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Enhancing Azure deployments with AzureRM and AzAPI Terraform providers
Enhancing Azure deployments with AzureRM and AzAPI Terraform providers

This blog compares the AzureRM and AzAPI Terraform providers, offering insights on when to use each for optimal Azure infrastructure management.

Integrating Azure DevOps pipelines with HashiCorp Vault
Integrating Azure DevOps pipelines with HashiCorp Vault

Use Microsoft Azure DevOps’ workload identity federation (WIF) feature to seamlessly integrate Azure DevOps pipelines with HashiCorp Vault

Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0 adds provider-defined functions
Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0 adds provider-defined functions

Version 4.0 of the HashiCorp Terraform AzureRM provider brings support for provider-defined functions and improved resource provider registration.

Just-in-time approval workflow with Boundary and Azure
Just-in-time approval workflow with Boundary and Azure

Boundary’s rich partner ecosystem extends its capabilities with Microsoft Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for temporary access based on request and approval workflows.

Solving the data security challenge for AI builders
Solving the data security challenge for AI builders

This demo highlights the potential risks of using contextual data with LLMs and demonstrates how HashiCorp Vault can integrate with Pinecone to tackle AI data security challenges.

A golden path to secure cloud provisioning with The Infrastructure Cloud
A golden path to secure cloud provisioning with The Infrastructure Cloud

Golden patterns for infrastructure and security automation workflows lie at the core of The Infrastructure Cloud. Here’s how to implement them using HashiCorp Cloud Platform services.

Secrets sync now available on Vault Enterprise to manage secrets sprawl
Secrets sync now available on Vault Enterprise to manage secrets sprawl

Secrets sync is a new feature in HashiCorp Vault that facilitates centralized management, governance, and control of secrets for multiple external secret managers.

Build secure AI applications on Azure with HashiCorp Terraform and Vault
Build secure AI applications on Azure with HashiCorp Terraform and Vault

Learn how to deploy, secure, and enable AI-based applications with Terraform and Vault.

HashiCorp Vault 1.15 adopts Microsoft Workload Identity Federation
HashiCorp Vault 1.15 adopts Microsoft Workload Identity Federation

HashiCorp Vault 1.15 improves security by adopting Microsoft Workload Identity Federation for applications and services in Azure, Google Cloud, and GitHub.

Accelerating AI adoption on Azure with Terraform
Accelerating AI adoption on Azure with Terraform

Learn how to use Terraform to scale the adoption of artificial intelligence in a Microsoft Azure environment.

Version 2 of the Packer Azure plugin is now available
Version 2 of the Packer Azure plugin is now available

The Packer Azure plugin has migrated to the HashiCorp Go Azure SDK to address known Azure SDK deprecations and provide a consistent foundation for managing Azure infrastructure.

Manage post-deployment Microsoft Azure policy operations with Terraform
Manage post-deployment Microsoft Azure policy operations with Terraform

Learn how to manage post-deployment operations with HashiCorp Terraform and Microsoft Azure.

8 Terraform continuous validation use cases for AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure
8 Terraform continuous validation use cases for AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure

Learn how you can use Terraform check blocks and continuous validation with AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure services.

Terraform adds support for Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service
Terraform adds support for Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service

Learn how HashiCorp Terraform supports the deployment of Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Deploying securely into Azure architecture with HCP Terraform and HCP Vault
Deploying securely into Azure architecture with HCP Terraform and HCP Vault

Learn how to build a secure infrastructure as code workflow with HCP Terraform dynamic provider credentials, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and HCP Vault.

Building a secure Azure reference architecture with Terraform
Building a secure Azure reference architecture with Terraform

Learn how to use HashiCorp Terraform to deploy Azure resources using security best practices and policy as code.

HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure End of Life
HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure End of Life

HCS on Azure has been deprecated. HCP Consul on Azure is the preferred way to run your HashiCorp Consul clusters on Microsoft Azure.

HCP Vault on Microsoft Azure is now generally available
HCP Vault on Microsoft Azure is now generally available

HCP Vault on Microsoft Azure is now generally available and supports production workloads running on Azure.

HCP Vault on Microsoft Azure Now in Public Beta
HCP Vault on Microsoft Azure Now in Public Beta

In addition to its availability on AWS, HCP Vault can now be deployed on Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

Industrialized Workflows - Using Microsoft CAF Patterns and Terraform
Industrialized Workflows - Using Microsoft CAF Patterns and Terraform

Learn how even non-technical operators can use HashiCorp Terraform Cloud to deploy Azure resources based on Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) templates.

HCP Consul on Azure is Now Generally Available
HCP Consul on Azure is Now Generally Available

HCP Consul on Microsoft Azure is now generally available and capable of supporting production workloads running on Azure. Get started today with a secure, resilient service mesh for connecting applications running in Azure.

Configuring Azure Application Gateway with Consul-Terraform-Sync
Configuring Azure Application Gateway with Consul-Terraform-Sync

Synchronize HCP Consul services as backend address pools for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway using Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS).

