HashiCorp Raises $175M at $5.1B Valuation

Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 5:42 AM UTC

jen20 wrote: post #36

streetcat1 wrote: post #16

Just to note that the relative test code to production code ratio in Hashicorp products is 10:1 (10 lines of test for every line of code).

That seems unlikely to be true (I haven’t measured but worked there). Perhaps it’s true of Terraform where testing is verbose anyway, but it’s almost certainly not of Packer, for example.

Post by FooBarWidget » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 6:41 AM UTC

derekchiang wrote: post #6

I had the chance to work with Armon as a contractor at HashiCorp when I was in college. Armon was absolutely one of the most down-to-earth leaders I've ever seen. Even though he was technically brilliant and I was only an undergrad, he never made me feel like I was stupid or inexperienced, but rather patiently guided me towards the best solutions, so I was able to gain a lot of confidence and grow a lot along the way…

Post by wideem » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 7:24 AM UTC

chucky_z wrote: post #60

scarface74 wrote: post #54

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What is the purpose of Vault if you’re already on AWS? Even though I prefer CloudFormation, Terraform is quite popular. As far as Consul and Nomad, they are both nice for on prem infrastructure - I’ve used both - but once you’re on either AWS or Azure, the native solutions are a lot less of a hassle and Nomsd (sadly) will never get the mindshare of k8s.

You don't want to pay $1/month to store a single secret. You want a nicer workflow for creating ephemeral users and tokens than AWS themselves have. You want to do on-the-fly encryption of all sorts of things. You want a real PKI without every bit of know-how.

Post by techntoke » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 9:12 AM UTC

SteveNuts wrote: post #14

miohtama wrote: post #5

They could not have more last minute timing. Now everything melts and the time of funny money is over.

If they either turn Nomad into a full blown hypervisor stack or roll that into its own product, they could seriously put a dent in some extremely entrenched companies like VMware. I'm talking storage, networking, virtualization... They'd make bank.

Post by mbag » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 10:51 AM UTC

techntoke wrote: post #66

purpleidea wrote: post #50

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> Additionally, I think HashiCorp not embracing kubernetes and trying to push Nomad was a huge miscalculation. Nah, embracing kubernetes is the miscalculation that every other company is making. It's a dead end. This part they're doing right. (Not saying I'm fond of nomad, but kube is absurd.)

Lol, that is why it took HashiCorp 6 months to write a broken Ansible playbook for Vault that takes an hour to deploy (they couldn't even do it with Terraform) when it takes less than 30 seconds to deploy on Kubernetes natively.