. HCP Vault gives you the power and security of HashiCorp Vault, without the complexity and overhead of managing it yourself.

Announcing HCP Vault General Availability

Learn how to use best practices-based modules to build production-grade Terraform deployments on AWS.

Terraform Modules on AWS

Learn a quick method for getting started with the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for Terraform using TypeScript as infrastructure code and provisioning on Microsoft Azure.

Building Azure Resources with TypeScript Using the CDK for Terraform

The Terraform AWS Provider now offers users the ability to define default tags at the provider level, simplifying tag management. 

Default Tags in the Terraform AWS Provider

Deploy, test, and explore various Consul use cases in record time with Docker Compose.

Explore HashiCorp Consul with Docker Compose

The Nomad Autoscaler has new plugins and capabilities to make it easier to achieve consistent autoscaling across cloud providers.

New Auto Scaling Strategy with HashiCorp Nomad 

The CNCF End User Technology Radar for secrets management reveals HashiCorp Vault has the broadest adoption across many companies and industries.

CNCF Technology Radar Highlights HashiCorp Vault’s Broad Multi-Cloud Adoption

Learn how to use CSI to expose secrets on a volume within a Kubernetes pod and retrieve them using our beta Vault Provider for the Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver. 

Retrieve HashiCorp Vault Secrets with Kubernetes CSI

HashiCorp Nomad 1.1 introduces new resource control features to improve efficiency, including memory oversubscription, reserved CPU cores, and improved UI visibility into resource utilization.

Managing Resources for Workloads with Nomad 1.1

The new Controlled Remote State Access feature in Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise adds a more granular way to control access to each workspace’s state file.

Announcing Controlled Remote State Access for Terraform Cloud and Enterprise

Nomad 1.1 delivers more than 10 new features to enable more flexible scheduling and a simplified operator experience.

Announcing HashiCorp Nomad 1.1 Beta

Want to earn some HashiCorp swag? Tell us about your Consul setup.

User Survey: How Do You Connect with Consul?

Learn how to use the HashiCorp Terraform Provider for Checkly to automate infrastructure-monitoring setup and configuration.

Monitoring as Code with Terraform Cloud and Checkly

Our final highlights blog for HashiTalks 2021 features our Terraform sessions.

HashiTalks 2021 Highlights: Terraform

Learn about the new HCL2-only templatefile function and how to use it in an http_content to preseed a virtual machine.

Using Template Files with HashiCorp Packer

Manage private environments through Terraform Cloud using self-hosted agents.

New Terraform Tutorial: Manage Private Environments using Terraform Cloud Agents

Automate a canary analysis and deployment with Spinnaker, Prometheus, and HashiCorp Consul service mesh on Kubernetes.

Automated Canary Deployment with HashiCorp Consul and Spinnaker

The new Snowflake database secrets engine for Vault supports static and dynamic roles as well as root credential rotation. 

Announcing the Snowflake Secrets Engine 

HashiCorp Consul updates 10,000 nodes and 172,000+ services in under 1 second in a new benchmark.

HashiCorp Consul Global Scale Benchmark

The answers to these questions from our HCP Consul early adopters might help you. 

Getting Started with  HCP Consul: Frequently Asked Questions

Consul 1.10 adds exciting new features such as transparent proxy for service mesh, support for xDS v3, streaming, dark mode, and observability enhancements.

Announcing Consul 1.10 Beta

The HashiCorp Packer team is excited to announce the release of Data Source, a new component type to fetch or compute data for use elsewhere in a Packer configuration. 

Announcing the Packer Data Source Component Type

Learn how to use the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes to manage the infrastructure lifecycle through a Kubernetes custom resource.

New Terraform Tutorial: Deploy Infrastructure with the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes

Boundary’s 0.2 release is highlighted by the availability of a new Open ID Connect (OIDC) authentication method and by the general availability of Boundary Desktop for MacOS.

Announcing HashiCorp Boundary 0.2

Terraform 0.15 delivers a wide set of stable interfaces that practitioners, partners, and organizations can rely on.

Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 0.15 General Availability 

The new workspace Overview page for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud gives you a quick and easy-to-reference panel for all the important details in each of your workspaces. 