Announcing Azure Stack Hub Provider 1.0
Announcing Azure Stack Hub Provider 1.0

The new HashiCorp Terraform Azure Stack provider 1.0 includes several provider behavior improvements, 19 new resources, and supports a new service for Key Vault.

HashiCorp Wins Microsoft Azure OSS US Partner of the Year for 2022
HashiCorp Wins Microsoft Azure OSS US Partner of the Year for 2022

HashiCorp has been chosen as the 2022 Microsoft US (MSUS) Partner Award winner OSS on Azure and a 2022 Microsoft OSS on Azure Partner of the Year Award finalist.

HCP Consul on Azure to go GA, Plus More Consul News
HCP Consul on Azure to go GA, Plus More Consul News

HCP Consul is becoming generally available on Azure, Consul API Gateway version 0.3 is going GA, and Consul 1.13 is due later this year.

Terraform AzureRM 3.0 Brings Enhanced Azure Function Support
Terraform AzureRM 3.0 Brings Enhanced Azure Function Support

AzureRM 3.0 brings significant parity between the Azure provider for Terraform and Azure services currently available. Review the breaking changes as you prepare to upgrade.

Integrating Azure AD Identity with HashiCorp Vault — Part 3: Azure Managed Identity Auth via Azure Auth Method
Integrating Azure AD Identity with HashiCorp Vault — Part 3: Azure Managed Identity Auth via Azure Auth Method

Learn how to achieve machine authentication to HashiCorp Vault with the Azure auth method using Microsoft Azure managed identity — and set it up with Terraform.

Integrating Azure AD Identity with HashiCorp Vault — Part 2: Vault OIDC Auth Method
Integrating Azure AD Identity with HashiCorp Vault — Part 2: Vault OIDC Auth Method

Learn how to configure HashiCorp Vault’s OIDC auth method to use Azure as an identity provider.

Integrating Azure AD Identity with HashiCorp Vault — Part 1: Azure Application Auth via OIDC
Integrating Azure AD Identity with HashiCorp Vault — Part 1: Azure Application Auth via OIDC

Learn how to achieve user authentication to HashiCorp Vault with OIDC using Microsoft Azure AD as a central identity provider.

Build a Quick AKS Cluster the Easy Way with Terraform Cloud
Build a Quick AKS Cluster the Easy Way with Terraform Cloud

Find providers in HashiCorp Terraform Cloud to help quickly spin up Kubernetes containers in Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service.

Go Big or Go Small? Building in Azure CAF with Terraform Cloud
Go Big or Go Small? Building in Azure CAF with Terraform Cloud

Learn about the enterprise scale and Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) Terraform modules for Azure adoption, and get a demo of the CAF module.

HashiCorp Vault Use Cases and Best Practices on Azure
HashiCorp Vault Use Cases and Best Practices on Azure

Learn how Vault can help you build zero trust security on Microsoft Azure with five common use cases and five best practices.

Announcing Terraform AzureAD Provider 2.0
Announcing Terraform AzureAD Provider 2.0

Terraform AzureAD provider Version 2.0 exclusively uses the Microsoft Graph API and has numerous schema and behavioral changes to align with the new API.

Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 3
Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 3

HashiCorp Consul and Nomad use Azure managed identities to authenticate against Azure in order to read tags and manage service principal information.

Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 2
Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 2

Secrets management with HashiCorp Vault can use Microsoft Azure managed identities to ease the operational burden of Vault cluster availability: Part 2 in a series.

Terraform AzureAD Provider Now Supports Microsoft Graph
Terraform AzureAD Provider Now Supports Microsoft Graph

Version 1.5.0 of the Terraform AzureAD provider lets you manage your Azure Active Directory resources using the Microsoft Graph API.

Building Azure Resources with TypeScript Using the CDK for Terraform
Building Azure Resources with TypeScript Using the CDK for Terraform

Learn a quick method for getting started with the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for Terraform using TypeScript as infrastructure code and provisioning on Microsoft Azure.

Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 1
Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 1

See how HashiCorp Terraform and Packer can leverage of Microsoft Azure’s Managed Identities.

HashiCorp Highlights for Microsoft Ignite
HashiCorp Highlights for Microsoft Ignite

Read our recap of the recent updates to HCS on Azure and the latest integrations between Azure services and HashiCorp Consul, Terraform, and Vault.

Introducing Federation on HashiCorp Consul Service
Introducing Federation on HashiCorp Consul Service

HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure now offers federation between HCS datacenters as a preview feature.

Managing HCS with Terraform Cloud
Managing HCS with Terraform Cloud

HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure can be launched directly from the Azure Portal, but you can also manage HCS using Terraform Cloud.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure Production Tier
Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure Production Tier

We are pleased to announce the availability of the HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure Production tier. The new offering enables a user to deploy production grade Consul clusters directly from the Microsoft Azure portal.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure General Availability
Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure General Availability

We are pleased to announce that HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure is now generally available. HCS on Azure enables a team to provision HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters directly through the Microsoft Azure portal. HCS on Azure clusters are preconfigured for production workloads, enabling a team to easily leverage Consul to secure the application networks within their Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or VM-based environments while offloading the operations to HashiCorp.

