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Terraform 1.6 Makes Testing Framework Generally Available
HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.6 with several new improvements including a new testing framework. Additional improvements include changes to config-driven import, Terraform Cloud CLI workflows, and the Amazon S3 backend. This version marks the first release of Terraform to be under the Business Source License v1.1 (BSL 1.1).
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Nomura Leverages HashiCorp Consul for Microservices Discovery on AWS EC2
With the help of AWS and HashiCorp consultants, Nomura created a solution for service discovery for complex microservices environments. The solution leverages HashiCorp Consul and is based on a hierarchical, rule-based algorithm. It supports discovery by service name, DNS latency, and custom tags.
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Google Cloud Adds Service for Managing Terraform Deployments
Google Cloud announced last week the addition of Terraform as a managed service. The service, known as Infrastructure Manager, manages the deployment of Terraform configurations into Google Cloud. Infrastructure Manager provides an interface for querying the state of the deployment and resources as defined within the configuration.
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HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes Moves into General Availability
HashiCorp has moved the HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes into general availability. This Kubernetes Operator combines Vault's secret management tooling with the Kubernetes Secrets cache. The operator also handles secret rotation and has controllers for the various secret-specific custom resources.
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Terraform Cloud Supports Ephemeral Workspaces in Public Beta
Ephemeral workspaces allows their users to set timeouts to automatically destroy unused resources, reducing infrastructure costs and the effort required for manual resource clean-up. Ephemeral workspaces are now available in public beta on Terraform Cloud Plus.
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HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License for All Products
HashiCorp, the maker of popular open source infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling such as Terraform and Vault, announced last week that it is changing its source code license from MPL 2.0 to the BSL 1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0. The initial community reaction has primarily been negative.
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Terraform Adds Support for Azure Linux, Introduces New CI/CD Tool
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to Terraform and Terraform Cloud. Within Terraform Cloud, there is a new CI/CD pipeline integration tool. Terraform has added support for Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service. The HashiCorp Terraform AWS provider version 5.0 was released with improved support for default tags.
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CDK for Terraform Improves HCL Conversion and Terraform Cloud Interactions
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to the CDK for Terraform (CDKTF). These improvements include enhanced type coercion, iterators support, and function support. Other improvements target the experience of working with CDKTF within Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise. This includes improvements to plan and apply and the automated creation of Terraform workspaces.
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HashiCorp Policy-as-Code Framework Sentinel Adds Multiple Developer Experience Improvements
HashiCorp has released a number of improvements to Sentinel, their policy-as-code framework. The new features include an improved import configuration syntax, a new static import feature, support for named functions, and per-policy parameter values. There are also new helper functions to determine if a value is undefined.
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HashiCorp Consul Improves Envoy Integration, Adds Debugging Tool
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.15, adding new features that improve interacting with Envoy and troubleshooting issues within the service mesh platform. The release introduces improvements to Envoy access logging as well as adding in Consul Envoy extensions. To improve the troubleshooting experience, a new service-to-service troubleshooting tool has been added.
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Passwordless Cloud Deployments with GitHub Actions
GitHub’s CICD service offering, GitHub Actions, now supports the use of Open Identity Connect credentials to authenticate against cloud providers such as Hashicorp Vault, AWS, Azure and GCP without the use of long-lived credentials or passwords.
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Terraform 1.4 Release Adds Native Null Resource and Extends OPA Support
HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.4 with a number of improvements for working within Terraform Cloud environments. These improvements include CLI support for structured run outputs and OPA policy results. Additional improvements include a native replacement for the Null utility provider.
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HashiCorp Vault Improves Multi-Namespace Workflows, Adds Managed Service for Azure
HashiCorp has released version 1.13 of Vault, their secrets and identity management platform. This release includes multi-namespace access workflows, improvements to the Google Cloud secrets engine, usability improvements to MFA, and certificate revocation for cross-cluster management. HashiCorp has also released Vault as a managed service for Microsoft Azure environments.
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HashiCorp Nomad Adds SSO Support and Dynamic Metadata
HashiCorp has released version 1.5 of Nomad, currently in beta. Nomad is their orchestrator platform for deploying and managing both containerized and non-containerized environments. This release adds single sign-on and OIDC support as well as dynamic node metadata, job templates, and UI improvements.
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HashiCorp Boundary Adds Multi-Hop Sessions and Credential Templating
HashiCorp has released version 0.12 of Boundary, their open-source identity-based access management service for infrastructure. This release introduces support for multi-hop sessions removing the need to expose Boundary workers running on private networks. Additional improvements include support for credential injection via Vault, assigning network addresses on targets, and credential templating.