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

HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent 2020

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

Announcing the 2020 HashiCorp Partner Network SI & Reseller Award winners 

Announcing the 2020 HashiCorp SI & Reseller Partner Network Winners 

With official, verified, and community providers now available in the Terraform Registry, we wanted to share 11 verified integrations that have been big additions.

Announcing 11 Verified Providers for Terraform

Learn about a Vault SlackBot made by DigitalOnUs.

Vault AIDE: A ChatOps Bot for HashiCorp Vault

As more organizations make the shift from monolithic infrastructure to microservice-based architectures, there remain some applications which cannot be added to a service mesh, either because of technology or regulatory constraints (e.g. managed database services). However, services running inside the mesh require a secure and intelligent way to communicate with these external services. Consul and BIG-IP provide organizations an end-to-end solution to achieve this communication

F5 BIG-IP Terminating Gateway Egress with Consul 

We are excited to announce that HashiCorp Vault is now validated on Google Cloud Platform’s Confidential Computing service. Confidential Computing allows HashiCorp Vault to operate in environments with resilient host based security that adds additional protection through the use of memory encryption.

Using HashiCorp Vault with Google Confidential Computing

Through the ServiceNow App Store, IT users can take advantage of Terraform Cloud to deploy any application on any infrastructure - be it in an enterprise datacenter, public cloud or a hybrid environment.

HashiCorp Terraform Cloud ServiceNow App Generally Available

Today, we are happy to announce that the HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise integration for ServiceNow Service Catalog supports the full infrastructure lifecycle from creation to deletion.

Announcing Delete Capability in ServiceNow Integration for Terraform Enterprise

Today we are pleased to announce the re-launching of the HashiCorp Consul on AWS Quick Start Guide. AWS Quick Start guides are built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help users deploy technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability. Read this blog to learn more about the guide and the new features that it now contains.

HashiCorp and AWS Re-Launch Consul Quick Start Guide

This blog is a guest post by Ranga Rao explaining how to configure the new Cisco ACI provider.

Using Terraform to Provision Cisco ACI

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

This blog highlights some of the capabilities that HashiCorp Consul can bring to Kubernetes environments and some of the key integrations from our ecosystem that can be deployed in conjunction with Consul.

Exploring the HashiCorp Consul Ecosystem for Kubernetes

Distributed tracing is a capability offered by HashiCorp Consul Service Mesh that enables greater observability over microservice environment. Read this blog for an overview of tracing and

Enabling Distributed Tracing with HashiCorp Consul

Today, HashiCorp joined the  launching a new integration for the AppDynamic CNS Platform and HashiCorp Consul. Read this blog to learn more about the integration and what it means for our customers.

Announcing New HashiCorp Consul Integration for AppDynamics

Consul Enterprise supports VMware's new open source specification to facilitate service mesh federation between multiple mesh technologies. Read the blog to learn more.

HashiCorp Consul Enterprise Supports VMware NSX Service Mesh Federation

HashiCorp is pleased to announce an extension of the multi-year collaboration agreement signed with Microsoft in 2017. This blog explains some of the details and results from the last agreement.

HashiCorp and Microsoft Extend Multi-year Collaboration Agreement

Today at HashiConf EU we are announcing the HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise integration for ServiceNow Service Catalog.

Announcing ServiceNow Integration for Terraform Enterprise

HashiCorp will be a sponsor at the AWS re:Inforce conference in Boston happening June 25-26, 2019. In this blog, we explore how HashiCorp Vault helps secure AWS environments using principles from the Cloud Operating Model.

Ahead of re:Inforce: Security in the Cloud Operating Model with AWS and HashiCorp

Today at KubeCon EU in Barcelona, Microsoft introduced a new specification the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) for implementing service mesh providers into Kubernetes environments. This blog explains how Consul fits into this new specification and how it can be used for Kubernetes environments.

HashiCorp Consul supports Microsoft’s new Service Mesh Interface

Ambassador API Gateway announced native support for HashiCorp Consul service mesh. With this support, engineers can use Ambassador’s declarative configuration to expose any Consul service to the Internet. Together, Ambassador and Consul provide a complete solution for traffic management including both north-south and east-west traffic in today’s hybrid cloud, spanning Kubernetes, virtual machines (VMs), and bare metal infrastructure.

Ambassador API Gateway Announces Native Support for Consul Service Mesh

We are pleased to announce that Linode, SkyTap, UCloud, and Hedvig providers are now available for HashiCorp Terraform. This blog will detail the new providers and include links to additional resources.