New Workspace Overview for Terraform Cloud

Gain a deeper understanding of HashiCorp tools and products with 90-minute hands-on workshops at HashiConf Europe: Thursday and Friday, June 10 and 11, 2021.

HashiConf Europe Workshops: Key Takeaways and How to Book 

Autopilot for Integrated Storage is taking the operator experience to the next level.

Autopilot: Simplifying the Integrated Storage Experience with HashiCorp Vault

Git repository polling and remote runners come to HashiCorp Waypoint to enable powerful workflows such as GitOps, along with more major improvements.

Announcing HashiCorp Waypoint 0.3

Learn how to query remote data sources with Terraform in this new tutorial added to HashiCorp Learn. 

New Terraform Tutorial: Terraform Data Sources

Watch these highlighted talks on HashiCorp Vault from our 2021 HashiTalks community event.

HashiTalks 2021 Highlights: Vault

Try out the new features introduced in Vault 1.7 with step-by-step tutorials on Hashicorp Learn.

New Vault Tutorials: Vault 1.7 Release Highlights

Terraform Enterprise now offers customers the ability to consume private modules across organizations, providing greater management consistency. 

Share Modules Across Organizations with Terraform Enterprise

Learn how to deploy applications to Kubernetes clusters and create Datadog monitoring resources using Terraform providers.

New Terraform Tutorials: Getting Started with the Helm and Datadog Providers

HashiCorp Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) is now generally available. CTS enables operations to achieve Network Infrastructure Automation leveraging Terraform’s robust provider ecosystem.

Consul-Terraform-Sync Now Generally Available

This release features a new Integrated Storage Autopilot feature along with production readiness for Tokenization via Transform and the Key Management Secrets Engine.

Announcing HashiCorp Vault 1.7

Watch these highlighted talks from our 2021 HashiTalks community event. This recap features talks on HashiCorp Nomad and Consul.

HashiTalks 2021 Highlights: Nomad and Consul

Learn how to use application load balancers for blue-green and canary deployments with this new tutorial on HashiCorp Learn. 

New Terraform Tutorial: Use Application Load Balancers for Blue-Green and Canary Deployments

This HashiCorp Learn tutorial will teach you about our recommended enterprise patterns for modules so that you can apply them to your organization’s workflows. 

New Terraform Tutorial: Module Creation - Recommended Pattern

HCP Consul now offers an hourly, production-ready self-service option for customers.

Announcing Self-Service Production Clusters for HCP Consul

What's new with Boundary Desktop and Boundary 0.1.8

Boundary Desktop Beta & Boundary 0.1.8 Released

Learn how to leverage the Terraform Enterprise (TFE) provider to automate your Terraform Cloud workflows 

New Terraform Tutorial: Automate Terraform Cloud Workflows

Our ecosystem continues to grow: we added 13 new verified providers within the last three months.

Cisco DCNM, Dynatrace, and Nutanix KPS Among the New Additions to HashiCorp’s Verified Provider Ecosystem

Watch these highlighted talks from our 2021 HashiTalks community event. Our first recap features talks on HashiCorp Boundary, Packer, Vagrant, and Waypoint.

HashiTalks 2021 Highlights: Boundary, Packer, Vagrant, and Waypoint

See how HashiCorp Terraform and Packer can leverage of Microsoft Azure’s Managed Identities.

Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 1

HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Business tier provides self-hosted agents which allow customers to decide where they want to run their Terraform operations. 

An Introduction to Terraform Cloud Agents

Learn to manage your provider versions with this new tutorial on HashiCorp Learn. 

New Terraform Tutorial: Lock and Upgrade Provider Versions

Learn testing strategies for HashiCorp Terraform modules and configuration, and learn how to run tests against infrastructure.

Testing HashiCorp Terraform

HashiCorp Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) is now in beta. CTS enables operations to achieve Network Infrastructure Automation leveraging Terraform’s robust provider ecosystem.

Consul-Terraform-Sync Beta Release Now Available

Read our recap of the recent updates to HCS on Azure and the latest integrations between Azure services and HashiCorp Consul, Terraform, and Vault.

HashiCorp Highlights for Microsoft Ignite

The Packer team is excited to announce the release of the Packer Plugin SDK, a standalone Go module for developing Packer plugins.

