• kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    So let me get this straight: Hashicorp gets private equity’d, changes its license to be a rentseeker against Amazon and Google, and now sells itself to the OG rentseeker.

    What the fuck happened to open source?

    • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I would argue “open source”. I’ve paid attention to hashicorp for a while. They were always about “getting that bag”. Open source was a means to their ends.

      Something was fucky with them since day 1 and the fact many companies were openly using alpha software on production environments (my work included). Always rubbed me the wrong way.

      For good open source look at apps like Zabbix.

  • whodovoodoowedo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    hashicorp’s APIs will be right at home at IBM. Right along with HCL. not a fan of either but have been forced to use them. this might bode well for my future if a pending license change is coming.

  • someguy3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    HashiCorp provides a suite of 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.[16] Additional proprietary features for some of these tools are offered commercially and are aimed at enterprise customers.[17]

    Can someone tell me what this actually means?

    • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      They do tools for programmers. Big projects! But not stuff sold at retail. The plugin stuff is saying it plays well with the other kids on the playground.

      And you get extras if you pay more.

    • yildolw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Instead of dealing with proprietary rest APIs to manage every third party service you use, you can use a declarative, idempotent format to define infrastructure that’s compatible with all of them

    • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Imagine what happen when you bought a new computer. You’ll install an os, then install all apps you need, copy over all data you need, etc. Now imagine if you have 100 of new computers. The tools hashicorp made basically enable you to create a recipe to perform all this operation over a fleet of servers.

    • fodderoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      They provide tools that make it easier to automate large-scale deployments of servers and applications.

    • dragnet@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 months ago

      And its backed by the Linux Foundation! So it can survive things like Hashicorp’s silly attempt to claim copyright infringement.

  • Nomecks@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I know people hear Hashicorp and instantly think Terraform, but Vault is the real crown jewel here.

  • Howdy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Just as we were building out our terraform deployments… Not a good omen.