New Terraform Providers: Linode, SkyTap, UCloud, and Hedvig

Today, HashiCorp announced the formation of a new professional services program for enterprise customers. HashiCorp customers are now able to purchase additional professional services packages as a part of their enterprise agreements. HashiCorp has brought on highly skilled individuals to serve on its “virtual consulting bench” who will deliver these services. The purpose of this blog is to explain why we have decided to start offering professional services and explain more about what the program entails.

Introducing the HashiCorp Professional Services Program

Yesterday AWS announced availability of their new service discovery tool, Cloud Map. AWS user will now have the capability to discover resources and services within AWS environments, conduct health checks, and integrate with other service mesh offerings, like HashiCorp Consul. HashiCorp, an Advanced tier member of the AWS Partner Network, worked closely with AWS engineers and is pleased to announce that HashiCorp Consul will offer launch day support of AWS Cloud Map.

Enabling Service Discovery Across Hybrid Infrastructure Environments using HashiCorp Consul and AWS Cloud Map

This blog recaps the announcements and events happening at the 2018 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.

 HashiCorp at re:Invent: Terraform & Consul launch-day support for multiple new AWS offerings

This guest blog, by Riley Karson of Google Cloud, explores a new enhancement to our Terraform Docs. Users looking for examples of Terraform on Google Cloud can now test out various configurations in Google Cloud Shell with the click of a button.

Kickstart Terraform on GCP with Google Cloud Shell

We are pleased to announce that F5 Networks, Nutanix, Tencent Cloud and Helm providers are now available for HashiCorp Terraform. This blog will detail the new providers and include links to additional resources.

New Terraform Providers: F5 Networks, Nutanix, Tencent Cloud, and Helm

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 are proud to announce two new providers now available for HashiCorp Terraform. This blog will give a more detailed description on the providers and any helpful links that may provide additional insight. For more information on Terraform providers please visit our docs page.

New Terraform Providers: Oracle OCI, Brightbox, RightScale

To highlight the growing support for Terraform and Vault, Microsoft invited HashiCorp to participate in a series of technical videos for IT practitioners. Anubhav Mishra, developer advocate for HashiCorp, and Zachary Deptawa, cloud developer advocate for Microsoft, created four videos to introduce and educate users on how these tools work together and what challenges they address.

Microsoft Publishes Video Series on HashiCorp Terraform and Vault

This guest blog by CEO & Founder of Solo.io, Idit Levine, explains how their new product, Gloo Connect, can help users looking to integrate Consul and Envoy together.

Integrating HashiCorp Consul and Envoy using Gloo Connect

AWS announced general availability of their new Amazon Linux 2 operating system. HashiCorp Terraform offers support for Amazon Linux 2 when provisioning or managing AWS infrastructure.

HashiCorp Terraform Supports Amazon Linux 2

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

This blog announces the latest product integrations available from our Technology Partner Ecosystem for HashiCorp Terraform and Vault.

Partner Product Integrations Announcement: Hetzner Cloud, Flexible Engine, Yubico, and Fortanix

HashiCorp is proud to announce day-zero support for AWS EKS. AWS EKS is a managed service that makes it easier for users to run Kubernetes on AWS across multiple availability zones with less manual configuration. This blog explores how to set up an EKS configuration using Terraform.

Announcing Terraform Support for Kubernetes Service on AWS

One of the most recent releases to the Azure Terraform provider has included the preview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS),  In this post, 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

Today, Centrify is proud to announce the integration of the Centrify Identity Service with HashiCorp Vault for role-based user authentication and access to the Vault.

Introducing Centrify Identity Services for HashiCorp Vault

Announcing a new Terraform provider for creating and managing infrastructure on the VMware NSX-T Platform. This blog details some of the services that are available now with this provider and some helpful tips for getting started.

New Terraform Provider for VMware NSX-T Platform

LogicMonitor is the SaaS-based, performance monitoring platform for complex and distributed IT infrastructure. With out-of-the-box coverage for thousands of technologies, LogicMonitor provides granular visibility into infrastructure and application performance. LogicMonitor’s automated device discovery, preconfigured alert thresholds, and rich customizable dashboards, come together to give IT teams the speed, flexibility, and actionable insights required to succeed in today’s competitive markets.

This blog takes a look at how LogicMonitor utilizes HashiCorp Packer, Terraform, and Consul to quickly detect and rebuild when datacenter outages occur.

LogicMonitor Uses Terraform, Packer & Consul for Disaster Recovery Environments

Announcing a new Terraform provider for creating and managing infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Platform. This blog details some of the services that are available now with this provider and outlines the roadmap for features that will be added at a later date.

New Terraform Provider for Oracle Cloud Platform

New Terraform Providers: Palo Alto Networks, Open Telekom Cloud

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

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

Guest post from Pavel Klushin, Solutions Architect at Spotinst.

