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  • HashiCorp Launches Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Automation as a Service with HashiCorp Cloud Platform

    New Offering to Enable a Bridge to Multi-Cloud for Enterprises with Push-Button Deployments and Fully Managed Infrastructure

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HashiCorp®, the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, at HashiConf Digital today announced its new flagship cloud offering HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), a fully managed platform offering the HashiCorp products as a service to automate infrastructure on any cloud.

    With HCP, customers will be able to use HashiCorp products to provision, secure, connect, and run an organization’s cloud-based infrastructure without having to take on the operational burden.

    “As enterprises around the globe accelerate their move to the cloud, they are following the blueprint that many cloud-native companies pioneered — and are looking to the HashiCorp products to help them automate the management of that infrastructure,” said Dave McJannet, CEO of HashiCorp. “But even large organizations struggle to find the operational staff and skills required for the new cloud operating model. With the HashiCorp Cloud Platform, we are helping to democratize cloud infrastructure. By having HashiCorp operate this platform for you, it is simpler and faster to stand up and run your applications in multi-cloud environments.”

    Unlocking the true value and power of cloud means embracing a cloud operating model at all layers and for all of the constituents in IT, including operations, security, networking, and applications. With the HashiCorp suite of products—Terraform®, Vault™, Consul®, and Nomad™—enterprises benefit from consistent workflows across any environment and at every layer.

    HCP is designed to be a bridge to multi-cloud for organizations transitioning to a new, dynamic IT infrastructure model. HCP will lower the barrier to entry for using the HashiCorp products by enabling a customer to automate production deployments while relying on HashiCorp to handle management, upgrades, and scaling of the products. HCP will also offer a pay-as-you-go pricing model that is ideal for small and medium-sized organizations.

    HCP will enable flexibility for multi-cloud environments with a consistent workflow and unified set of APIs for all HashiCorp products across all cloud providers. Enterprises will be able to use consistent HashiCorp identities and centralized access control policies to govern access to resources across teams and providers. HCP will reduce the operational burden for enterprises, accelerating delivery of their multi-cloud strategies and allowing them to focus on building cloud-native applications that can be run in the most appropriate environment.

    “Hashicorp’s popular automation tools are adopted by development and operations teams, but like all enterprise tooling carry an overhead in installation and management,” James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk. “HCP is designed to remove this overhead, making the tools easier to consume and run, enabling HashiCorp for humans, not just elite teams.”

    “Enterprise infrastructure continues to increase in complexity and is challenging to manage,” said Stephen Elliot, Program Vice President, IDC. “IT executives want different delivery options, such as a best-in-class user experience, but without the challenges and overhead of having to manage the infrastructure to support it. The managed, as-a-service model provides executives with an opportunity to accelerate cloud deployments, increase productivity, and make use of multi-cloud flexibility.”

    Availability
    HCP Consul will be the first service available on the new platform, initially supporting AWS. HCP Consul will offer secure service networking across EKS, EC2, and other AWS application environments, and also enable organizations to securely connect AWS environments to other cloud environments and to private data centers. HCP Vault will be the next service available and will also support AWS.

    Organizations can request early access to the HCP Consul private beta by visiting hashicorp.com/cloud-platform.

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    About HashiCorp
    HashiCorp is the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. The HashiCorp software suite enables organizations to adopt consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. HashiCorp’s open source tools Vagrant™, Packer™, Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad are downloaded tens of millions of times each year and are broadly adopted by the Global 2000. Enterprise versions of these products enhance the open source tools with features that promote collaboration, operations, governance, and multi-data center functionality. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, though 85 percent of HashiCorp employees work remotely, strategically distributed around the globe. HashiCorp is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Franklin Templeton, Geodesic Capital, GGV Capital, IVP, Mayfield, Redpoint Ventures, T. Rowe Price funds and accounts, and True Ventures. For more information, visit https://www.hashicorp.com or follow HashiCorp on Twitter @HashiCorp.

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  • HashiCorp Extends Consul Service Mesh Reach

    HashiCorp Extends Consul Service Mesh Reach

    HashiCorp today made available an update to its Consul service mesh that makes it easier to integrate legacy and modern applications.

