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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by lawik »

ak217 wrote: post #109
geerlingguy wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The BSL licensing thing has turned off a lot of the more hobbyist/tinkerer-centric users who really rocketed HashiCorp's products up the ladder in their orgs. It's a bit like Elasticsearch, I think—it's gotten big enough it won't be a quick death, but I don't see Hashi's products growing/dominating as much now as I did a couple years ago. (As an aside, I'd like to thank Mitchell for his work over the years, Vagrant e…

It's true that the licensing change is a turnoff, but Terraform redefined an industry. What's the alternative? (I'm hoping Mitchell is going to have an answer to that)

It was forked. The OpenTofu variant seems to have backing. Used it yesterday.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by xyzzy123 »

imglorp wrote: post #100
fud101 wrote: post #59

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KMS? Secrets manager? Are those offered by a particular vendor or what

Yes but if you want to be multi-cloud and not have to integrate with each cloud's secret storage API, you would do it once for Vault and bring it with you to each cloud.

Probably I just work at more dysfunctional places than you, but:

If I'm building product for on prem I'd prefer to use env vars or k8s secrets and let the customer integrate their preferred secrets manager. Also helpful when you run sales POCs where ease of getting to splash page really matters.

Building inside enterprise, I've never actually had to support multiple clouds for the same component but if it ever comes up and I have any sort of choice in the matter I would probably rather template 3 native secrets integrations than deal with the special circle of hell that is enterprise-managed Vault or CyberArk.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by prmoustache »

imglorp wrote: post #100
fud101 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KMS? Secrets manager? Are those offered by a particular vendor or what

Yes but if you want to be multi-cloud and not have to integrate with each cloud's secret storage API, you would do it once for Vault and bring it with you to each cloud.

The reality is you will never use a common secret storage anyway as usually and even when using multi-cloud tools like terraform you write a lot of cloud vendor specific stuff because they do not share the same provider. So using different secret storage API is not a huge deal and pretty much a moot point.

Also my vision of multi-cloud in large org hasn't been that a particular product/app or team was ever using multiple clouds. My experience is that large orgs like to have multi-cloud support because they grow by acquiring other companies regardless of which cloud vendor they are using so you just want to provide standards and templates for everyone. Obviously said templates will be usually cloud vendor specifics.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by ricardbejarano »

mitchellh wrote: post #15

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

Just wanna say thank you for all your hard work!

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by DiabloD3 »

mitchellh wrote: post #15

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

Now you get to work on your terminal fulltime now ;)

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by conradfr »

jtreminio wrote: post #28
mitchellh wrote: post #15

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

My first major foss was heavily based around Vagrant (PuPHPet). It was a joy building on top of your tooling to make web engineers lives easier. Thank you for your work, it was great while it lasted!

PuPHPet was very useful, I started many projects with it.

I actually still have some projects with a Vagrant VM based on it that I have to move to docker compose or something.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by nkko »

nanmu42 wrote: post #101

Out of topic but I can't help to notice the og:image of the web page is 57 MiB. https://www.datocms-assets.com/2885/1702507860-mitchell-hc19...

DatoCMS uses imgix and resizes based on the URLs params. If they haven't implemented that in the frontend layout then .

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by rickette »

mitchellh wrote: post #15

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

Thanks! You made quite an impact establishing all those projects.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by gyre007 »

mitchellh wrote: post #15

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

Incredible run! Thanks for all the tools you’ve given us. But more importantly all the relentless passion for automation has been very inspiring! Chapeau, sir! All the best in whats next for you.
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