HashiCorp strengthens its cloud platform to boost developers and platform teams with further workflow automation and lifecycle management

New releases span infrastructure and security with capabilities for end-to-end automation, generative AI, validation and testing, and cost optimization.

SAN FRANCISCO , Oct. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HashiCorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCP), a leading provider of multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, today announced at HashiConf, its flagship user conference, product updates across the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). Announcements are focused on enhancements to workflow automation for developers and infrastructure and security lifecycle management for cloud platform teams. Key announcements include AI-generated tests for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud, the debut of HCP Vault Radar, HCP Vault Secrets, HCP Consul Central, and HCP Waypoint templates.

For organizations adopting the cloud, platform teams have emerged to help standardize the interface between developers and the cloud, minimize manual tasks with automation and AI, and enable developers with workflow integrations needed to quickly and securely deploy applications.

Infrastructure workflow automation and lifecycle management
HashiCorp Terraform is the de facto standard for infrastructure as code. Terraform has been downloaded by the community hundreds of millions of times, has thousands of enterprise customers, hundreds of thousands of users on Terraform Cloud, and hundreds of partners and integrations.

HashiCorp released multiple new capabilities in its infrastructure portfolio for HashiCorp Terraform and Packer, which handle infrastructure as code provisioning and management.

• Terraform native test framework and Terraform Cloud test-integrated module publishing: Automates unit and integration testing of Terraform code; provides an integrated workflow to publish modules to the private registry.
• Terraform Cloud AI-generated tests: Large language models (LLMs) generate tests for a module on behalf of the user, allowing module authors to start writing tests quickly.
• Terraform stacks*: Major enhancement to the Terraform execution engine that enables complex deployments across multiple environments across modular infrastructure components.
• Terraform enhanced editor validation: Automatically validates Terraform code by developers’ code sources, including copying/pasting from AI tooling or using IDE-integrated tools like GitHub Copilot or Amazon CodeWhisperer.
• Terraform Cloud ephemeral workspaces: Helps manage the cleanup of unused resources accumulated over time to optimize cloud costs. Also available in Terraform Enterprise.
• HCP Packer run task: Quickly check image compliance with precise results and remediation guidance enhanced for Terraform Cloud.
• HCP Packer webhooks: Easily embed Packer into your existing automation pipelines and enforce additional policy and compliance checks.