Google Cloud's flagship cloud conference — Google Cloud Next — wrapped up April 11 and HashiCorp was fully engaged with demos, breakout sessions, presentations, and experts at our lively booth. This post shares announcements from the event and highlights recent developments in our partnership. HashiCorp and Google Cloud help organizations control cloud spend, improve their risk profile, and unblock developer productivity for faster time to market. The strength of our partnership can be seen in this recent milestone: The Google Cloud Terraform provider has now surpassed 600 million downloads. T ..read more

Today, we are announcing the general availability of provider-defined functions in the AWS, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes providers in conjunction with the HashiCorp Terraform 1.8 launch. This release represents yet another step forward in our unique approach to ecosystem extensibility. Provider-defined functions will allow anyone in the Terraform community to build custom functions within providers and extend the capabilities of Terraform. Introducing provider-defined functions Previously, users relied on a handful of built-in functions in the Terraform configuration language to perform a vari ..read more

Today, we are announcing the general availability of HashiCorp Terraform 1.8, which is ready for download and immediately available for use in Terraform Cloud. This version includes two new capabilities to improve the extensibility and flexibility of Terraform: provider-defined functions and refactoring across resource types. Provider-defined functions Terraform includes a wide selection of built-in functions to perform many common operations during provisioning. While they address many general use cases, there have been many requests from the community for more specialized functions and custo ..read more

Most Kubernetes resources and workloads reference the Kubernetes Secret object for credentials, API tokens, certificates, and other confidential data. Kubernetes stores secrets unencrypted by default and requires role-based access control (RBAC) rules to ensure least-privilege access. However, it does not offer a straightforward method for tracking the lifecycle and distribution of the secret. Rather than store secrets in Kubernetes, you can use a centralized secrets management solution like HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Vault Secrets to audit and manage secrets. This post demonstrates how to ..read more

Recent enhancements in HashiCorp Terraform Cloud help simplify the user experience when working with projects. A new dedicated browsing experience provides better visibility and manageability for projects, and the ability to restrict version control system (VCS) connections to projects enables more fine-grained control to reduce risk. Project overview page As the popularity of projects has grown, customers have found that long project names don’t all fit in the sidebar of the workspaces view. Customers need a better browsing experience for projects that is not restricted to a view designed for ..read more

The HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes continuously reconciles infrastructure resources using Terraform Cloud. When you use the operator to create a Terraform Cloud workspace, you must reference a Terraform Cloud API token stored in a Kubernetes secret. One way to better secure these secrets instead of hard-coding them involves storing and managing secrets in a centralized secrets manager, like HashiCorp Vault. In this approach, you need to synchronize secrets revoked and created by Vault into Kubernetes. An operator like the Vault Secrets Operator (VSO) can retrieve secrets fro ..read more

The Developer Relations team at HashiCorp loves to hear from the community of certified users, learning about their motivations for becoming certified and how their certifications have impacted their careers. The first in a series, what follows is an interview with Mario Rodríguez Hernández, a technologist from the Canary Islands who’s worked in roles at the top, middle, and bottom of org charts across several companies. Mario is certified in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, HashiCorp Terraform, Kubernetes, and many other technologies. Lauren Carey, HashiCorp Developer Relat ..read more

In November 2023, we announced the general availability of the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes. The Terraform Cloud Operator streamlines infrastructure management, allowing platform teams to offer a Kubernetes-native experience for their users while standardizing on Terraform workflows. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of version 2.3 of the Terraform Cloud Operator, with the ability to initiate workspace runs declaratively. Introducing workspace run operations In previous versions of the Terraform Cloud Operator v2, the only way to start a run was by patching t ..read more

HashiCorp Terraform Cloud run tasks have long been a staple for securely sharing Terraform-related data with trusted integration partners. And with the newest enhancements, the benefits go even further. These improvements empower teams to seamlessly expand their use of essential third-party integrations, facilitating automation, configuration management, security, compliance, and orchestration tasks. Recent efforts by the HashiCorp Terraform team have focused on refining the process of associating run tasks within Terraform organizations, significantly reducing day-to-day overhead. Plus, the i ..read more

HashiCorp Terraform is the world’s most widely used multi-cloud provisioning product. The Terraform ecosystem has notched more than 3,000 providers, 14,000 modules, and 250 million downloads. Terraform Cloud is the fastest way to adopt Terraform, providing everything practitioners, teams, and global businesses need to create and collaborate on infrastructure and manage risks for security, compliance, and operational constraints. This month, AWS AppFabric added support for Terraform Cloud, expanding an already long list of ways that Terraform can connect, secure and provision infrastructure wit ..read more