    Service meshes have emerged as a framework for documenting and controlling how application services interact with one another. Most of the adoption of service meshes thus far has involved applications built using microservices. With potentially hundreds or even thousands of microservices to manage, a service mesh framework becomes essential.

    HashiCorp Consul 1.8 extends the reach of the Consul service mesh by making available additional gateway and compliance features that make it easier to integrate any service into any mesh, in addition to adding support for audit Logging and single sign-on (SSO) capabilities.

    Amith Nair, vice president of product marketing for HashiCorp, said organizations that adopt Consul can apply a service mesh to both microservices and monolithic applications. That approach also eliminates the need to deploy a service mesh such as Istio, which only works when deployed in conjunction with a Kubernetes cluster.

    In general, Nair said Consul enables IT organizations to gain the benefits of a service mesh without being required to retire existing application services or manage them in isolation from modern cloud-native applications.

    Longer-term, Nair said HashiCorp expects an ecosystem to develop around Consul as technology partners extend the core capability of a service mesh to add, for example, application firewall services.

    It’s too early to say to what degree IT organizations will embrace service meshes as a technology. However, as IT environments become more complex many enterprise IT organizations are shifting toward managing services rather than individual applications. That approach enables IT organizations to align their IT strategy more easily with specific business outcomes.

    At a time when many organizations are also trying to accelerate a transition to digital business processes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of those digital business processes are typically a collection of loosely coupled application services that could be managed via a service mesh.

    Nair said while it’s still early in terms of adoption, most enterprise IT organizations are now at least aware of what a service mesh does and why they might need to deploy one. The challenge, of course, will be getting IT organizations to prioritize the deployment of a service mesh when many IT budgets have become suddenly constrained. It’s also not clear who inside of those IT organizations will fund service mesh projects, which benefit a variety of application projects—application owners tend not to directly fund centralized IT management services, which leaves it up to IT leaders to fund. The challenge is, most IT budget dollars are already allocated.

    In the meantime, developers will continue to embrace everything from Kubernetes to serverless computing frameworks. However, the rate at which new applications are deployed generally far exceeds the rate at which applications are retired. As such, IT organizations should expect to find themselves managing a wide array of different types of application services for many years to come.

  • One Identity Allies With HashiCorp to Advance DevSecOps

    One Identity Allies With HashiCorp to Advance DevSecOps

    One Identity, a provider of identity management software, has aligned with HashiCorp to make it easier for DevOps teams to implement best DevSecOps practices.

    Tyler Reese, a senior product manager for One Identity, said via a plugin for HashiCorp Vault developers can now securely manage, monitor, record and audit privileged and administrative access to their vaulted tokens, passwords, certificates, application programming interface (API) keys and other secrets residing in the Safeguard privileged access management (PAM) platform from One Identity.

    The goal is to make it easier for developers to securely access credentials stored within Safeguard without having to provide access to every credential used to access, for example, a packaged application that a developer is trying to provide access to via a custom application or vice versa, he said.

    The two companies are trying to bridge the divide between end user credentials managed by IT teams that have control over access to packaged applications and the way DevOps teams manage secrets within their custom applications, said Reese. DevOps teams increasingly need to integrate custom applications with packaged applications. The challenge organizations face is finding a way to securely provide that access in a way that doesn’t require internal IT teams to be overly involved in the application development process, he noted, adding by integrating with HashiCorp Vault, all the friction is taken out of the process.

    Based on a transparent protocol proxy software that inspects protocol traffic at the application level, Safeguard rejects traffic that violates policies defined by the internal IT team. That approach prevents unauthorized and unfettered access to data. IT teams can also monitor privileged sessions in real-time with the ability to execute various actions, such as terminating a session if unusual or unwanted behavior is detected. Safeguard also enables IT teams to rotate privileged access passwords to comply with a wide range of regulations, said Reese.

    As developers embrace DevSecOps they need to find a way to dovetail their efforts with existing password management processes. For the most part, DevSecOps remains aspirational within most organizations. There is general agreement that more responsibility for security should shift left toward developers. However, most organizations are still a long way from putting the tools in the hands of developers who need to extend existing DevOps workflows. In the absence of those processes and tools, DevSecOps often winds up being little more than a sermon that IT leaders give to development teams.

