HashiCorp
HashiCorp provides multi-cloud infrastructure automation tools.
- Categories
- Secrets management, Privileged access management, Encryption and key management, Identity and access management
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2012
- Ownership
- Part of IBM since 2024
About HashiCorp
HashiCorp provides multi-cloud infrastructure automation tools. Its main products are Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Boundary, Packer, and HCP Vault Radar. Terraform lets teams provision and manage infrastructure with declarative configuration files. Vault stores, accesses, deploys, and rotates secrets, and encrypts data in flight and at rest. Consul connects and secures services with mutual TLS and automates network rules across clouds. Nomad deploys and manages containers and other workloads on premises and in the cloud. Boundary and Packer also appear in the product list. The company sells to enterprises and offers paid support, a free forum, and community resources. It also provides HashiCorp Validated Designs, which are reference architectures and operational guidance for deploying its enterprise products at scale. HashiCorp offers certifications to verify skills with its multi-cloud products. These include Terraform Associate, Terraform Infrastructure Engineer, Terraform Authoring and Operations Advanced, Vault Associate, Vault Operations Advanced, and Consul Associate. The company provides tutorials, documentation, and hosted terminal environments for learning.
Products
- TerraformProvisions and manages infrastructure using declarative configuration files.
- VaultSecurely stores, accesses, deploys, and rotates secrets, and encrypts data in flight and at rest.
- ConsulConnects and secures services with mutual TLS and automates network rules across clouds.
- NomadDeploys and manages containers and other workloads on premises and in the cloud.
- BoundaryProvides secure access to hosts and services in an enterprise environment.
- PackerBuilds machine images for multiple platforms from a single configuration.
Ownership and deals
- IBM acquired HashiCorp for $6.4bnReport on IBM buying HashiCorp (opens in a new tab)
- HashiCorp acquired BluBracketReport on HashiCorp buying BluBracket (opens in a new tab)
Acquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. Funding rounds from 2022 onwards come from Return on Security's weekly Security, Funded newsletter. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.