HashiCorp has expanded its automation capabilities with new features for Terraform and deepened integration with Ansible, aiming too streamline infrastructure management for organizations adopting multi-cloud strategies. The updates, announced recently, focus on enhancing Terraform’s state management, improving Ansible’s workflow automation, and bolstering security across both platforms.
These advancements arrive as enterprises increasingly grapple with the complexities of managing infrastructure across diverse cloud environments. The tools aim to reduce operational overhead,accelerate deployment cycles,and improve consistency. The changes impact DevOps teams, cloud engineers, and security professionals responsible for provisioning and maintaining infrastructure, with the long-term goal of enabling faster innovation and more reliable operations.
Red Hat has certified HashiCorp Vault Secret Store CSI (Container Storage Interface) for OpenShift, enabling OpenShift pods to directly access secrets stored in Vault. While complete integration is still in progress, according to Armon Dagdar, this certification represents a significant step toward secure secret management within OpenShift environments.
HashiCorp’s Boundary product now features automated password insertion for remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections. This allows users to initiate RDP sessions without needing to no or manually enter passwords, enhancing security and user convenience by having Boundary automatically inject credentials with a single click.