What incentive do you have to start paying for HashiCorp's products?

Post by igaloly » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 7:40 AM UTC

f0e4c2f7 wrote: post #10

igaloly wrote: post #7

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Do you assume that enterprises that currently use the open-source edition of HasiCorp's product will start paying for support? Why should they if everything went fine till now? Can you please share from where your experience comes about enterprises?

If you started asking companies if they use the free or paid version you might be surprised to find how few use the free version. I'm sure there are some that use the open source version and do their own support but generally large enterprise companies want a 3rd party vendor to yell at. As the software becomes more popular you're more likely to have managers interally ask about switching to the paid version, or in s…

Super interesting.Thanks for your insights!

Post by rmetzler » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 1:58 PM UTC

igaloly wrote: post #9

altdataseller wrote: post #8

No incentive. Unlike other open source products we pay for like Mongo/Elastic, a managed version of Terraform or Consul doesn’t make much sense to use… we would only pay for support but even then there are a lot of docs online.

I also don't understand the managed version of Terraform. What capabilities will it be able to give you? In what I do see value is managed Vault and Nomad. What do you think?

regarding managed Terraform: I don't have that much experience with Terraform, but you want GitOps integration and a state that has no race condition problems. As far as I know it's not too hard to build Terraform in your GitOps pipeline, but there's probably value when not every company need to do this manually for all their projects.

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