    On the plus side, the rate at which cybersecurity tools that are integrated with the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms on which DevOps processes depend is steadily increasing. As that trend continues to gain momentum, the relationship between developers and cybersecurity teams will evolve. Cybersecurity teams will continue to define controls and verify that they have been implemented. Developers will be held accountable for implementing those controls as part of the overall quality assurance process. The challenge now is getting everyone inside behind that cultural transition in advance of the tools that will be available soon.

  • Announcing HashiCorp Cloud Engineering Certifications

    The HashiCorp Cloud Engineering Certifications are designed to help technologists demonstrate their expertise with fundamental capabilities needed in today’s multi-cloud world.

    Organizations of all sizes have embraced cloud technology and are adopting a cloud operating model for their application workloads. This new model of computing is inherently multi-cloud and driven by a need for heterogeneous, on-demand, self-service infrastructure; identity-based secure access; and dynamic, flexible network perimeters separate from physical servers. We believe that the job of cloud engineer — and the mastery it requires over the new competencies in these multi-cloud environments — will play a critical role in helping thousands companies transform their IT investments.

    We have created our Cloud Engineering Certifications so you can demonstrate your knowledge, capability, and expertise working with the de facto standard open source multi-cloud automation tools from HashiCorp. You can become certified today in Infrastructure Automation and Security Automation, with Network Automation coming later this year. The online, proctored, multiple-choice exams will assess fundamental knowledge for each discipline and evaluate core implementation skills using HashiCorp Terraform, Vault, and Consul.

    Exam Preparation

    To help you prepare for the certification exams, we have created three tools. First, if you are fairly new to HashiCorp products, we have built a curated list of Learn guides (Terraform, Vault), Katacoda scenarios, and documentation pages that cover the exam core objectives, organized sequentially to help practitioners learn from first principles. Second, if you are experienced with our tools, we have created a comprehensive review guide (Terraform, Vault) that identifies root documentation for each topic tested to help you pinpoint specific areas that you may want to brush up on. Third, we have provided examples of what types of questions to expect on the exam. These include multiple choice, multiple answer, and text match-style questions (Terraform, Vault).

    Taking the Exam

    The certification exams are taken online and facilitated by a proctor via video conferencing. The proctor verifies your identity, goes over exam procedures, and stays with you during your exam. You can take the exam at home or at work instead of driving to a testing center and there are exam appointment slots in all time zones. The proctor is responsible for ensuring that you don’t receive assistance (in-person, audio, or digital) during the exam, and that exam procedures are followed correctly for the duration of the test. To increase your likelihood of success, please make sure that you conduct the exam with a clear desk, where you will not be disturbed and can be visible via webcam for the whole test. You will get a list of the complete exam rules when you sign up.

    Sharing Results

    HashiCorp will inform you of your test results immediately upon exam completion. We have partnered with Credly’s Acclaim platform to offer you a digital badge upon passing the certification exam. There is no fee for this service and acceptance is up to you. Sharing your badge via social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter links back to a real-time verification feature that describes your qualifications and lets you gain instant recognition from your professional network. You can also include the badge in your email signature, digital resume, and embed it on your personal website or blog. Once you earn your first HashiCorp certification badge you can share it on social media with the #CloudEngineer and #TerraformCertified or #VaultCertified hashtags.

    Schedule Your Certification Exam

    The certification exams are managed through our exam platform partner and will require practitioners to create an account, purchase, schedule and take the exam. You can schedule a Terraform or Vault Associate exam today. Consul and advanced exams are coming soon.

    We at HashiCorp are committed to helping you solve some of the most challenging cloud engineering problems. We expect that the HashiCorp Cloud Engineering Certifications will become the benchmarks for multi-cloud competency that enterprises, system integrators and technology companies will use to ensure the success of their digital infrastructure efforts.

  • HashiCorp Strengthens Vault Secrets Management

    HashiCorp Strengthens Vault Secrets Management

    HashiCorp has released an update to its HashiCorp Vault platform for managing secrets and encrypting data that now includes an internal storage option that eliminates the need to manage a separate storage backend.

