HashiCorp, a company well-known for its Terraform software that DevOps teams use to deploy cloud resources using infrastructure as code, was established a decade ago, before phrases like multicloud and hybrid cloud had become commonplace in the language of cloud computing.
However, the company's co-founders, Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, already foresaw that multicloud would be the future and that businesses would require automation tools to deploy and connect their applications to any mix of on-premise and public cloud environments.
Today, the business has broadened its selection of infrastructure management products, including Consul, a tool that automates cloud networking, and Vault, which maintains keys and secrets in distributed systems.
Tell me about the company's goals and the overarching plan for expanding the company.
daniel mcannet When we first founded the business, we believed that multicloud would represent the stable state of the cloud. As a result, we had the chance to offer consistency in comparison to the practical reality faced by personnel managing cloud infrastructure.
We basically break down the cloud problem into tiers. People in the cloud have a provisioning issue: how do I provision computing in a consistent manner? Another issue with security is how to use identity as the cornerstone of security when everything in the cloud world takes place outside of datacenters. In contrast, in the private datacenter, you are permitted to communicate with one another if your IP address falls inside this range.
In this new environment where an app operating on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has to connect to a database located in a private datacenter, question number three is about how I should approach networking. These three fundamental concepts of cloud computing explain why we have such a wide range of products that handle each of these concerns, each of which is unique.
The way the markets have behaved suggests to me that this point of view was pretty correct. Terraform has essentially standardized the provisioning process. The way individuals exchange identities across machines has been standardized by Vault, and networking has been standardized by Consul.
For every step of their cloud journey, as a company, we have committed to becoming their multicloud partner. Our product line is a representation of it and sort of overlays the market's maturity, with some products being more well-liked in various places.
I hear that HashiCorp is delving even farther into each of the categories you named, and as a result, you could find yourself competing with companies like Okta, for instance, in the identity management space. What do you think about the market competition?
McJannet: Every time there is a changeover in infrastructure, from the old to the new, there is a chance for a new vendor to appear. The current vendor environment will change as we go from a world of private datacenters to a world of the cloud because the products you've developed, for instance, in the mainframe era, don't really transfer to the client-server age. The client-server era's products don't truly work in the cloud age. As a result, generally speaking, the vendors have changed.
To understand how these many markets connect together, I believe you will need to examine each one in detail. You have distinct teams for networking and security when you use a private datacenter.
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