Announcing the HashiCorp Packer Plugin SDK

Learn the equivalent terminologies, comparisons, and differentiations between HashiCorp Nomad and Kubernetes.

A Kubernetes User's Guide to HashiCorp Nomad

The HashiCorp Terraform Strategic Integrations team is pleased to announce the General Availability of the HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes. 

Announcing General Availability of the HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes 

See the recovery steps to protect your data and secrets during an extended outage using Kubernetes and HashiCorp Consul. 

Disaster Recovery for HashiCorp Consul on Kubernetes

HashiCorp Boundary 0.1.5: Target-Aware Workers and More

This new tutorial collection uses a case study about a fictional company to illustrate a  monolith to microservices migration with HashiCorp Consul and Kubernetes.

New Learn Tutorials: Migrating to Microservices with Consul on Kubernetes

We have developed a baseline SELinux policy for securing Vault on Red Hat-based Linux Distributions

Hardening HashiCorp Vault with SELinux

Discover how the Kubernetes and Kubernetes-alpha providers for HashiCorp Terraform allow users to specify whether they must meet certain conditions before they successfully apply a resource, giving users more control over their Kubernetes infrastructure.

Wait Conditions in the Kubernetes Provider for HashiCorp Terraform 

Check out the latest updates and new additions to our collection of tutorials for deploying Vault on Kubernetes. 

Updates to the HashiCorp Learn's Vault-Kubernetes Collection

Seamless application integration with a fully functional RBAC system.

Gating Access to Kubernetes API & Workloads with HashiCorp Boundary

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Consul is moving into general availability. In this blog, we’ll show users how they can get started consuming Consul as a managed offering in AWS. 

First Steps with HCP Consul on AWS

HCP Consul is now generally available on AWS. HCP Consul is a fully managed service mesh to discover and securely connect any service.

Announcing HCP Consul General Availability

Learn how to build observability as code infrastructure automation using New Relic, Terraform Cloud, and Google’s 4 Golden Signals of SRE.

Building Alerts for Observability’s 4 Golden Signals with Terraform Cloud and New Relic

Version 2.0 of the Kubernetes and Helm providers includes a more declarative authentication flow, alignment of resource behaviors and attributes with upstream APIs, normalized wait conditions across several resources, and removes support for Helm v2.

Announcing Version 2.0 of the Kubernetes and Helm Providers for HashiCorp Terraform 

Learn about the pros and cons of using mono repositories and multi repositories along with the most logical use case for each.

Terraform Mono Repo vs. Multi Repo: The Great Debate

Sentinel 0.17 provides the ability to return non-boolean data within a policy. See examples of how to use this new functionality to improve compliance reporting capabilities.

Using Rich Return Types and Map Expressions in Sentinel 0.17

Learn how to output data about your infrastructure. 

New Terraform Tutorial: Terraform Outputs

Kubernetes Initializer built by Ambassador Labs provides a new experience for simplifying the deployment of Ambassador and Consul in a Sandbox Kubernetes environment. 

Getting Started with Ambassador and Consul Using Kubernetes Initializer

CDK for Terraform now supports Java and C# and has new collaboration features on Terraform Cloud.

Announcing CDK for Terraform 0.1

Customers can now run Terraform Enterprise across two application nodes for increased reliability and scale. 

Announcing Terraform Enterprise Active/Active Architecture General Availability

HashiCorp Vault is now available on HashiCorp Cloud Platform in public beta.

Announcing HCP Vault Public Beta

The cryptography and key management protecting HashiCorp Vault secrets is designed to stand up to concerted attacks from well-resourced, skilled adversaries. Here's how it works.

When the Levee Breaks: Protecting Vault Against Advanced Adversaries and Internal Threats

Levant enhances HashiCorp Nomad with reusable, automated, and operator-friendly deployments.

Levant is Now a HashiCorp-Supported Project

A new tutorial on HashiCorp Learn shows how to protect sensitive data with Terraform.

New Terraform Tutorial: Sensitive Input Variables

A new Couchbase secrets engine is available for HashiCorp Vault.

Announcing the Couchbase Secrets Engine

In the last three months we've added 9 Terraform providers to our list of verified integrations in the Terraform Registry. Here's a look at each of them. 

