Learn how even non-technical operators can use HashiCorp Terraform Cloud to deploy Azure resources based on Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) templates. 

Industrialized Workflows - Using Microsoft CAF Patterns and Terraform

HCP Consul on Microsoft Azure is now generally available and capable of supporting production workloads running on Azure. Get started today with a secure, resilient service mesh for connecting applications running in Azure. 

HCP Consul on Azure is Now Generally Available

Synchronize HCP Consul services as backend address pools for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway using Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS).

Configuring Azure Application Gateway with Consul-Terraform-Sync

The new HashiCorp Terraform Azure Stack provider 1.0 includes several provider behavior improvements, 19 new resources, and supports a new service for Key Vault. 

Announcing Azure Stack Hub Provider 1.0

HashiCorp has been chosen as the 2022 Microsoft US (MSUS) Partner Award winner OSS on Azure and a 2022 Microsoft OSS on Azure Partner of the Year Award finalist.

HashiCorp Wins Microsoft Azure OSS US Partner of the Year for 2022

HCP Consul is becoming generally available on Azure, Consul API Gateway version 0.3 is going GA, and Consul 1.13 is due later this year.

HCP Consul on Azure to go GA, Plus More Consul News

AzureRM 3.0 brings significant parity between the Azure provider for Terraform and Azure services currently available. Review the breaking changes as you prepare to upgrade.

Terraform AzureRM 3.0 Brings Enhanced Azure Function Support

Learn how to achieve machine authentication to HashiCorp Vault with the Azure auth method using Microsoft Azure managed identity — and set it up with Terraform.

Integrating Azure AD Identity with HashiCorp Vault — Part 3: Azure Managed Identity Auth via Azure Auth Method

Learn how to configure HashiCorp Vault’s OIDC auth method to use Azure as an identity provider.

Integrating Azure AD Identity with HashiCorp Vault — Part 2: Vault OIDC Auth Method

Learn how to achieve user authentication to HashiCorp Vault with OIDC using Microsoft Azure AD as a central identity provider.

Integrating Azure AD Identity with HashiCorp Vault — Part 1: Azure Application Auth via OIDC

Find providers in HashiCorp Terraform Cloud to help quickly spin up Kubernetes containers in Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service.

Build a Quick AKS Cluster the Easy Way with Terraform Cloud

Learn about the enterprise scale and Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)  Terraform modules for Azure adoption, and get a demo of the CAF module.

Go Big or Go Small? Building in Azure CAF with Terraform Cloud

Learn how Vault can help you build zero trust security on Microsoft Azure with five common use cases and five best practices.

HashiCorp Vault Use Cases and Best Practices on Azure

Terraform AzureAD provider Version 2.0 exclusively uses the Microsoft Graph API and has numerous schema and behavioral changes to align with the new API.

Announcing Terraform AzureAD Provider 2.0

HashiCorp Consul and Nomad use Azure managed identities  to authenticate against Azure in order to read tags and manage service principal information.

Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 3

Secrets management with HashiCorp Vault can use Microsoft Azure managed identities to ease the operational burden of Vault cluster availability: Part 2 in a series.

Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 2

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

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

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

Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 1

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

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

Introducing Federation on HashiCorp Consul Service

HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure can be launched directly from the Azure Portal, but you can also manage HCS using Terraform Cloud. 

Managing HCS with Terraform Cloud

We are pleased to announce the availability of the HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure Production tier. The new offering enables a user to deploy production grade Consul clusters directly from the Microsoft Azure portal.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure Production Tier

We are pleased to announce that HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure is now generally available. HCS on Azure enables a team to provision HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters directly through the Microsoft Azure portal. HCS on Azure clusters are preconfigured for production workloads, enabling a team to easily leverage Consul to secure the application networks within their Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or VM-based environments while offloading the operations to HashiCorp.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure General Availability

This demo explores how to use the Terraform Foundational Policies Library to apply pre-written policies, in accordance with the Center for Internet Security benchmarks, on a HashiCorp configuration for Microsoft Azure.

Using the Terraform Foundational Policies Library with Microsoft Azure

We are pleased to announce that HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure is now in public beta. HCS on Azure enables a team to provision HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters directly through the Azure Marketplace and easily leverage Consul’s service discovery and service mesh features within their Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or VM-based application environments.

HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure Public Beta

Learn how to migrate application workloads from VMs into Kubernetes by leveraging Consul and its L7 Traffic Management features. By establishing a common service mesh between both runtime platforms, we enable the ability to take a policy0driven approach to security and application communications.

Migrating Application Traffic between VMs and Kubernetes with HCS on Azure

In our previous blog we showed how to get started with deploying HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure and joining it to an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. In the video above, we show how we can take Virtual Machines hosted in Microsoft Azure and bring them into the same Consul service mesh that our AKS cluster joined previously. This configuration currently requires connectivity between the Consul client nodes in the AKS and the Virtual Machine networks.

Exploring HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: Service Mesh with VM Workloads

Are you a HashiCorp tools practitioner? Do you want to help shape the direction of HashiCorp Consul running in public cloud? HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure is now available!

Introduction to HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure with AKS

Along with our partner Microsoft we are proud to announce the release of version 2.0.0 of the Terraform AzureRM Provider.

Announcing HashiCorp Terraform  AzureRM 2.0

Today we're pleased to announce Azure DevOps Services support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud and HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise. This support includes the ability to link your Terraform Cloud and Enterprise workspaces to Azure DevOps-backed VCS repositories.

Announcing HashiCorp Terraform Cloud and Enterprise Support for Azure DevOps 

We are pleased to announce the new HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure, which is now in private beta. HCS on Azure enables Microsoft Azure customers to natively provision HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters in any Azure region directly through the Azure Marketplace.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure

Learn to use features of Vault 1.1 including agent caching, replication, auto-unseal, and Kubernetes integration.

Vault Learning Resources: 1.1, Caching, Kubernetes, Unseal, Azure, Replication

Announcing the new HashiCorp Terraform Provider for Azure Stack. Azure Stack enables organizations to extend the capabilities of Azure to their private, on-premise environments.

HashiCorp Terraform Provider for Azure Stack

We are going to take a look at how we can create a Kubernetes cluster in Azure using the azurerm_kubernetes_cluster resource.

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with AKS and Terraform

Now available, the new Azure Terraform Resource Provider makes it easier for Azure users to provision third party services in the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) using Terraform Providers.

Introducing the Azure Terraform Resource Provider

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.

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

We're announcing the immediate deprecation of the Terraform provider for Azure ASM (Azure Service Management) in favor of the newer Azure Resource Manager (ARM) provider. The Azure ARM provider will be renamed to "Azure".

 Deprecating the Microsoft Azure (legacy ASM) Terraform Provider

HashiCorp announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to deepen support for the provisioning of Microsoft Azure cloud services with HashiCorp Terraform.

HashiCorp Extends Microsoft Collaboration to Help Terraform Users Adopt Azure

We are excited to announce Azure Resource Manager (ARM) support for HashiCorp’s core infrastructure configuration and provisioning tools, Packer and Terraform. Now all of HashiCorp's open source tools - Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault, Otto - support best practices for application delivery on Microsoft Azure.

HashiCorp tools focus on workflows, not technologies. Users of our tools can apply the same workflow for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, application maintenance, and security across all their infrastructure — both on-premises and in the cloud. As a result, enterprises save time on infrastructure management so they can commit more resources towards solving business-critical needs.

Read on to learn more about the HashiCorp workflow for infrastructure automation on Microsoft Azure.

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