HashiCorps

HashiCorp is a software company that develops and offers a suite of tools for cloud infrastructure management. Founded in 2012, the company focuses on creating open-source and commercial products that address various aspects of the cloud computing lifecycle, including provisioning, security, networking, and application deployment.

The core HashiCorp products are designed to work together, enabling organizations to automate and manage their cloud environments across different providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Terraform is their flagship product for infrastructure as code, allowing users to define and provision infrastructure resources through configuration files. Vault is used for managing secrets, encryption keys, and sensitive data. Consul provides service discovery and configuration management. Nomad is a workload orchestrator for deploying and managing containerized, non-containerized, and batch applications. Packer automates the creation of machine images for multiple platforms.

HashiCorp's approach emphasizes a declarative, infrastructure-as-code methodology, aiming to simplify complex cloud operations and promote consistency and repeatability. The company's products are widely adopted by developers and operations teams to build and manage modern, scalable cloud infrastructure. HashiCorp offers these tools through both open-source versions and enterprise-level commercial products that add advanced features and support.