Product news, tutorials, integrations, and deep dives.

 HCP Packer is a new cloud service designed to bridge the gap between image creation and deployment with image-management workflows. The service will be available for beta testing in the coming months.

Announcing HCP Packer

Get helpful resources on a recent change to product license deployments and learn how to navigate this change.

Navigating the New HashiCorp Enterprise License Deployment Process

The CDK for Terraform 0.5 introduces code generation from HCL and a new cdktf watch workflow for serverless workloads.

Announcing CDK for Terraform 0.5

Vault 1.8 offers a new Vault Diagnose command, Key Management secrets engine AWS GA support, updates to Integrated Storage Autopilot, and more.

Announcing HashiCorp Vault 1.8

Configure Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes with transparent proxy on HashiCorp Consul service mesh to manage traffic to and between your Kubernetes services.

Using HashiCorp Consul with Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes

See how content moderation service Chatsight uses HashiCorp Nomad and Consul to speed deployment and maximize uptime.

Building an Event-Based HA Architecture with Nomad and Consul

Two approaches to injecting variability into your Nomad batch job template without having to modify the template in the future.

Running Duplicate Batch Jobs in HashiCorp Nomad

Here’s how to keep track of your Apache Camel services running throughout a deployment, and enable them to communicate with one another in a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment. 

Herding (Apache) Camels with HashiCorp Consul

 Follow our new tutorial to build your summer playlist with Terraform using a community-authored Spotify provider. Hear from the author and share your playlist for a chance to win a free HashiCorp T-shirt. 

Build Your Summer Spotify Playlist with Terraform

Learn how to build scalable, role-based SSH access with SSH certificates and HashiCorp Vault.

Managing SSH Access at Scale with HashiCorp Vault

Consul 1.10 can transparently intercept and redirect traffic to sidecar proxies in the service mesh to allow applications to be deployed without modification.

Transparent Proxy on Consul Service Mesh 

HashiCorp Boundary 0.4.0 and Boundary Desktop 1.2.0 includes features supporting brokering of HashiCorp Vault secrets for Boundary targets to end-users, enhanced session cleanup, and foundational features for event logging.

Announcing HashiCorp Boundary 0.4

The HashiCorp Vault Helm chart has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Certification to help OpenShift users more readily deploy secrets management on Kubernetes.

HashiCorp Vault Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Helm Certification

Learn how to build an automated HashiCorp Vault onboarding system with Terraform using sensible naming standards, ACL policy templates, pre-created application entities, and workflows driven by VCS and CI/CD.

Onboarding Applications to Vault Using Terraform: A Practical Guide

HashiConf Europe speakers from Starbucks and Roblox share how they leverage HashiCorp Vault, Consul, and Boundary to create a zero trust security model.

5 Zero Trust Security Takeaways From HashiConf Europe

Learn how to provision a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and prepare it for application deployment using TypeScript via CDK for Terraform.

GKE Cluster Setup with CDK for Terraform

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

Announcing Consul 1.10 GA

A new Terraform provider allows you to manage users, groups, and domains in your Google Workspace (formerly G Suite).

Announcing the Google Workspace Provider for HashiCorp Terraform Tech Preview

CTS 0.2 includes Task Run Conditions, Terraform 0.15 Support, and more.

Announcing General Availability of Consul-Terraform-Sync 0.2

Watch all 30+ videos HashiConf Europe 2021 with these on-demand videos of all the keynotes, sessions, and customer presentations.

HashiConf Europe 2021 Recap and Videos

We asked users how they are using HashiCorp Consul, here’s what they told us.

Survey Results:  How Do You Connect with Consul?

Get a walkthrough of the code and workflow for setting up NIA with Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) and A10 ADC.

How to Build Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) with HashiCorp Terraform, Consul, and A10 ADC

The latest release of HashiCorp Boundary includes managed groups and OIDC configuration improvements, while Boundary Desktop is now available on Windows.

Announcing HashiCorp Boundary 0.3

In order to support its growing ecosystem and community as we move toward the 3.0 release, we are making changes to Vagrant that will maintain its Ruby-based features while being ported to Go.

Toward Vagrant 3.0

 The HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) now has expanded capabilities for networking, single sign-on, and more. HCP will also support new configurations of HashiCorp Consul and HashiCorp Vault in the coming months.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform Adds Transit Gateway, Okta Support, New Packages

Terraform 1.0 — now generally available — marks a major milestone for interoperability, ease of upgrades, and maintenance for your automation workflows. 

Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 1.0 General Availability

Announcing several improvements to HashiCorp Terraform Cloud, focusing on visibility and extensibility. 

Terraform Cloud Updates Improve Workflow Visibility

Waypoint 0.4 adds significant features, including mutable deployments and platform health reporting, among others.

Announcing HashiCorp Waypoint 0.4

From working with providers, to managing resources, to working with Terraform on AWS, we have a lot of new hands-on Terraform exercises to try.

New Terraform Tutorials on HashiCorp Learn

The Terraform AWS provider now supports ECS Anywhere, a new capability in Amazon ECS that supports running and managing container-based applications on customers’ on-premises servers.

Announcing Support for Amazon ECS Anywhere in the Terraform AWS Provider

The redesigned interface for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud brings clarity to how your resources, state, and infrastructure operations are represented during a Terraform run.

New Apply User Interface for Terraform Cloud

The Cloud Development Kit for Terraform 0.4 introduces experimental Go language support, asset construct, and Terraform Cloud integration.

Announcing CDK for Terraform 0.4

AWS users may now select Consul as their service mesh for ECS deployments.

Announcing Tech Preview of Consul Service Mesh for Amazon ECS

Version 1.5.0 of the Terraform AzureAD provider lets you manage your Azure Active Directory resources using the Microsoft Graph API.

Terraform AzureAD Provider Now Supports Microsoft Graph

Waypoint runners perform builds, deployments, poll for Git repository changes, and allow deployments for any platform.

Using Waypoint Runners To Enable GitOps Workflows

Explore how Boundary provides secure access to hosts and services based on user identity with new tutorials on HashiCorp Learn.

Learn Secure Access Management with Boundary

The Terraform AWS provider now supports predictive scaling policy, a machine learning based scaling mechanism of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.

Announcing Support for Predictive Scaling Policy in the Terraform AWS Provider

The Terraform AWS provider now supports AWS AppRunner, a purpose-built container application service that enables customers to build and run containerized web applications in just a few clicks.

Announcing Launch Day Support for AWS App Runner in the Terraform AWS Provider

Nomad 1.1 is now generally available. This release delivers more than 10 new features to enable more flexible scheduling and a simplified operator experience.

Announcing General Availability of HashiCorp Nomad 1.1

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

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

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

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.