Cloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp Inc. today kicked off its annual HashiConf in Boston with a range of new product announcements and enhancements focused on supporting enterprises as they scale up their platform teams with comprehensive infrastructure and security lifecycle management.
The new capabilities address issues, including so-called Day 0 concerns, related to launching enterprise cloud programs and adopting automation workflows such as infrastructure as code and identity-based access control. Other announcements address concerns relating to standardization, optimization, security and compliance.
Leading the list are infrastructure lifecycle management announcements, starting with the new HCP Terraform Stacks — a new service in public beta that allows users to coordinate, deploy and manage interdependent Terraform configurations in infrastructure-as-code workflows. The service eliminates the need to track cross-configuration dependencies manually.
Also new and launching today in public beta is Terraform Migrate, a service that automates the migration of common do-it-yourself workflows from Terraform Community Edition to HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise. Terraform Migrate helps enterprises adopt cloud management best practices more easily.
“Terraform Migrate is very important for HashiCorp, which focuses on the Global 3500 companies as its paying customers,” said Rob Strechay, managing director at SiliconANGLE’s sister company theCUBE Research. “HashiCorp is seeing significantly higher adoption of the Cloud Platform, where they are running the HashiCorp products-as-a-service.”
Entering general availability today is HCP Waypoint, an internal developer portal offering templates to codify golden patterns for provisioning. Golden patterns for provisioning are standardized, reusable templates or best practices that ensure consistent and efficient setup of cloud infrastructure across various environments.
Also generally available today is Nomad GPU Enhancements Version 1.9, a service offered by Hashicorp that enables advanced graphics processing unit scheduling for artificial intelligence workloads. The new version adds GPU scheduling features to support additional AI workloads, including multitenant GPU sharing and resource quotes to maximize efficiency.
“Nomad GPU scheduling is pretty essential as this is super important for keeping the expensive GPUs busy or not to have them burning energy when there is no work to be done,” said Strechay. “This is tied up with what is being done at the hypervisor, and the Kubernetes layer is significant for organizations as they work to deploy gen AI and ML workloads.”
On the software lifecycle management side, HashiCorp led with updates to HCP Vault Secrets, which sees the introduction of new lifecycle management features, such as auto-rotation into general availability, dynamic secrets (in public beta) and dynamic cloud credentials to enhance secret management across cloud environments.
New services include HCP Vault Raider, which offers secret scanning with support for preventing unmanaged secrets and tools for remediation of leaked secrets. Another new service, Boundary Transparent Sessions, provides secure remote access to privileged resources without adding friction for end users, allowing authorized users to connect seamlessly.
Also announced today was the general release of Vault 1.18, the latest version of HashiCorp’s security platform designed to manage secrets and protect sensitive data. Vault 1.18 introduces additional hardening to support high-scale and high-throughput workloads, ensuring enhanced security and performance for enterprises with demanding operational needs.
In addition, the release includes improved Public Key Infrastructure support, particularly for CMPv2 protocols, enabling workloads such as 5G networks to retrieve and rotate certificates automatically.
“With Terraform stacks, we’re reimagining infrastructure as code, making it easier to build and deploy the same infrastructure multiple times, across multiple environments, regions, landing zones, or accounts within a cloud provider,” said co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Armon Dadgar. “And with new features across Vault and Boundary, we’re bringing important management capabilities to our security portfolio, including auto-rotation, dynamic secrets and secret scanning to provide full lifecycle management for security.”