Sumo Logic and Databricks Among 9 Newly Verified Terraform Providers

HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure now offers federation between HCS datacenters as a preview feature.

Introducing Federation on HashiCorp Consul Service

Two AWS quick start guides for HashiCorp Vault on EKS and EC2 are now updated for compatibility with Vault 1.6.

HashiCorp and AWS Launch Quick Start Guides for Vault 1.6 on Amazon EKS and EC2

Get 7 best practices for preventing configuration drift in enterprise scale IT operations.

Change Management At Scale: How Terraform Helps End Out-of-Band Anti-Patterns

Configuration syncing, templating, and path variables come to Waypoint to enable you to better build, deploy, and release applications across any platform.

Announcing HashiCorp Waypoint 0.2.0

Learn how to secure your Consul agents and access to data with Vault integrations. We also have new Consul 1.9 tutorials.

New Learn Tutorials: Secure Consul with Vault's Secret Engines

Nomad 1.0, released in GA today, is a major milestone for the Nomad team and HashiCorp.

Announcing General Availability of HashiCorp Nomad 1.0

HashiCorp Nomad scheduled 2,000,000 Docker containers on 6,100 hosts in 10 AWS regions in 22 minutes.

HashiCorp Nomad Meets the 2 Million Container Challenge

New step-by-step tutorials to demonstrate the use of Vault C# client library to leverage HashiCorp Vault in your .NET applications.

Use HashiCorp Vault C# Client with .NET Core

Terraform 0.14 features a new concise diff renderer, provider dependency lockfile, and more.

Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 0.14 General Availability 

Announcing General Availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.9

The Terraform AWS provider now supports Code Signing for AWS Lambda, which involves digitally signing code artifacts and verifying at deployment. 

Announcing Support for Code Signing for AWS Lambda in the Terraform AWS Provider

Get better observability and debuggability in your Nomad clusters with the new Event Stream feature in Nomad 1.0.

Building on Top of HashiCorp Nomad’s Event Stream

Learn how to apply distributed tracing by instrumenting it in your code directly or leveraging the observability hooks of Consul Service Mesh. Both examples use Datadog.

Leveling up Your Service Mesh with Observability and Distributed Tracing for Consul

The Terraform AWS provider has added support for the newly released AWS Network Firewall service.

Announcing Support for AWS Network Firewall in the Terraform AWS Provider

While Kubernetes is leading the orchestration market, this blog explains why a growing number of customers choose Nomad as an alternative or use each tool where most appropriate. 

Nomad, Kubernetes, and a Pragmatic Look at Choosing Orchestrators

New dependency lock files in Terraform 0.14 help duplicate previous runs so they use exactly the same provider versions.

Terraform 0.14 Introduces a Dependency Lock File for Providers

Consul 1.9 now provides OpenShift support for Kubernetes deployments with a secure-by-default configuration.

Introducing OpenShift Support for HashiCorp Consul on Kubernetes 

Consul 1.9 adds Custom Resource Definition support, allowing users to interact with Consul using a more Kubernetes-native experience.

Custom Resource Definitions for HashiCorp Consul on Kubernetes 

In preparation for KubeCon 2020, this blog explores how features in Consul 1.9 help enhance the experience of running Consul on Kubernetes. 

KubeCon 2020: HashiCorp Consul Further Expands Kubernetes Support

With the release of HashiCorp Nomad 1.0, Nomad Enterprise now includes Dynamic Application Sizing, an expansion of Nomad's existing Autoscaler capabilities.

HashiCorp Nomad Dynamic Application Sizing

New step-by-step tutorials demonstrate the features introduced in Vault 1.6. 

Vault Learning Resources: Vault 1.6 Release Highlights

This release features Integrated Storage enhancements, a new Key Management Secrets Engine, Transform Secrets Engine updates, and more.

Announcing HashiCorp Vault 1.6

Terraform 0.14 allows users to define values as “sensitive,” making it easier to redact sensitive information in Terraform workflows.

Terraform 0.14 Adds the Ability to Redact Sensitive Values in Console Output

Take a brief tour of Nomad 1.0’s new zero-configuration topology visualization tool.