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Today at HashiConf, we are excited to announce a host of important new products, features, and updates spanning our entire product line. The new products and features focus on enhancing workflow automation for developers and lifecycle management for cloud platform teams across both infrastructure and security. Dealing with cloud infrastructure and addressing related security challenges highlights two key areas of concern for many organizations: making the cloud easily accessible to developers — in a secure, cost-effective, and efficient way. Our HashiConf announcements focus on infrastructure and security concerns, with an ongoing mission of delivering developer-driven workflows that are well integrated with the standardized, shared services enabled by platform teams... View the full article

HCP Packer is a powerful tool for tracking, governing, and managing image artifacts across multi-cloud environments. Today at HashiConf, we are introducing two new features for HCP Packer: project-level webhooks and streamlined run task reviews. Project-level webhooks allow users to notify external systems about specific HCP Packer events using automation. Streamlined run task reviews provide meaningful context on run task evaluations for the HCP Packer run task on HashiCorp Terraform Cloud, building on the new functionality released in September. These two additions help organizations improve the efficiency and security of image-related workflows across their multi-cloud infrastructure estate... View the full article

Today at HashiConf, we are pleased to announce the alpha program for HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Vault Radar, HCP Vault Secrets general availability, secrets sync beta for Vault Enterprise, and HashiCorp Vault 1.15. These new capabilities help organizations secure their applications and services as they leverage a cloud operating model to power their shift to the cloud. Enabling a cloud operating model helps organizations cut costs, reduce risks, and increase the speed at which developers build and deploy secure applications. The new capabilities boost Vault’s focus on helping organizations use identity to achieve their security goals by: Centrally managing and enforcing access to secrets and systems based on trusted sources of application and user identity. Eliminating credential sprawl by identifying static secrets hardcoded throughout complex systems and tooling across your entire cloud estate. Reducing manual overhead and risk associated with managing access to infrastructure resources like SSH, VPNs, as well as applications and services. Automatically implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms to ensure only authorized services can communicate with one another. View the full article

Today at HashiConf, we are excited to announce new capabilities for HashiCorp Terraform and Terraform Cloud to improve developer velocity, code quality, and infrastructure cost management. The new Terraform and Terraform Cloud announcements include the following: Terraform test framework (GA) helps produce higher-quality modules Test-integrated module publishing (beta) streamlines the testing and publishing process Generated module tests (beta) help module authors get started in seconds Enhanced editor validation in Visual Studio Code (GA) makes it easier to find and resolve errors Stacks (private preview) simplifies infrastructure provisioning and management at scale Ephemeral workspaces (GA) help optimize infrastructure spend View the full article

At HashiConf Global in October of 2022, HashiCorp announced the public beta of Waypoint on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), with the goal of helping to standardize application delivery across platforms. Now, we’re excited to share our updated vision for HCP Waypoint to empower platform teams to define golden patterns and workflows for developers to manage applications at scale. Along with the new vision, we are announcing a pair of new features for HCP Waypoint today at HashiConf 2023. Designed to help platform teams abstract and share standardized workflows with developers, without making them worry about the infrastructure details, the new features include: Templates: Enables enterprise platform teams to abstract and standardize application scaffolding Add-ons: Helps define application dependencies, such as infrastructure resources, using HashiCorp Terraform, and makes them available to application developers as dependencies View the full article

Today at HashiConf, we are introducing a number of significant enhancements for HashiCorp Consul, our service networking solution that helps users discover and securely connect any application. We're also formally introducing HCP Consul Central, previously known as the management plane for HCP Consul. These new capabilities help organizations enhance workflow management, increase reliability and scale, and bolster security for operators as they leverage a cloud operating model for service networking. Some of the notable updates include: Multi-port support (beta): a new, simplified way to onboard modern distributed applications that require different ports for various traffic types for intricate client-server communication Locality-aware service mesh routing within a Consul datacenter: optimizes traffic routing within datacenters, prioritizing local instances for lower latency and reduced costs. Sameness groups (GA): simplifies multi-cluster operations, enhancing service reliability for enterprises. HCP Consul Central: introduces observability features for HashiCorp-managed and linked self-managed clusters, enhancing cluster health monitoring. Additionally, a global API simplifies integration with HCP Consul Central, allowing platform operators to streamline workflows and access cluster details. View the full article

In this blog article, I’ll take you through my rollercoaster journey of being a HashiConf Emcee, from attending the last in-person EU conference as a practitioner, to joining HashiCorp as an Employee and, co-hosting the first digital HashiConf. If HashiConf has taught me anything about myself, it’s that I am a wind-up merchant, when hungry, my stomach makes really rhythmic sounds and I am a serial burper. My burps come with full bass but I’ll get to those stories shortly... We invite you to join us at our next HashiConf Digital, October 12-15, 2020 (PDT timezone). Registration is free to attend. Real-time product workshops are also available, and will require a nominal fee to reserve your seat. Register here. View the full article

It’s been a busy year for the HashiCorp Nomad team with releases packed full of some of our most requested features. In the first post of this two-part recap, I’ll reflect on the announcements and talks from HashiConf Digital June. In the second part, I’ll review some key features in Nomad 0.12 and share our team’s must-see highlights to prepare you for HashiConf Digital this upcoming October! ... Register now at hashiconf.com/digital-october! View the full article

A great number of systems exist in what are called “airgapped environments,” and the industries that utilize them span public sector (government and military), finance, energy, and more. Airgapped environments are networks that are isolated from other networks, usually both physically and logically. That means no internet. No outside connectivity... View the full article

HashiConf is our annual gathering of practitioners, ranging from open-source users to enterprise customers and partners. In a typical year, we would bring together hundreds of practitioners in Amsterdam (NL) to enjoy the European edition of HashiConf. Acknowledging the situation at hand, our experiential team transformed HashiConf to HashiConf Digital. In removing the need to travel to a physical location, HashiConf became more accessible. We welcomed more than 6500 attendees over three days, with sold-out workshops across the board and lots of great conversations as part of the panels, sessions, and side-events... As we gear up for HashiConf Digital US, running from October 12 through October 15, I invite you to (re-)experience the sessions from June. View the full article