HashiCorp also offers features like Terraform Stacks for managing complex multicomponent deployments, module life-cycle management to streamline upgrades and deprecations, and enhanced tagging for improved organization and governance within Terraform. Couple this with tight integration into other HashiCorp products such as Vault (secrets management), Consul (service discovery and connectivity), and Nomad (workload orchestration), and enterprises walk away with a more complete solution for managing and securing cloud infrastructure than they’d get from Terraform alone—or a competitive offering.
Customers are listening
This approach is working. BT Group, a leading telecommunications company, exemplifies how HashiCorp has blended its holistic product approach with key partners, in this case AWS, to meet customer demands that go beyond vanilla IaC. Working with HashiCorp and AWS, BT Group saw deployment times plummet from several days to just 10 minutes, facilitating the migration of 70 applications from their on-premises data center to AWS, resulting in improved scalability and significant cost efficiencies. BT Group didn’t just use Terraform; they also pulled in Nomad for application orchestration, Consul for service connectivity, and Vault for data security.
Other customers have used HCP Terraform to modernize their legacy applications, significantly decreasing the time required to provision new environments from weeks to hours. OXY reported a remarkable 90% improvement in developer productivity by leveraging Terraform, Packer, and Vault; Toyota successfully scaled its cloud onboarding processes using HCP Terraform and AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terriform (AFT). Clearly there is room for up-and-comers like OpenTofu without disrupting Terraform’s continued success in the enterprise, given HashiCorp’s comprehensive approach to ILM.