10 years of HashiConf: A bold leap into AI-powered infrastructure

HashiConf 2025 showcased how HashiCorp is reshaping hybrid infrastructure and security operations to prepare for the AI-driven future. Here are the biggest moments, announcements, and takeaways from our tenth global cloud conference.

Sep 26, 2025

This year was our tenth anniversary of HashiConf, bringing together hundreds of practitioners, platform teams, and decision-makers to explore what’s next for cloud automation. Our vision was clear: the future of infrastructure is automated, intelligent, and secured by default. At the center of this vision is The Infrastructure Cloud, our control plane for managing the full lifecycle of infrastructure and security.

This was also our first HashiConf as a part of the IBM family, and with our combined portfolios, we’re unlocking new, better-together solutions for the hybrid cloud, AI-driven future. Our shared foundation is primed to help organizations embed AI-ready automation across infrastructure and security, delivering smarter, safer operations at scale.

Let’s recap our key announcements, customer success stories, and plans for the AI-driven future of infrastructure.

»Customer and community stories

Attendees shared some of their favorite moments from the conference across social media this week. Here are a few of the things they shared:

Ned Bellavance: Need a summary of HashiConf in two images? Here you go.
Alain Chiasson: Excellent presentation from the HashiConf business track by Michael Wood - securing and tracking AI agent workflows. (Link)
Sarbjeet Johal: “When you buy a car, you don’t get to choose if you want a seatbelt or not” - said Suneer during his session at #HashiConf 2025 in San Francisco today. More about the World Bank case study here

If you didn't attend in person to catch all of our customer use case sessions, subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch these customer session recordings when they launch and learn how HashiCorp is delivering ROI for customers today:

What would you do with 8,000 extra hours? Turning infrastructure into a strategic advantage at Benchling - Infrastructure powers innovation. How? For Benchling, it was possible through thousands of reclaimed work-hours.
Secrets at scale: GitHub’s 9-year evolution with HashiCorp Vault - GitHub, the VCS that the majority of developers rely on, has built its secrets management around Vault. Hear their near-decade-long story.
Embedding secrets governance into the enterprise through organizational change - Nationwide breaks down its strategy for hardening its Vault environment across the enterprise.
Roadmap to 1000s of golden containers secure by default - Rubrik will share how they used Terraform Enterprise and HCP Packer to scale up to thousands of golden container images and reduce vulnerabilities at scale.
Securing hybrid cloud at scale: A unified path to efficiency, continuity, and control - Geico unified their on-premises and public cloud stacks into one development stack with a common methodology for securing access. Learn about the key outcomes of that migration.

»Building the hybrid cloud operating model

HashiConf 2025 made it clear: As part of IBM, HashiCorp is accelerating its vision to deliver a unified control plane that extends across the hybrid cloud.

Before organizations can fully benefit from AI, they need to have a unified lifecycle management platform that can operationalize it. This means moving to a hybrid cloud operating model that can manage hybrid infrastructure and middleware while combining insights from all of these systems.

The cloud enabled speed and scale, but adoption hasn’t been linear for many organizations — many are still struggling with skills gaps and the complexity of governance. The roadblocks and their solutions are made clear in the 2025 Cloud Complexity Report. Our announcements at HashiConf further our mission to address gaps in organizations’ hybrid cloud operating models.

»New capabilities

At HashiConf, we introduced new capabilities that deliver outcomes across three key pillars of enterprise value — accelerating application delivery, strengthening security and governance, and optimizing cloud operations and ROI.

»Accelerating application delivery

Speed up provisioning and secure development workflows to ship faster, safely.

Terraform Stacks (GA): Pre-built templates for fast, consistent environment delivery
Terraform Actions + Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (Beta): Codify Day 2 workflows for faster infrastructure changes
Boundary RDP credential injection: Simplify secure developer access to Windows systems

»Strengthening security and governance

Build a strong, zero-trust foundation across every environment.

Vault Secrets Operator (VSO) protected secrets (Beta): Secure secrets in Kubernetes by providing secrets directly to pods without persistent storage
Vault + OpenShift SSCSI provider (Red Hat Certified): Mount secrets as ephemeral volumes to eliminate persistent storage and reduce risk in hybrid environments
HCP Vault Radar Jira scanning: Gain full visibility into leaked secrets across Jira

»Optimizing cloud operations and ROI

Unify visibility, cut waste, and automate governance at scale.

