IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal

Post by soraminazuki » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 2:18 AM UTC

miningape wrote: post #133

soraminazuki wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like how Google bought Doubleclick and definitely not the other way around?

Oh if only - it seems like somehow the shittiest culture manages to out survive the other and entrench itself inside the business. I know HN likes to blame this on the stock market forcing short term revenues but I think it goes deeper - the good "culture" employees actively flee these environments. Boeing acquiring McDonald Douglas is a classic example of this exact scenario: "McDonald Douglas bought Boeing with Boe…

Post by elzbardico » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 2:23 AM UTC

JojoFatsani wrote: post #248

JohnMakin wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was an extremely early user and owner of a very large-scale Vault deployment on Kubernetes. Worked with a few of their sales engineers closely on it - was always told early on that although they supported vault on kubernetes via a helm chart, they did not recommend using it on anything but EC2 instances (because of "security" which never really made sense their reasoning). During every meeting and conference I'd as…

(I have no idea what your infra is so don’t take this as prescriptive) My feeling is that for the average company operating in a (single) cloud, there’s no reason to use vault when you can just used AWS Secret Manager or the equivalent in azure or GCE and not have to worry about fucking Etcd quorums and so forth. Just make simple api calls with the IAM creds you already have.

Post by leetrout » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 2:32 AM UTC

JojoFatsani wrote: post #248

JohnMakin wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was an extremely early user and owner of a very large-scale Vault deployment on Kubernetes. Worked with a few of their sales engineers closely on it - was always told early on that although they supported vault on kubernetes via a helm chart, they did not recommend using it on anything but EC2 instances (because of "security" which never really made sense their reasoning). During every meeting and conference I'd as…

(I have no idea what your infra is so don’t take this as prescriptive) My feeling is that for the average company operating in a (single) cloud, there’s no reason to use vault when you can just used AWS Secret Manager or the equivalent in azure or GCE and not have to worry about fucking Etcd quorums and so forth. Just make simple api calls with the IAM creds you already have.

Post by me_again » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 2:47 AM UTC

rank0 wrote: post #94

calgoo wrote: post #49

Well, it was nice while it lasted! HashiCorp always felt like a company made by actual engineers, not "bean counters". Now it will just be another cog in the IBM machine, slowly grinding it down, removing everything attractive, just like RedHat and CentOS. Hopefully this will create a new wave off innovation, and someone will create something to replace the monopoly on IaC that IBM now owns.

I don’t understand people’s beef with IBM. They have been responsible for incredible R&D within computing. I even LIKE redhat/fedora! HashiCorp had already been sold out since waaaay before this acquisition and I also don’t understand why their engineers are seen as “special”…

Post by candiddevmike » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 2:53 AM UTC

roland-s wrote: post #269

JojoFatsani wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean Terraform, not Ansible?

IBM owns Ansible, redserk is saying Terraform will go a similar route. Although I don't see what they mean by core being lower priority than paid. The paid features are all available for free via AWX, which is the open source upstream of the paid product AAP.