HashiConf Global 2021 was a major event for enterprise customers, featuring customer-led sessions, keynotes, and product news from HashiCorp. The event highlighted the company's focus on helping enterprises succeed with its products, including Consul, Vault, Terraform, and Waypoint. Keynote highlights included announcements of new partnerships, such as Microsoft's zero-trust security solution, Boundary, and updates to HashiCorp's cloud services, including HCP Packer and Consul. Product news also included the release of Consul 1.11, a Kubernetes CLI, and Admin Partitions for multi-tenancy on service mesh. The event also featured talks on using Vault for secrets management in Consul Kubernetes and an update to the HashiCorp Vault roadmap. A special session was held with Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, who shared his personal story and insights on building a successful open-source project and balancing the needs of a company as an individual contributor.