Terraform search: Discover modules and reduce infrastructure sprawl
HCP Vault Dedicated secrets inventory reporting: Track secrets, streamline compliance, and demonstrate security impact
Terraform run task for Cloudability governance: Improve cost visibility and budget alignment before deployment to enable proactive decision-making

Read about our full slate of new capabilities in our Day 1 announcement blogs:

»Agentic infrastructure and security

HashiCorp continues to show organizations how to lay the groundwork to operate within the hybrid and multi-cloud world. AI is set to unlock new levels of scale and speed for innovation, but it will also come with a new set of requirements and complexities.

How will users and tool stacks interact with AI models and agents? And how will AI get the contextual data it needs?

»HashiCorp MCP servers

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers act as a bridge between AI agents and existing software delivery tools, allowing operators to use natural language and generative AI to efficiently accomplish their tasks. HashiCorp has already released three MCP servers:

We see MCP servers as a critical new interface layer between trusted automation systems and emerging AI ecosystems, providing auditable interactions between AI agents and enterprise infrastructure, ensuring that automation is based on reliable and context-rich data.

»Project infragraph

While MCP servers provide a human-centric interface to drive platform tools with AI, agents and models still need context about your unique infrastructure to be effective. Generic LLMs don't know anything about your actual environment.

All of our products emit essential data about secrets, identity, access, infrastructure state, and policy compliance. We want to capture and formalize this data in a central place for AI to use. We’re calling the initiative around this new functionality: Project infragraph.

Project infragraph is aimed at helping customers unify infrastructure and security data under a single resource graph. From here, the intention is to enable AI-driven automation and intelligent operations throughout the application value chain.

Project infragraph is a resource graph that provides a source of truth for infrastructure and security data to the HashiCorp Cloud Platform.

AI agents will become immensely valuable when they have a unified resource graph of infrastructure and security data to draw from — rather than small, fragmented silos of data like many enterprises have today. This won’t just include HCP services — in the future, we plan to connect IBM’s broader ecosystem into the resource graph (Ansible, OpenShift, Turbonomic, Apptio, Concert, Cloudability, Orchestrate, Watsonx, etc.), while also providing connectors for CSPs (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and third-party systems.

Project infragraph is a major step toward infrastructure that can observe, reason, and act. By combining trusted automation with real-time infrastructure intelligence, we’re creating the control layer that unlocks the next era of AI-powered operations. Plus, organizations can apply to help shape this functionality by applying to join our private beta, launching later this year.

Read our Day 2 blog for a full in-depth look at our plans for AI-operations, and check out our application for the Project infragraph private beta:

»Must-watch sessions

Here are more highlights to look out for after the conference is over. Keynotes and a selection of sessions are available to watch now on our Day 1 and Day 2 live streams. Most sessions will be available on our YouTube channel 2-3 weeks post-conference.

HashiConf Day 1 + Day 2 opening keynotes - Day 2 features Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns
Hybrid cloud, intelligent infrastructure, and the future of AI with IBM and HashiCorp - Learn how to set the foundations for AI with HashiCorp Field CTO Michael Wood.
The intelligent infrastructure cloud: A fireside chat on automation, security, and AI-driven operations - A panel discussion with HashiCorp and IBM luminaries about AI’s future in operations.
Remediate secret sprawl at scale - Learn how to identify exposed credentials with contextual insights, hand off remediation to the right teams, and prevent future leaks.
Making AI work for you: Terraform engineer blueprint - Get actionable templates and skills for writing Terraform code with AI assistants.

»What’s next?

HashiCorp is building the platform for AI-powered operations and intelligent automation. With our investments in HCP and Project infragraph, we plan to redefine how infrastructure and security are managed across the application lifecycle.

Ready to go deeper? Watch the full keynotes and breakout sessions on demand, or explore the latest updates in our product announcement blogs:

Thanks to all our sponsors, speakers, and attendees for making HashiConf 2025 a success. We hope to see you next year at HashiConf 2026 in Atlanta!