    Version 1.4 of Vault also adds an OpenLDAP Secrets Engine, which automates the management of static entities within OpenLDAP directories, and the ability to authenticate users and applications using the Kerberos authentication protocol.

    HashiCorp has also updated the enterprise edition of Vault to add support for a Transform Secrets Engine that can be used to secure data that reside outside of Vault, such as credit card numbers, by applying tokenization techniques to mask data, as well as a Vault Helm Chart tool that makes it easier to deploy Vault on Kubernetes clusters to the enterprise edition of the tool.

    Finally, the enterprise edition of Vault adds improved disaster recovery capabilities and support for NetApp enterprise key management to more easily manage encrypted data.

    Chris Kent, director of product marketing for HashiCorp, said thanks to the increased focus on data privacy there is a greater appreciation for the need to maintain application secrets in a platform that resides outside of the core application. Regulations such as the General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) enacted by The European Union and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) penalize companies for losing control over credentials and data. As a result, more organizations are looking for a way to better manage application secrets, noted Kent.

    At the same time, cybercriminals are becoming more adept at discovering the credentials of end users that developers sometimes inadvertently leave accessible within their applications, he noted. Vault provides a way to manage and maintain application secrets outside of the application in a way that serves to significantly enhance overall application security.

    As developers and cybersecurity teams collaborate more closely as part of any effort to embrace best DevSecOps processes, it’s becoming apparent that a lot more attention must be paid to how application secrets are managed. In fact, arguably one of the biggest impediments to improving the overall security of applications is the way developers have historically managed application secrets. It’s not uncommon for cybercriminals to compromise an application in a way that gives them access to thousands of individual user names and their associated passwords, many of which unfortunately are reused both inside and outside of the extended enterprise. The challenge at this point is not so much making the tools available to manage application secrets as much as it is changing the processes and culture within organizations that are just now starting to embrace DevSecOps.

    In general, as organizations become more proficient at managing application secrets the more secure application environments should become. Of course, secrets management is only one aspect of application security. However, the absence of an effective strategy for managing application secrets can prove catastrophic. By the time most IT organizations realize their application secrets have been compromised, it’s usually far too late to undo the damage.

    — Mike Vizard

  • HashiCorp Names Brandon Sweeney as Chief Revenue Officer

    Sweeney to Help Company Scale Globally to Support Growing Customer Base

     

    SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HashiCorp®, the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, today announced that it has appointed Brandon Sweeney as its first Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

    “As demand for the HashiCorp suite of products increases, I am delighted to have Brandon join us as CRO, to help take us to a new stage of growth and of scaling our field operations around the world,” said David McJannet, chief executive officer, HashiCorp. “Brandon brings to HashiCorp a unique breadth of experience in building and leading field operations — exactly what’s needed for a fast growing technology company that’s leading a generational shift in the infrastructure market.”

    Prior to HashiCorp, Sweeney spent 16 years at VMware where he held various senior leadership roles across its sales organization, helping to grow VMware into a multi-billion-dollar, globally recognized brand with a product footprint in the IT departments of nearly every major organization worldwide. Most recently, Sweeney was SVP of worldwide cloud sales, where he was responsible for field operations and customer success for VMware Cloud offerings. This included VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as the Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM joint cloud offerings, and the ecosystem of 4,000+ cloud providers and MSP partners. Previously, Sweeney built and ran the multi-billion-dollar worldwide commercial, partner, and Dell businesses at VMware.

    “There are very few technology companies that surpass the growth milestones or have the kind of global impact that HashiCorp has achieved, and that do so in such a short period of time,” said Sweeney. “As the Global 2000 enterprises and SMBs leverage HashiCorp’s solutions to help them simplify and realize the full benefits of their multi-cloud IT infrastructure, I am excited to help scale the company and field organization. I believe HashiCorp can help our customers unlock a common cloud operating model — a challenge every organization is facing today.”

