IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal

Post by alecsm » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 6:50 PM UTC

dontdoxxme wrote: post #185

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Why slow and complicated? We're just starting to implement it and we've only heard good things about it.

Ansible is great if you have workflows where sysadmins SSH to servers manually. It can pretty much take that workflow and automate it. The problem is it doesn’t go much beyond that, so you’re limited by SSH roundtrip latency and it’s a pain to parallelize (you end up either learning lots of options or mitogen can help). However fundamentally you’re still SSHing to machines, when really at scale you want some kind of…

Post by kensey » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 7:46 PM UTC

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> 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). The reasoning is basically that there are some security and isolation guarantees you don't get in Kubernetes that you do get on bare metal or (to a somewhat lesser extent) in VMs. In particular…

Thanks for the detailed explanation - some of what you say sounds familiar, but this was nearly 5 years ago so my fuzzy recollection of their reasoning - I recall it being something like they didn't trust etcd being compromised on kubernetes. My counterargument to that internally was "if your etcd cluster is compromised by a threat actor you have way bigger problems to worry about than secrets"

Post by akashcoach » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 8:41 PM 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 buxtehude » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 10:34 PM UTC

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A lot of the people I respected from Heroku went there, glad they got a chance to use their skills to build something useful and profitable; glader still that they got their payout. Sadly I echo your sentiment about the future, as someone who has heard second-hand about the quality of work at modern Redhat. I am wondering how many more rounds of consolidation are left until there is no more space to innovate and we o…

our current economic model kind of depends on the idea that we can always disrupt the status quo with american free market ingenuity once it begins to stagnate but maybe we have reached the limits of what friedman's system can do or accounted for.

Post by op00to » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 12:07 AM UTC

tristan957 wrote: post #186

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Red Hat is a shell of itself. There is no appetite for taking on Terraform when Ansible is their ugly baby.

I've found they are complements to each other. One provisions infra, the other customized that infra for your needs. But I could be totally off-base.