December 2022 Summaries

The HashiCorp Ambassador program recognizes individuals who share knowledge, mentorship, and kindness in the community. The program aims to strengthen the open-source project's ecosystem by fostering a welcoming community and promoting the HashiCorp Principles. In 2022, ambassadors engaged with their local and global communities through content creation, participation in events, and feedback on HashiCorp tools. The program provided opportunities for ambassadors to share knowledge, mentor others, and connect with product teams, leading to valuable connections and insights. Now, the submission window is open for new nominations and applications, allowing community members to recognize individuals who have made a positive impact through their work with HashiCorp tools.

HashiCorp has been awarded the 2022 Palo Alto Networks Global Technology Partner of the Year Award, recognizing its comprehensive product engineering work and go-to-market motion with customers. The company's collaboration with Palo Alto Networks since 2018 has helped customers through their cloud adoption journey using a cloud operating model, integrating HashiCorp's Terraform, Consul, and Vault products to address multi-cloud infrastructure management, security, scalability, and development speed. Asvin Ramesh, HashiCorp's Senior Director of Partner Alliances, expressed his excitement about the recognition, highlighting the company's partnership with Palo Alto Networks as a key relationship that addresses cloud-to-code security and zero trust security approaches for joint customers. Pamela Cyr, Vice President of Technical Partnerships at Palo Alto Networks, praised HashiCorp's commitment to innovation and mutual customer success, stating that their partnership is critical to achieving better security outcomes.

HashiCorp, the company behind popular infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Consul, reflected on its 10th anniversary in 2022. The year saw significant product releases and updates across its ecosystem, including major features for Cloud Development Kit (CDK), HashiCorp Boundary, and HashiCorp Vault. The company also introduced new tools like HCP Waypoint and expanded its partnership with AWS. HashiCorp's customer base grew to nearly 3,900 companies, with over 1,150 new customers added in 2022. The company's employee count increased by more than 50% to reach 2,500 people worldwide. With a strong focus on community engagement, HashiCorp hosted virtual events like HashiConf Europe and Global, and welcomed back users groups after a two-year hiatus. The year was marked by several awards and recognitions from key partners, including Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft. As the company looks to 2023, it expressed gratitude for its global community of users, customers, and employees, who have supported its growth and success.

HashiCorp, an infrastructure provider, has reached its 10th anniversary. The company's co-founders, Armon Dadgar and Mitchell Hashimoto, reflect on their journey, the impact of their products, and the challenges they've overcome. They emphasize the importance of being early to market, having a controversial opinion about the future, and acknowledging that developers will be key players in shaping the industry. The company's vision remains focused on becoming a critical infrastructure provider for all companies, with a long-term goal of sustaining itself as a leader in the field. As they look ahead, HashiCorp aims to continue innovating, releasing new products, and establishing itself as synonymous with DevOps.

Terraform Cloud Run Tasks has expanded its integrations to provide more security and compliance options for cloud infrastructure management, with new partners such as Blink, Check Point, Rapid7, Tines, and ZScaler now validated integrations. These integrations enable teams to centralize checks, validations, and management of their infrastructure as code workflows, trigger automations with events from Terraform, scan and detect infrastructure misconfigurations, approve and record infrastructure requests, and connect users, devices, and applications for security scanning. With 19 partner products now available, HashiCorp provides a range of tools to help customers build policy-driven workflows that include code scanning, cost management, and compliance.

HashiCorp leaders share their predictions for the coming year, focusing on trends like multi-cloud acceptance, zero trust security, and AI adoption. They expect increased demand for infrastructure automation, tooling consolidation, and standardization across business units. The need for private datacenters will grow as enterprises cope with cost concerns and data sovereignty issues. Additionally, there will be a push towards EU data sovereignty, leading to the expansion of SaaS solutions and distributed architectures. The use of AI in narrow technical spaces, including DevOps, is also expected to increase, driving demand for cloud-engineering certification.

The Terraform Plugin Framework 1.0 is now generally available, providing a modern and extensible way for developers to create Terraform providers. The new framework, designed from the ground up using familiar patterns, prioritizes extensibility and concise abstractions, making provider development more maintainable and future-proof. It offers pre-built validators, path expressions, nested attributes, resource private state management, and custom types, enabling advanced use cases such as storing and retrieving values without exposing them to Terraform plans. The framework is backward compatible with Terraform versions 0.12 and later, allowing provider developers to opt for the newer Terraform Plugin Protocol version 6 for access to the latest features in Terraform 1.x.

HashiCorp Waypoint is an application release orchestrator that simplifies how developers build, release, deploy, and monitor their applications in cloud environments. It allows developers to configure applications quickly and save time managing deployments. Waypoint can be used with static application configuration or dynamic configurations sourced from external sources using a config sourcer plugin. The HashiCorp Vault config sourcer plugin can source static values as well as dynamic secrets, allowing for enhanced security by setting secrets to expire after a set time-to-live (TTL). With Waypoint's app deployment workflow, developers can easily integrate dynamic configurations with Vault, regardless of the deployment target. By using Waypoint and HashiCorp Vault, developers can securely manage their application secrets and improve the overall security of their applications. The example application demonstrates how to source dynamic secrets from Vault in a Waypoint deployment, providing a secure way to access database credentials.