What does Hashicorp do?
Hashicorp sells software that helps developers manage their cloud infrastructure via code-based configuration.
Last updated: March 3, 2025
The TL;DR
Hashicorp sells open-core software that helps developers manage their cloud infrastructure via code-based configuration and access.
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Cloud infrastructure is constantly evolving – larger organizations need to create and modify their resources on the reg
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As organizations move towards multi-cloud and infrastructure breadth increases, managing this stuff is getting more annoying
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Hashicorp provides a suite of open-core tools like Terraform and Vault to make this process easier for developers
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The company makes money by selling packaged solutions to large enterprises (and a little via cloud)
Hashicorp is a beloved and respected (importantly) brand among developers. And with a $5B valuation as of March 2020, they are probably going to make somebody rich.
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The core Hashicorp product: simplifying cloud
You can think of Hashicorp as a layer on top of your infrastructure, cloud or otherwise, agnostic to who you’re actually using – Amazon, Google, both of them, on-prem, whatever. And they help developers create and manage that infrastructure in a simple, scale-friendly way. They have products across several categories – cloud, security, networking, and apps – that abstract the lower level details and make it easier for developers to focus on just building their apps.
Why infrastructure needs managing
To understand Hashicorp , we’ll first need to get a view of what it’s like to manage cloud infrastructure, especially for larger companies. Let’s put on our x-ray goggles and venture int...