2 years ago

Category: Terraform, Hashicorp, encryption, github

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-cloud-platform (HCP) is a popular way to use HashiCorp’s open source tools as cloud services, without the overhead of installation, scaling, or lifecycle management. In this blog post, we will highlight some of HCP’s newest enhancements based on your requests, including overall improvements such as new locations in Singapore and Sydney, multi-factor authentication, updates to the HCP Terraform provider, HashiCorp virtual network improvements, new organization and user management capabilities, and a public changelog. There have also been new integrations and configuration options for HCP Vault, simplified onboarding and cost estimation for HCP Consul, and the ability to track and automate build updates across HashiCorp Packer and Terraform workflows.

Many users are looking to use HCP Consul for service discovery and as a service mesh on popular AWS runtimes.

HCP Consul and HCP Vault are cloud versions of popular open source tools.