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Why are enterprises and practitioners alike consuming more and more cloud services? This answer from the 2021 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey sums it up well: “Cloud services offer better ROI than running it ourselves.” That sentiment is fueling demand for cloud services and it’s a big reason why we featured so many new developments for the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) at HashiConf Europe this week. This blog post highlights some of HCP’s newest enhancements, including new beta services for HCP Boundary, HCP Waypoint, and HCP Consul on Microsoft Azure. It also summarizes new features for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud, like Drift Detection and Run Tasks. View the full article

We are excited to announce Drift Detection for Terraform Cloud, now in public beta for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Business. Drift Detection provides continuous checks against infrastructure state to detect and notify when there are changes. This new feature continues to evolve the capabilities in HashiCorp Terraform to provide operators with continuous visibility into the state of their multi-cloud infrastructure. Drift Detection follows the announcements of Terraform 1.2 and Terraform Run Tasks, which are additional capabilities that increase efficiency while reducing risk related to security, compliance, and operational consistency. The new capabilities expand Terraform’s support for “Day 2” operations for cloud infrastructure. As organizations migrate to the cloud, they need infrastructure automation to efficiently provision and manage their cloud resources. Typically, that consists of three distinct phases: Adopting and establishing a provisioning workflow, standardizing the workflow, and operating and optimizing at scale across multi-cloud environments as well as private datacenters. Infrastructure as code — along with proper guardrails — are essential to this process. Terraform helps organizations with infrastructure automation and provides capabilities across all three of these phases... View the full article

‘Drift’ is a given in a dynamic software system where code gets outdated the minute it is released. This is true of application code, and in systems where infrastructure is managed as code as well. Drift is a problem for builders and maintainers of these systems as it causes incompatibility issues, brings unpredictability, and makes systems unreliable. Reducing configuration drift is a top priority for system architects and SREs alike. In this post, we look at why drift detection is key to modern operations, and how GitOps enables it using a new breed of tooling and approaches... View the full article