    As a result of the global impact and demand for its suite of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products, HashiCorp experienced more than 100 percent year over year revenue growth during its fiscal year 2020, which ended on January 31, 2020. During the past year, HashiCorp’s footprint across enterprise customers grew significantly, which now includes more than 200 of the Global 2000 and 100 of the Fortune 500 as customers.

    About HashiCorp
    HashiCorp is the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. The HashiCorp software suite enables organizations to adopt consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. HashiCorp’s open source tools Vagrant™, Packer™, Terraform™, Vault™, Consul®, and Nomad™ are downloaded tens of millions of times each year and are broadly adopted by the Global 2000. Enterprise versions of these products enhance the open source tools with features that promote collaboration, operations, governance, and multi-data center functionality. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Mayfield, GGV Capital, Redpoint Ventures, True Ventures, IVP, and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, visit https://www.hashicorp.com or follow HashiCorp on Twitter @HashiCorp.

  • HashiCorp Advances Open Source Consul Service Mesh

    HashiCorp Advances Open Source Consul Service Mesh

    HashiCorp this week updated its Consul service mesh to make it easier to manage namespaces across multiple services.

    Previously, DevOps teams would have to manually ensure each namespace assigned to a group of services did not conflict with each other. The release of 1.7 of Consul enables teams to restrict access to services residing in isolated environments on a shared cluster, eliminating the issue.

    In addition, DevOps teams can now delegate administrative privileges for a given namespace to individual teams, which enables them to manage their own services in keeping with best DevOps practices, rather than having to rely on a cybersecurity team to manage that process for them.

    With the rise of microservices based on containers, interest in service meshes to provide a means to discover and manage services is on the rise. However, services span both emerging microservices-based applications and legacy monolithic applications. Rather than adopting a service mesh that only runs on one platform, HashiCorp is opting for an open source service mesh that spans multiple platforms and is easier to deploy and manage than rival offerings such as Istio.

    Amith Nair, vice president of product marketing at HashiCorp, said that approach also makes it easier to deploy a service mesh at scale across multiple clouds and on-premises IT environments. Because Consul is designed to deployed on top of proxy servers such as Envoy or NGNIX, it can be deployed almost anywhere to manage services sprawl across the extended enterprise, noted Nair.

    As far as the adoption of service meshes are concerned, it is still early days. Many organizations are in the process of shifting away from managing applications to focusing on services that span multiple applications. Given all the dependencies that exist between various services, that shift represents a major challenge. A service mesh alleviates some of that challenge by providing a mechanism for both discovering and governing services that are increasingly interdependent.

    That approach also provides the added benefit of allowing teams tasked with governing and auditing IT environments to focus more on higher levels of abstractions versus updates to every line of code on which those services are constructed.

    For now, there are no standards, de facto or otherwise, in terms of service meshes. Many organizations may find themselves adopting multiple frameworks, which may lead to further advances in interoperability specifications such as the Service Mesh Interface between rival platforms.

    Less clear for now is who inside an IT organization will be responsible for acquiring and managing a service mesh. In some organizations it might be a network operations or cybersecurity team. In other organizations, those roles may have already been incorporated within a larger DevOps team.

    Regardless of the approach, the need for some type of service mesh is becoming more apparent. The good news is there is now no shortage of options. However, DevOps teams should note that in terms of overall complexity and amount of compute resources consumed, not all services meshes are the same.

    — Mike Vizard

  • HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise Empowers IT Administrators

    HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise Empowers IT Administrators

    Most of what passes for management of IT infrastructure often amounts to little more than a Word document describing how a system is configured. HashiCorp developed Terraform to enable IT organizations to programmatically manage IT infrastructure. Now the company is taking that concept a step further with the release of Terraform Enterprise, a collaboration application that can be employed to programmatically manage IT infrastructure without requiring IT administrators to know how to program.

    HashiCorp co-CTO Armon Dadgar says Terraform provides an application that makes its Sentinel policy management framework more accessible. Previously, use of Terraform and Sentinel were limited largely to developers looking for a common way to manage infrastructure as code. But Dadgar says customer requests made it clear there was also demand for a collaboration application that did not require any programming skills to employ.

