HashiCorp is a

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company with a

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business model based in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

. HashiCorp provides open-source tools and commercial products that enable developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure, run and connect

cloud-computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over multip ...

infrastructure. It was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. HashiCorp is headquartered in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

, but their employees are distributed across the

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, and

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. HashiCorp offers both

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and proprietary products.

History

On 29 November 2021, HashiCorp set terms for its

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at 15.3 million shares at $68-$72 at a valuation of $13 billion. HashiCorp considers their 1,500 workers to be

remote work Remote work, also called work from home (WFH), work from anywhere, telework, remote job, mobile work, and distance work is an employment arrangement in which employees do not commute to a central place of work, such as an office building, ware ...

ers first rather than coming into an office on a full time basis.

Open-source tools

HashiCorp provides a suite of open-source tools intended to support the development and deployment of large-scale service-oriented software installations. Each tool is aimed at specific stages in the life cycle of a software application, with a focus on automation. Many have a plugin-oriented architecture in order to provide integration with third-party technologies and services. Additional proprietary features for some of these tools are offered commercially and are aimed at enterprise customers. The main product line consists of the following tools: *

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(first released in 2010): supports the building and maintenance of reproducible software-development environments via

virtualization In computing, virtualization or virtualisation (sometimes abbreviated v12n, a numeronym) is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something at the same abstraction level, including virtual computer hardware platforms, stor ...

technology. * (first released in June 2013): a tool for building virtual-machine images for later deployment. * Terraform (first released in July 2014):

infrastructure as code Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. The IT infrastructure manage ...

software which enables provisioning and adapting virtual infrastructure across all major

cloud In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space. Water or various other chemicals may co ...

providers. *

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(first released in April 2014): provides

service mesh In software architecture, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between services or microservices, using a proxy. A dedicated communication layer can provide a number of benefits, su ...

, DNS-based service discovery, distributed KV storage, RPC, and

event Event may refer to: Gatherings of people * Ceremony, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion * Convention (meeting), a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest * Event management, the organization of eve ...

propagation. The underlying event, membership, and failure-detection mechanisms are provided by Serf, an open-source library also published by HashiCorp. * Vault (first released in April 2015): provides secrets management, identity-based access, encrypting application data and

auditing An audit is an "independent examination of financial information of any entity, whether profit oriented or not, irrespective of its size or legal form when such an examination is conducted with a view to express an opinion thereon.” Auditing ...

of secrets for applications, systems, and users. * Nomad (released in September 2015): supports scheduling and deployment of tasks across worker nodes in a cluster. * Serf (first released in 2013): a decentralized cluster membership, failure detection, and

orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orc ...

software product. * Sentinel (first released in 2017): a policy as code framework for HashiCorp products. * Boundary (first released in October 2020): provides secure remote access to systems based on trusted identity. * Waypoint (first released in October 2020): provides a modern workflow to build, deploy, and release across platforms.

Security issue

Around April 2021, a

supply chain attack A supply chain attack is a cyber-attack that seeks to damage an organization by targeting less secure elements in the supply chain. A supply chain attack can occur in any industry, from the financial sector, oil industry, to a government sector. ...

using code auditing tool codecov allowed hackers limited access to HashiCorp's customers networks. As a result, private credentials were leaked. HashiCorp revoked a private signing key and asked its customers to use a new rotated key.

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