HashiTalks 2021 Highlights: Boundary, Packer, Vagrant, and Waypoint

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Over 10,000 people watched our third annual global HashiTalks livestream — our first HashiTalks livestream that spanned 48 hours instead of the usual 24. Why 48 hours this time? We were so impressed by the extremely high number of quality talk submissions that we decided to expand the number we accepted this year and expand our hours accordingly.

All of the HashiTalks 2021 livestream footage is available on YouTube, but we also made clips for some of the individual talks and have posted them in the HashiCorp Resource Library with full abstracts for each talk along with slides for some. Today we wanted to highlight a few of those talks.

In this first HashiTalks 2021 highlights blog, we’re sharing a handful of talks about our oldest open source tools, HashiCorp Vagrant and Packer, and our newest projects, HashiCorp Boundary and Waypoint, as well as a few product-agnostic talks. Across all of these topics, the community had plenty of great new use cases and demos to share.

More talks will be added to this blog next week.

»Boundary

Deploying Boundary in Azure with Terraform HashiCorp Ambassador Ned Bellavance has built a reference architecture for deploying Boundary on Microsoft Azure for secure session management.

Using Boundary for Identity-Based Multi-Cloud Access Another HashiCorp Ambassador, Jacob Mammoliti, shows how Boundary can be deployed in a multi- or hybrid cloud environment and how it can be leveraged by users to access infrastructure across different clouds with secure access via fine-grained permissions. Jacob has spoken at each of the last three worldwide HashiTalks.

»Packer

The Packer Plugin Repository, What’s init? Wilken Rivera, a HashiCorp software engineer on the Packer team, walks through two of the major changes in the new Packer 1.7 release: A new plugin repository and the packer init command.

»Vagrant

Getting your Python Development Environment Ready with Vagrant Mario García will show you how to configure Python-based development environments with Vagrant.

»Waypoint

Building and Deploying Applications to Kubernetes with GitLab and Waypoint A second talk by HashiCorp Ambassador Jacob Mammoliti walks through setting up a GitLab CI/CD pipeline to automatically build, deploy, and release an application to GKE with Waypoint.

I Just Want to Ship My Code. Waypoint, Nomad, and Other Things. HashiCorp software engineer Michael Lange will showcase three demos of the build, deploy, release workflow for a Node.js website using Kubernetes and Docker, Nomad and Docker, and Nomad and raw binaries — all with a Waypoint workflow.

»Product-Agnostic

Chaos, Creativity, and Cookies Andrew VanLoo shares some thought-provoking tips about information theory and how it can help you be a better software engineer.

Measuring DevOps Success with Pipeline Analytics Chris Riley teaches you how to build a strategy for measuring DevOps, and using tools like DORA and Flow metrics as KPIs for success.

The Hardest Part of Operating a Service Mesh: Envoy Proxy Christian Posta shares his observability, debugging, and tuning lessons for working with Envoy proxy.

»More Highlights

These were about half of the total HashiTalks that covered Boundary, Packer, Vagrant, or Waypoint topics. To find all of the talks, go to the HashiTalks schedule page to locate the time of day for any other talks you want to see. Then head over to our livestream recordings on YouTube:

• HashiTalks 2021: Day 1
• HashiTalks 2021: Day 2

In the coming weeks, we'll post highlight roundup blogs for HashiTalk sessions covering our other products, HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, Vault, and Terraform.

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