HashiCorp

Back-end & Platform Engineering Technology Enabler

HashiCorp is a leading company in the cloud infrastructure sector, known for its suite of open source and commercial tools that help automate and simplify infrastructure management, security and application deployment. In early 2025, IBM completed the acquisition of HashiCorp, creating an end-to-end hybrid cloud platform.

Thanks to its ability to adapt to a wide range of scenarios, HashiCorp has become the preferred choice of numerous companies to modernize their infrastructures and accelerate time-to-market.

Bitrock has been an Enabled Partner of HashiCorp since 2020. Thanks to this partnership, we have gained solid experience in using HashiCorp tools to design and implement modern, scalable and highly available infrastructures. Our team members have several certifications such as HashiCorp Certified Implementation Partner, Terraform Associate and Vault Associate.

OVERVIEW

HashiCorp offers a complete suite of open-source and commercial tools to automate and manage cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure.

The HashiCorp platform allows you to define and manage infrastructure and security life cycles, making processes more reliable, faster and more flexible:

  • Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM): a suite of tools that automate and manage the entire lifecycle of IT infrastructures, from design to decommissioning.
  • Security Lifecycle Management (SLM): solutions to guarantee the security of infrastructures and applications throughout their entire lifecycle. 
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SOLUTIONs

Thanks to its products, HashiCorp provides complete solutions to automate, protect and manage IT infrastructure in an effective and secure way.

HashiCorp’s Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) allows you to define and manage infrastructure resources through code, making processes more repeatable and reliable, through products such as:

  • Terraform: an ‘as code’ infrastructure provisioning and management tool that allows you to automate the creation and configuration of cloud and on-premises resources
  • Packer: a tool that implements the creation and maintenance of immutable, consistent and replicable virtual machine or container images
  • Nomad: an application orchestrator that allows you to efficiently distribute and manage containers, VMs and traditional applications on heterogeneous infrastructures
  • Waypoint: a platform that allows the creation of workflows for developers

HashiCorp’s Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) allows you to define and manage security policies and access controls in a consistent and scalable way, automating processes and ensuring a proactive security posture through products such as:

  • Vault: a centralized and secure secrets management system that allows you to securely store, protect and distribute credentials, cryptographic keys and other sensitive data, ensuring better application security.
  • Boundary: a modern PAM solution that combines multi-factor authentication, role-based authorization and session recording, offering secure remote access and visibility into user activities.
  • Consul: provides secure service discovery and networking solutions based on service identities across heterogeneous cloud and runtime environments.

USE CASES

The tools in the HashiCorp suite are used in numerous enterprise scenarios:

HashiCorp Terraform

Terraform manages infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code: a DevOps team can adopt it to define and deploy complete AWS infrastructures with VPC, subnets, load balancers and EC2 instances, managing everything through versioned code. Companies use it to simplify the promotion of infrastructure changes across multiple environments and to simplify integration between multiple cloud providers.

HashiCorp Vault

Vault allows for the centralized management of credentials and secrets in an enterprise environment, and is often used in banking applications to manage API keys, database credentials and SSL certificates, implementing automatic credential rotation and distributing them securely to applications.

HashiCorp Consul

In e-commerce, Consul manages the automatic discovery of services such as shopping carts and payments, while video streaming platforms use it to manage routing between thousands of globally distributed microservices.

HashiCorp Nomad

Nomad orchestrates containerized workloads on a large scale: it is therefore often used by data analysis companies to schedule batch jobs on clusters, while web applications use it to automatically scale based on traffic, optimizing the deployment of containers.

Development teams can instead adopt Packer to maintain standard images through automated templates, also creating hardened images for production with security patches and consistent configurations.

waypoint

Waypoint simplifies enterprise deployments. Development teams can automate build, push and deployment on Kubernetes with one command, while companies often use it to manage the deployment of microservices on different environments with a unified interface.

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Franco Geraci

Franco Geraci

Head of Engineering

Simone Ripamonti

Simone Ripamonti

Team Lead Engineering

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