Using the Terraform Foundational Policies Library with Microsoft Azure
Using the Terraform Foundational Policies Library with Microsoft Azure

This demo explores how to use the Terraform Foundational Policies Library to apply pre-written policies, in accordance with the Center for Internet Security benchmarks, on a HashiCorp configuration for Microsoft Azure.

HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure Public Beta
HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure Public Beta

We are pleased to announce that HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure is now in public beta. HCS on Azure enables a team to provision HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters directly through the Azure Marketplace and easily leverage Consul’s service discovery and service mesh features within their Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or VM-based application environments.

Migrating Application Traffic between VMs and Kubernetes with HCS on Azure
Migrating Application Traffic between VMs and Kubernetes with HCS on Azure

Learn how to migrate application workloads from VMs into Kubernetes by leveraging Consul and its L7 Traffic Management features. By establishing a common service mesh between both runtime platforms, we enable the ability to take a policy0driven approach to security and application communications.

Exploring HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: Service Mesh with VM Workloads
Exploring HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: Service Mesh with VM Workloads

In our previous blog we showed how to get started with deploying HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure and joining it to an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. In the video above, we show how we can take Virtual Machines hosted in Microsoft Azure and bring them into the same Consul service mesh that our AKS cluster joined previously. This configuration currently requires connectivity between the Consul client nodes in the AKS and the Virtual Machine networks.

Introduction to HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure with AKS
Introduction to HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure with AKS

Are you a HashiCorp tools practitioner? Do you want to help shape the direction of HashiCorp Consul running in public cloud? HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure is now available!

Announcing HashiCorp Terraform  AzureRM 2.0
Announcing HashiCorp Terraform AzureRM 2.0

Along with our partner Microsoft we are proud to announce the release of version 2.0.0 of the Terraform AzureRM Provider.

Announcing HashiCorp Terraform Cloud and Enterprise Support for Azure DevOps
Announcing HashiCorp Terraform Cloud and Enterprise Support for Azure DevOps

Today we're pleased to announce Azure DevOps Services support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud and HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise. This support includes the ability to link your Terraform Cloud and Enterprise workspaces to Azure DevOps-backed VCS repositories.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure
Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure

We are pleased to announce the new HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure, which is now in private beta. HCS on Azure enables Microsoft Azure customers to natively provision HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters in any Azure region directly through the Azure Marketplace.

Vault Learning Resources: 1.1, Caching, Kubernetes, Unseal, Azure, Replication
Vault Learning Resources: 1.1, Caching, Kubernetes, Unseal, Azure, Replication

Learn to use features of Vault 1.1 including agent caching, replication, auto-unseal, and Kubernetes integration.

HashiCorp Terraform Provider for Azure Stack
HashiCorp Terraform Provider for Azure Stack

Announcing the new HashiCorp Terraform Provider for Azure Stack. Azure Stack enables organizations to extend the capabilities of Azure to their private, on-premise environments.

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with AKS and Terraform
Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with AKS and Terraform

We are going to take a look at how we can create a Kubernetes cluster in Azure using the azurerm_kubernetes_cluster resource.

Introducing the Azure Terraform Resource Provider
Introducing the Azure Terraform Resource Provider

Now available, the new Azure Terraform Resource Provider makes it easier for Azure users to provision third party services in the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) using Terraform Providers.

Announcing HashiCorp Private Terraform Enterprise on AWS, Azure, GCP, and VMware
Announcing HashiCorp Private Terraform Enterprise on AWS, Azure, GCP, and VMware

We’re pleased to announce HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise is now available to run as a private installation on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and VMware.

 Deprecating the Microsoft Azure (legacy ASM) Terraform Provider
Deprecating the Microsoft Azure (legacy ASM) Terraform Provider

We're announcing the immediate deprecation of the Terraform provider for Azure ASM (Azure Service Management) in favor of the newer Azure Resource Manager (ARM) provider. The Azure ARM provider will be renamed to "Azure".

HashiCorp Extends Microsoft Collaboration to Help Terraform Users Adopt Azure
HashiCorp Extends Microsoft Collaboration to Help Terraform Users Adopt Azure

HashiCorp announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to deepen support for the provisioning of Microsoft Azure cloud services with HashiCorp Terraform.

Azure Resource Manager Support for Packer and Terraform
Azure Resource Manager Support for Packer and Terraform

We are excited to announce Azure Resource Manager (ARM) support for HashiCorp’s core infrastructure configuration and provisioning tools, Packer and Terraform. Now all of HashiCorp's open source tools - Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault, Otto - support best practices for application delivery on Microsoft Azure. HashiCorp tools focus on workflows, not technologies. Users of our tools can apply the same workflow for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, application maintenance, and security across all their infrastructure — both on-premises and in the cloud. As a result, enterprises save time on infrastructure management so they can commit more resources towards solving business-critical needs. Read on to learn more about the HashiCorp workflow for infrastructure automation on Microsoft Azure.