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Re: HashiCorp IPO today

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Post by Too »

ignoramous wrote: post #27
altdataseller wrote: post #11

Don’t understand why anyone would need their cloud products. Who needs Terraform or Nomad or Vault as a service?

They're like Docker for DevOps? > ...a common confusion is multi-cloud vs. multi-vendor services. The latter is way more common, especially at smaller companies. Tools like Terraform are often touted as "multi-cloud" and people ask questions like "Why would I use Terraform if I use only AWS?" And the easy answer to that is tools like Terraform allow you to manage anything with an API as code. For example: do you want…

Funny thing is Terraform isn't really cloud agnostic. I don't understand why this keeps coming up as a selling point all the time. Apart from the syntax of HCL and the concept of state-management. You still have to learn each vendors unique resource-types, which is like 10000 times more difficult than the underlying HCL language.

It's still a great product for lots of other reasons, just don't believe for one second it will help you move from AWS to Azure. It's almost like saying YAML is multi-vendor.

Re: HashiCorp IPO today

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taf2 wrote: post #81

Thanks HashiCorp... it's nice to write lines like this less often: ``` sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmpswap bs=4096 count=1M && sudo chmod 0600 /tmpswap && sudo chown root:root /tmpswap && sudo mkswap /tmpswap && sudo swapon /tmpswap ```

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Re: HashiCorp IPO today

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Post by technofiend »

Too wrote: post #201
ignoramous wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're like Docker for DevOps? > ...a common confusion is multi-cloud vs. multi-vendor services. The latter is way more common, especially at smaller companies. Tools like Terraform are often touted as "multi-cloud" and people ask questions like "Why would I use Terraform if I use only AWS?" And the easy answer to that is tools like Terraform allow you to manage anything with an API as code. For example: do you want…

Funny thing is Terraform isn't really cloud agnostic. I don't understand why this keeps coming up as a selling point all the time. Apart from the syntax of HCL and the concept of state-management. You still have to learn each vendors unique resource-types, which is like 10000 times more difficult than the underlying HCL language. It's still a great product for lots of other reasons, just don't believe for one second…

This is true. But there are ways to hide that with one more layer. For instance the rackn guys just released an update to digital rebar that uses pipelines and brokers to stand up infrastructure using among other things terraform but the user just specs out what they want in simple profiles. Digital rebar supports aws, linode, digital ocean, etc. You still have to specify a few things unique to each cloud provider but the scripting for each is otherwise the same.

Re: HashiCorp IPO today

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Post by selecsosi »

notreallyserio wrote: post #131
jen20 wrote: post #119

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If you don’t need the Shamir part of Vault, create fewer key shares. If you integrate properly throughout the stack (i.e “not being negligent”) then secrets will not hit properties files, rotation will happen correctly, and you will be able to audit everything. You can also do this using a native secret management system if you’re in a a public cloud, but Vault is, for the most part, just better.

What do you suggest? That is, what is proper? I haven't found a good example showing how to use it without environment variables, files*, or http interfaces with shared secrets, but it has been a while since I dug in and I could have missed something obvious. edited to add "files"

This is one example we put out https://github.com/avantoss/vault-infra for vault that supports auto-unlock and other DR hosting features. Once you set it up you remove access to buckets, keys, and ssh and it runs pretty self contained. Upgrades are pretty seamless. One of the most stable and reliable pieces of our infrastructure. Relies on AWS but could be supported with most cloud platforms

Re: HashiCorp IPO today

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Post by nunez »

benjaminwootton wrote: post #75
nunez wrote: post #55

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You and a bunch of other founders!

Hi Carlos! Yes we were one of them. Hashicorp was a big part of our success ( https://Contino.io ). Hashicorp were nice to work with. Congrats guys.

Hey Ben! It was awesome working with y'all. Can confirm; HashiCorp helped huge :D
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