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Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 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.