HashiCorp

Overview

American software company that develops infrastructure automation tools. Best known for Terraform (IaC), Vault (secrets), Consul (service mesh), and Packer (image building).

Key Facts

  • Founded: 2012-09-01

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA

  • Status: Public (NASDAQ: HCP)

  • CEO: Dave McJannet

  • Founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar

  • Terraform is the most popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool

  • Vault is the leading secrets management platform

  • Consul provides service discovery and networking for microservices

  • Changed Terraform license from MPL 2.0 to BUSL 1.1 (source-available) in 2023

  • Other tools: Packer, Vagrant, Nomad, Waypoint

Products Mentioned in Wiki

Ansible | Pulumi is a competing IaC tool that uses general-purpose programming languages Gitlab