HashiCorp

HashiCorp is an American software company that develops open-source tools and commercial products for provisioning, securing, and running infrastructure. Founded in 2008 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, the company is based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp focuses on enabling developers, operators, and security teams to manage complex, multi-cloud environments with reproducible, automated workflows.

The company’s core open-source projects cover the lifecycle of modern infrastructure. Terraform provides infrastructure as code for provisioning resources across cloud providers; Packer builds machine images; Vagrant creates consistent development environments; Consul handles service networking, service discovery, and health checking; Vault provides secrets management and data protection; and Nomad orchestrates workloads across diverse environments. Additional tools include Waypoint for application deployment, Boundary for remote access, and Sentinel as a policy as code framework, among others.

HashiCorp operates a mixed business model that combines open-source software with proprietary enterprise features and cloud services. It offers Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise for collaborative infrastructure as code, Vault Enterprise for enhanced security features, and Consul and Nomad enterprise editions, along with support and professional services. The open-source projects remain widely used, with a strong ecosystem of contributors and users in the cloud-native and DevOps communities.

The company’s products are designed to support multi-cloud strategies, reproducible CI/CD pipelines, and secure, scalable operations in production environments. HashiCorp has shaped a large portion of modern infrastructure workflows by providing a cohesive set of tools that address provisioning, configuration, security, networking, and deployment.