    Terraform Enterprise includes Workspaces, a set of modules that that can be delegated to separate teams. Dadgar says Workspaces are roughly equivalent to Git repositories that have access controls for each IT team, using a secure access markup language (SAML) that comes with built-in encryption.

    In addition, Terraform Enterprise exposes an application programming interface (API) that can be invoked for integration with existing tooling or application delivery pipelines. Dadgar says with the rise of multiple clouds in an organization, it’s now only a matter of time before existing approaches to managing IT infrastructure simple become obsolete. Pressure from developers to increase the amount of time it takes to provision and update IT infrastructure is only going to increase, says Dadgar.

    HashiCorp is effectively trying to smooth over one of the more contentious aspects of DevOps. In theory, developers want more control over IT infrastructure largely because they often view internal IT teams as being too slow. To enable IT organizations to be more responsive, various APIs have been exposed that can be invoked using IT automation framework. Many of those frameworks, however, require programming skills that most IT administrators don’t possess. Many organizations also don’t want developers to be managing IT infrastructure when they could be devoting that time to writing and test applications. Dadgar says Terraform Enterprise provides a graphical user interface (GUI) through which all the benefits of managing infrastructure as code can be attained without having to teach administrators how to program, or allowing programmers to invoke IT infrastructure resources without any adult supervision.

    HashiCorp is not the only provider of IT management frameworks trying to solve this issue. There are rival declarative frameworks for automating IT and many providers of the latest generation of software-defined infrastructure are embedding modern IT management frameworks within pre-integrated systems. But HashiCorp is one of the few vendors providing organizations with a dual approach using the same core underlying set of APIs. Rather than continuing to be at odds with one another, developers and IT administrators now could find it easier to collaborate using whatever approach to infrastructure as a code they best see fit.

    — Mike Vizard

  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Secures DevOps Infrastructure

    HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Secures DevOps Infrastructure

    HashiCorp, a DevOps infrastructure company known for its Atlas platform that combines a variety of powerful open-source tools, recently announced Vault Enterprise. HashiCorp describes Vault Enterprise as a comprehensive security solution for DevOps infrastructure. Vault Enterprise is the foundation for security in the HashiCorp DevOps infrastructure suite.

    Open source is a virtual necessity for effective DevOps—forming a close symbiotic relationship. I explained in the DevOps and Open Source report published earlier this year, “There are some significant advantages with FOSS (free and open-source software). With a proprietary, closed-source application there are very few people with access to look at the code. Recent incidents with SSH backdoors demonstrate that closed most certainly does not mean secure. When the code is open those types of backdoors can be quickly spotted and resolved.”

    With the addition of Vault Enterprise, the HashiCorp suite is now comprised of:

    • Vault Enterprise – Empowers security teams to collaborate, validate, and enforce security policies
    • Terraform Enterprise – Empowers operations teams to collaborate, validate, and provision infrastructure
    • Nomad Enterprise – Empowers development teams to collaborate, validation, and deploy applications
    • Consul Enterprise – Empowers all teams to monitor the complete stack

    Vault Enterprise is not entirely new. It builds on the open-source Vault to enable security teams to define and enforce security policy and secrets management across distributed infrastructure.

    “The shift to highly elastic, microservice architectures requires a different approach to security. Static network-based security is poorly equipped to handle the dynamic application-centric infrastructures being built today,” said Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp. “Vault Enterprise enables organizations to adopt DevOps practices in their approach to security and keep pace with development and operations teams that are adopting DevOps.”

    Vault Enterprise includes Hardware Security Module (HSM) integration, which enables developers to integrate Vault Enterprise with HSMs using Vault’s simple API rather than more complex HSM interfaces. According to HashiCorp, there are also a variety of enhancements and new collaborative features in Vault Enterprise, including a new UI for managing secrets, health alerts and monitoring and an intuitive workflow for initializing new Vault clusters.

    “Deploying enterprise software to both public and private cloud infrastructure requires a security solution that works everywhere. As we adopt DevOps practices that make our applications and infrastructure more dynamic, we need bullet-proof security,” said John Mitchell, Architect at SAP Ariba. “HashiCorp’s Vault is the only offering that meets these requirements—one workflow across providers and dynamic secrets management.”

