Hashicorp Terraform Review

HashiCorp's Terraform is the software to use if you are looking to be able to construct or reconstruct entire infrastructure of an organization/project in a very short period of time and maintain the changes as code.

Pros

● HashiCorp Terraform Integrates with over 125 providers including major cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS etc, version control repository hosting providers such github, gitlab etc and many more. This makes provisioning, management, updating, maintenance and destruction of resources easier. ● HashiCorp products have proper and efficient documentation that makes a new user get started easily. ● HashiCorp products have a large and active community support since their products are open source. ● Hashicorp products have an easy to use interface.

Cons

● Management of state files that holds information of the infrastructure and changes may be an issue sometimes especially if a number of users are allowed to carry out new changes to the infrastructure.

HashiCorp Review

A must-have for defining infrastructure-as-code. HashiCorp enables multi-cloud, vendor agnostic IaC which increases the flexibility, reduces the risks inherent with vendor lock-in, and enables things like DR.

Pros

Open source versions allow you to get started straight away, with cloud and enterprise platforms that easily let you take it to the next level. These tools are a must have for any cloud computing shop. The ability to define the computing environment in code in a platform neutral way, provides the business with the flexibility necessary in 2020.

Cons

Some quirky things in the HCL language, but major improvements were made in HCL2 (speaking specifically of TerraForm). It does take some time to get going with some of the concepts, but the documentation has drastically improved.

Review for HashiCorp Vault

It has been an easy application to use with my PowerShell scripts that I manage an entire datacenter with.

Pros

HashiCorp vault is a simple method to programatically access and maintain secure information (credentials, etc.). I like that it is simple to set up and begin using right away. There are known PowerShell and Perl modules for it, or simply using its API is not all that difficult.

Cons

There were some concepts to learn (tokens, keys, hierarchy, and other cool things it does) that needed some explaining, but a co-worker helped me understand, and in less than an hour I was using my first password.

Secure and Flexible Solutions

Hashicorp is at the centre of our infrastructure and operations. As a software company, Hashicorp has allowed us to create secure and agile environments for Development, Testing, and Production

Pros

Hashicorp offer some of the most robust and inclusive DevOps / SecOps Solutions. Many of the HashiCorp services work with and complement each other allowing enterprises to create consistent and manageable infrastructure under IaC. You can integrate with your cloud services and on premise systems.

Cons

Solutions can become very complicated very quickly

Vault is a solutionm available to manager all certs and keys in devops pipeline

We are using many other products from hashicorp and all are great

Pros

easy installation and configuration. Also good OSS support available through slack and other channels

Cons

There are still some manual configuration needed those can be automated and i am sure team is working on it to make more user friendly both instllation and use wise