HashiCorp

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HashiCorp, Inc.
TypePublic
Founded2012
Founder
  • Mitchell Hashimoto
  • Armon Dadgar
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Key people
David McJannet (CEO)
Products
Number of employees
1,500
Websitehashicorp.com Edit this at Wikidata

HashiCorp is a software company[1] with a freemium business model based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp provides open-source tools and commercial products that enable developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure, run and connect cloud-computing infrastructure.[2] It was founded in 2012 by  [Wikidata] and  [Wikidata].[3][4]

HashiCorp is headquartered in San Francisco, but their employees are distributed across the United States, Canada, Australia, India, and Europe. HashiCorp offers both open-source and proprietary products.[5]

History[]

On 29 November 2021, HashiCorp set terms for its IPO at 15.3 million shares at $68-$72 at a valuation of $13 billion.[6]

HashiCorp considers their 1,500 workers to be remote workers first rather than coming into an office on a full time basis.[7]

Open-source tools[]

HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar

HashiCorp provides a suite of open-source tools intended to support the development and deployment of large-scale service-oriented software installations. Each tool is aimed at specific stages in the life cycle of a software application, with a focus on automation. Many have a plugin-oriented architecture in order to provide integration with third-party technologies and services.[8] Additional proprietary features for some of these tools are offered commercially and are aimed at enterprise customers.[9]

The main product line consists of the following tools:[2][8]

  • Vagrant (first released in 2010[10]): supports the building and maintenance of reproducible software-development environments via virtualization technology.
  •  [Wikidata] (first released in June 2013[11][12]): a tool for building virtual-machine images for later deployment.
  • Terraform (first released in July 2014): infrastructure as code software which enables provisioning and adapting virtual infrastructure across all major cloud providers.
  • Consul (first released in April 2014[13][8]): provides service mesh, DNS-based service discovery, distributed KV storage, RPC, and event propagation. The underlying event, membership, and failure-detection mechanisms are provided by Serf, an open-source library also published by HashiCorp.
  • Vault (first released in April 2015[14]): provides secrets management, identity-based access, encrypting application data and auditing of secrets for applications, systems, and users.[9]
  • Nomad (released in September 2015[15]): supports scheduling and deployment of tasks across worker nodes in a cluster.
  • Serf (first released in 2013): a decentralized cluster membership, failure detection, and orchestration software product.[16]
  • Sentinel (first released in 2017[17][18]): a policy as code framework for HashiCorp products.[19]
  • Boundary (first released in October 2020[20]): provides secure remote access to systems based on trusted identity. Alternatives to Hashicorp Boundary include Teleport Community Edition, Bastion Hosts, and strongDM.[21]
  • Waypoint (first released in October 2020[22]): provides a modern workflow to build, deploy, and release across platforms.

Security issue[]

Around April 2021, a supply chain attack using code auditing tool codecov allowed hackers limited access to HashiCorp's customers networks.[23] As a result private credentials were leaked. HashiCorp revoked a private signing key and asked its customers to use a new rotated key.

References[]

  1. ^ Warren, Justin (23 February 2017). "Jay Fry Leaves New Relic To Head HashiCorp Marketing". Forbes.
  2. ^ a b Lardinois, Frederic (7 September 2016). "HashiCorp raises $24M for its DevOps infrastructure software". TechCrunch.
  3. ^ Williams, Alex (28 November 2012). "Vagrant Founder Launches HashiCorp To Support His Open Developer Management Tool". TechCrunch. AOL.
  4. ^ Handy, Alex (21 November 2016). "The future of HashiCorp". SD Times.
  5. ^ Fay, Joe (8 September 2016). "HashiCorp pulls in $24m to build out DevOps infrastructure portfolio". The Register.
  6. ^ Beltran, Luisa. "Cloud Software Provider HashiCorp Targets $13 Billion Valuation With IPO". Barrons. Barrons. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  7. ^ Novet, Jordan (2021-12-09). "HashiCorp shares rise after one of top software IPOs of 2021 values company at over $14 billion". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  8. ^ a b c Ward, Chris (20 June 2017). "HashiCorp Tools Useful for Continuous Integration". Codeship Blog.
  9. ^ a b "HashiCorp Announces the General Availability of Vault Enterprise for DevOps Security Across Dynamic Infrastructure". 7 September 2016.
  10. ^ "Release v0.1.0 · hashicorp/Vagrant".
  11. ^ "Release v0.1.0 · hashicorp/Packer".
  12. ^ "HashiCorp Packer 1.0".
  13. ^ "HashiCorp Consul".
  14. ^ "Vault/CHANGELOG.md at master · hashicorp/Vault".
  15. ^ "HashiCorp Nomad".
  16. ^ https://www.serf.io/
  17. ^ "Announcing Sentinel, HashiCorp's Policy as Code Framework".
  18. ^ "HashiCorp Sentinel - wikieduonline".
  19. ^ "HashiCorp Sentinel framework".
  20. ^ "Announcing HashiCorp Boundary".
  21. ^ "Alternatives to Hashicorp Boundary | strongDM". www.strongdm.com. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  22. ^ "Announcing HashiCorp Waypoint".
  23. ^ "HashiCorp revoked private key exposed in Codecov security breach". VentureBeat. 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2021-08-03.

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