HashiCorp Inc. (HCP)

Overview

Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, HashiCorp, Inc. specializes in providing comprehensive multi-cloud infrastructure automation solutions on a global scale. The company has established itself as a leader in enabling organizations to adopt an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach, which facilitates the automation and codification of processes and configurations that support applications. This approach transitions away from traditional, manual, and ticket-based methods, thereby enhancing efficiency, scalability, and reliability across IT operations. HashiCorp's suite of products caters to various aspects of the IT infrastructure, including provisioning, security, networking automation, workload orchestration, and application delivery. Furthermore, the company offers a fully-managed cloud platform, the HashiCorp Cloud Platform, designed to accelerate enterprise cloud migration by addressing resource and skills gaps, improving operational efficiency, and ensuring faster deployment times for its customers.

Products and Services

• Terraform: Provides an Infrastructure-as-Code platform to enable IT operations teams to automate and codify processes and configurations needed to support applications, replacing manual, ticket-based processes.

• Packer: Offers a coherent method to define the transformation of raw source inputs into production-ready artifacts across various environments or packaging formats, ensuring consistency and reliability in the creation of machine images.

• Vagrant: Enables teams to describe and automate the setup of development environments, promoting consistency across development and production environments and reducing onboarding times for new developers.

• Vault: A secrets management and data protection product that allows security teams to apply policies based on application and user identity to manage access to credentials and protect sensitive data.

• Boundary: Focuses on identity-based privileged access management, unifying access controls into a single system that enhances security and simplifies access management for privileged accounts.

• Consul: An application-centric networking automation tool that enables practitioners to manage application traffic, aids security teams in securing and restricting access between applications, and enables operations teams to automate network infrastructure with ease.

• Nomad: A scheduler and workload orchestrator that offers a self-service interface for managing the application lifecycle, facilitating efficient scaling and deployment of applications across multiple cloud environments.

• Waypoint: Delivers a developer-focused workflow for the build, deploy, and release process, simplifying application delivery and ensuring consistency and reliability across the development lifecycle.

• HashiCorp Cloud Platform: A fully-managed cloud platform that integrates multiple HashiCorp products to expedite enterprise cloud migration. It addresses the resource and skills gap, enhances operational efficiency, and reduces deployment times for customers transitioning to the cloud.