    DevOps is a culture and a process—not a silver bullet solution or a single product. HashiCorp understands this while still trying to provide a DevOps infrastructure platform that’s as complete as possible. HashiCorp pulls a variety of effective and useful leading tools together, and delivers them in a modular fashion that allows you to embrace DevOps at your own pace.

    There are plenty of vendors out there creating proprietary tools and platforms. What I like about HashiCorp is how it is harnessing the power of an array of open source tools to provide a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Vault Enterprise is available now.

  • DevOps Leader HashiCorp Announces $24 Million in Growth Funding

    NAPA, CA–(Marketwired – Sep 7, 2016) – HashiConf User Conference — HashiCorp, the DevOps infrastructure company, today announced $24 million in Series B funding, bringing the total raised to date to $34 million. The round was led by GGV Capital with Mayfield, True Ventures, and new investor Redpoint also participating. HashiCorp plans to use the funding to accelerate its rapid growth and continue open source and enterprise product development to support its millions of users.

    Also today HashiCorp announced Vault Enterprise, a complete solution for DevOps security:http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=1275720.

    HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the goal of revolutionizing datacenter management across development, operations, and security. As organizations transform themselves to be successful in the software economy, they invest in DevOps infrastructure. HashiCorp DevOps infrastructure enables companies to align and empower developers, operators, and security teams to accelerate application delivery and increase their competitiveness in the software economy.

    “Armon and I founded HashiCorp to make development, operations, and security easier so organizations could focus on building the applications of the future. The rate of open source and commercial adoption of our technology has been tremendous,” said Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp. “The productivity of the HashiCorp team is inspiring and I’m excited to continue the journey together to bring DevOps infrastructure to even more organizations.”

    This year:

    • HashiCorp had its first 7-figure revenue quarter after only nine months of enterprise sales. Customers include enterprises like Conde Nast, Cisco, and Mozilla.
    • Weekly open source downloads are up 125 percent in the first six months of this year, adding to the community of several million monthly active users. HashiCorp’s open source user base includes technology leaders such as Stripe, Uber, Twitch, OpenAI, Pinterest, and Capital One.
    • HashiCorp’s modular and open product design fostered a rich ecosystem of partners including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, VMware, and GitHub.
    • HashiCorp was named a Cool Vendor in DevOps by Gartner and an MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase finalist. Also this year, Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar were named to Inc’s 30 Under 30 list.
    • HashiCorp hired its 50th employee, growing from six employees just two years ago.

    Beyond these milestones, the next stage for HashiCorp is bringing its DevOps vision to more users across open source and enterprise communities. In the software economy companies win by bringing applications to market faster than their competitors. HashiCorp’s DevOps infrastructure accelerates application delivery by aligning developers, operators, and security. This holistic view and widespread adoption defines HashiCorp as a leader in DevOps with a clear trajectory ahead.

    “HashiCorp builds world-class tools for development, operations, and security teams to manage distributed applications and infrastructure. The adoption of these tools in global enterprises has been tremendous,” said Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner at GGV Capital and a HashiCorp Board Member. “We are extremely pleased to continue our partnership with them as they continue their mission to accelerate software application delivery.”

    About HashiConf
    HashiConf is HashiCorp’s annual user conference to bring together the community to define the future of infrastructure. Speakers this year include Home Depot, Target, Verizon, PayPal, and Microsoft, and sponsors include AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub, and Bridgewater Associates. HashiConf is taking place this year in Napa, California September 6-8. For more information, visit: https://hashiconf.com or follow HashiConf on Twitter @hashiconf.

    About HashiCorp
    HashiCorp is the DevOps infrastructure company. HashiCorp technology aligns development, operations, and security to accelerate application delivery. The company manages seven open source tools (Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Serf, Consul, Vault, and Nomad) that span runtime, infrastructure, security management. Enterprise versions of Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad enhance the respective open source tools with enterprise features that promote collaboration, policy-validation, and intelligent automation. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Mayfield, GGV Capital, Redpoint, and True Ventures. For more information, visit: https://hashicorp.com, or follow HashiCorp on Twitter @hashicorp.