Utilizing capacity in the cloud can save a lot of money, but taking advantage of those savings requires a lot of work. Spotinst, is a platform for running and managing elastic cloud compute and enables companies to reduce their compute infrastructure costs by 60-80%. HashiCorp Nomad provides easy-to-use and flexible cluster management and container scheduling. Nomad and Spotinst Elastigroup together allow you to efficiently deploy containerized workloads and easily manage clusters at any scale for a fraction of the cost.

Spotinst and HashiCorp Nomad to Reduce EC2 Costs for Users

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 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

This is a guest post by Rani Osnat, VP Marketing at Aqua Security. Aqua is a HashiCorp technology partner and focuses on securing container-based applications from development to production, on any platform. 
Aqua Security, founded in 2015, focuses on securing applications that are developed and run using virtual containers, e.g. using Docker. We provide automated security controls for the entire lifecycle of containers, starting from development and all the way to protecting container workloads in production. We work with  large enterprises that already use containers or are migrating to containers, and have security and regulatory requirements to ensure their applications are protected and monitored.
We chose to integrate with HashiCorp Vault after learning of a customer need for secrets management in containers. Vault is the leading product for secrets management in the enterprise, is widely used by large enterprises, and is easy to integrate with.

Aqua Security helps enterprises to securely manage secrets in containers with Vault

Continuing the momentum from the HashiCorp Vault and HashiCorp Consul Quick Start Guides (QSG) which have seen tremendous usage, we’ve partnered with the AWS team to build a QSG for HashiCorp Nomad.

Nomad on AWS: Quick Start Guide

This is a guest post by Clément Contini, Cloud System Administrator for cloud.ca. cloud.ca is a HashiCorp technology partner and provides Canadian regional cloud infrastructure for companies who have data sovereignty requirements. cloud.ca works as a standalone IaaS platform, or can be part of a hybrid or multi-cloud solution. 
The cloud.ca team has developed a purpose-built provider for HashiCorp Terraform, making it possible to automate infrastructure deployments on the cloud.ca platform. Terraform is one of the numerous open-source tools for infrastructure management available from HashiCorp. It provides a DevOps-friendly approach to deploying complex IaaS environments, enabling increased agility and flexibility, particularly when it involves re-use of existing deployment architectures. You can download the cloud.ca provider here: https&#x3A;//github.com/cloud-ca/terraform-provider-cloudca.

cloud.ca Develops Custom DevOps-Friendly Provider For Terraform 

We are excited to announce the addition of GitLab as a VCS integration with Terraform Enterprise.  This post will discuss getting started with Terraform Enterprise and the first steps to setting up GitLab for your environment.

Announcing Terraform Enterprise Integration for GitLab

HashiCorp Terraform enables users to define infrastructure as code  to safely and predictably codify, plan, and provision any infrastructure.  Terraform can codify public cloud resources, private cloud resources, as well as service provider resources like DNS and monitoring to provide a consistent workflow for provisioning.
HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise provides integration with version control systems (VCS) to facilitate collaboration on infrastructure as code.  Terraform Enterprise users have been doing version-controlled infrastructure with GitHub and Terraform Enterprise.  We are excited to announce the addition of Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud as a VCS integration with Terraform Enterprise.  This post will discuss getting started with Terraform Enterprise and the first steps to setting up Bitbucket Cloud for your environment.

Announcing Bitbucket Cloud Integration for Terraform Enterprise

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

Terraform is an open source tool for managing infrastructure as code. Earlier I authored a blog post on leveraging version-controlled infrastructure with Terraform, and Terraform continues to push the boundaries on the definition of &amp;quot;infrastructure&amp;quot;. Terraform is able to manage almost anything with an API, including Consul, Nomad, and GitHub. This blog post showcases using Terraform to manage GitHub organizations, repositories, teams, and permissions.

Managing GitHub with Terraform

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

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

We are pleased to announce the release of the official Cloud Foundry HashiCorp Vault Service Broker. This service broker connects to an existing Vault cluster and can be used by multiple tenants within Cloud Foundry to securely store, access, and encrypt using Vault.

Cloud Foundry Vault Service Broker

The following is a guest blog post from Aater Suleman, CEO at Flux7. Flux7 is one of HashiCorp's Premier System Integration partners and have successfully helped deploy dozens of customer environments using the HashiCorp stack.

As a HashiCorp consulting partner, Flux7 helps organizations establish a framework for repeatable deployments of Vault on top of their existing infrastructure or as part of a new infrastructure solution. We began working with HashiCorp Vault two years ago in response to increased requests from Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) who wanted to ensure their company’s cloud migration or greenfield deployment met the organization’s risk, security, and compliance objectives.

Flux7 helps customers securely run applications in the cloud with Vault

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

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 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.

Azure Resource Manager Support for Packer and Terraform

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.