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HashiCorp Expands Unified Lifecycle Management for Hybrid Cloud Operations
HashiCorp commits to deeper integration across the IBM and Red Hat portfolios, including integrations with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift, and support for the IBM Z Mainframe LONDON, June 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today at HashiDays London, its first international user conference as an IBM company, HashiCorp unveiled the vision for partnering with IBM to shape the future of hybrid cloud automation. Despite widespread adoption, most enterprises have not reached cloud maturity — out of the 94% using cloud services, only 20% are receiving full ROI. IBM estimates that one billion new AI applications will emerge by 2028, driving greater cloud complexity and forcing enterprises to make critical decisions about their hybrid cloud strategies. Together with IBM's software automation portfolio, HashiCorp is delivering the automated hybrid cloud platform that unifies infrastructure and security workflows, reduces complexity, and enhances visibility and control. At HashiDays London, HashiCorp announced new products and integrations that expand the capabilities of its Infrastructure Cloud across Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management (ILM and SLM) to help organizations automate hybrid infrastructure delivery, reduce operational risk, and improve security posture throughout the entire application lifecycle. "I'm excited to welcome our global community to HashiDays 2025, where we are sharing our vision for how HashiCorp and IBM will work together to build an automated hybrid cloud platform,' said Armon Dadgar, CTO and Co-Founder, HashiCorp. 'With this vision, we'll deliver a unified control plane that powers hybrid applications, embedding policy, automation, and observability into every layer of the stack, so enterprises can modernize securely, streamline operations, and unlock AI-driven automation at scale.' For more than 10 years, HashiCorp has helped thousands of customers across every geography and industry do cloud right. At HashiDays, customers from EMEA and APAC, including BT Group, Helvetia Insurance, HTX, InfoCert, shiftavenue, Trust Bank, SPH Media, and more, are sharing stories of how they manage cloud infrastructure and security with HashiCorp. Infrastructure Lifecycle Management As customers scale their hybrid strategies with IBM and HashiCorp, Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) continues to be a foundational priority. From building landing zones to enabling secure Day 2+ automation, organizations are using ILM to drive faster delivery and infrastructure resilience across teams and environments. Helvetia Insurance | How Terraform supported an ambitious cloud migration Founded in 1858 and headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Helvetia Insurance Group is a major player in the European insurance market. A few years ago, the cloud enablement team started a complete migration from on-premises datacenters to the public cloud. The ambitious goal: move 200 applications to AWS and Azure within one year. Using HashiCorp Terraform, Helvetia's cloud enablement team created landing zones — fully configured cloud accounts with connectivity and policies — for its internal product teams. They then collaborated with a partner to build modules for hardened virtual machines and other critical resources allowing them to follow a lift-and-shift approach, expediting the migration without sacrificing security or governance. "Terraform was instrumental in achieving our migration goals. Without it, moving 200 applications in about a year would have been impossible. Our teams now have the tools to work faster and with greater confidence," said Matthias Mertens, Cloud Solution Architect, Helvetia Insurance. HashiCorp's ILM capabilities help platform and operations teams accelerate delivery, enforce policy, and optimize infrastructure from Day 0 to Day N. Today's announcements expand support for secure, policy-enforced infrastructure delivery with new features across Terraform, Packer, Nomad, and Waypoint. These updates automate critical workflows that improve team productivity and infrastructure resilience throughout the full lifecycle. Build: Define and provision infrastructure in a standardized, scalable way to avoid configuration drift and manual rework. Terraform ephemeral resources (GA): Protect sensitive values from persisting in state files Sentinel policy library for AWS (GA): Enforce secure-by-default configurations with pre-written policies Terraform + Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Enable orchestration of complex infrastructure workflows with end-to-end infrastructure as code Deploy: Enable repeatable, secure, and policy-aligned delivery of applications and environments. HCP Waypoint actions (GA): Offer Day 2+ lifecycle workflows like rollback and restart, exposed through UI or CLI, to provide an internal developer platform that shields users from the underlying infrastructure complexity Manage: Monitor, update, and deprecate infrastructure components securely and efficiently across teams and environments. HCP module revocation: Prevent use of revoked modules in HCP Terraform as part of module lifecycle management HCP Terraform Premium SKU: Unlock advanced governance and private VCS support Dynamic host volumes (Nomad): Enable more flexible, scalable provisioning of persistent storage across Nomad clients, essential for stateful workloads that require resilient storage operations in dynamic environments Terraform provider for IBM Z: Empower organizations to integrate their mainframe platforms into modern workflows and hybrid cloud strategies Security Lifecycle Management As organizations modernize their infrastructure, their security surface area grows, along with the need to continuously inspect, protect, and govern sensitive data. Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) ensures that identity-based security, secrets management, and access governance are built directly into hybrid workflows, rather than bolted on after deployment. IG Group | Strengthened security while accelerating delivery with HCP Vault 'As a security leader, my job is to reduce risk for my company without slowing down our development teams,' said Andrew Blooman, Platform Security Team Lead, IG Group. 'Over the past few years, HashiCorp has helped us achieve these goals as we adopted multiple products for a number of use cases. We started with Community Edition versions of Vault, Nomad, and Consul, used HashiCorp Professional Services to accelerate this deployment, and added HCP Vault this year. We now have 63 teams onboarded to HCP Vault, with a centralized GitOps workflow allowing for version control, change approvals, and an audit log of newly onboarded teams.' HashiCorp's SLM capabilities help security and compliance teams safeguard sensitive data, enforce access policies, and maintain governance from Day 0 through Day N. These updates provide proactive tools for visibility, access control, and cryptographic assurance across hybrid environments, and reflect continued investment in helping teams move faster without compromising control. Inspect: Identify and address potential security gaps before infrastructure or applications reach production. HCP Vault Radar (GA): Detect and remediate unmanaged secrets and credential sprawl across environments Consul 1.21 (GA): Simplify external service monitoring architecture for enhanced observability and service registration in complex environments Protect: Enforce identity-based access and secure application communication across environments. Boundary transparent sessions (GA): Provide secure access to systems without altering user workflows Vault and Consul integrations for Red Hat OpenShift: Streamline secure access across containerized workloads Bring your own DNS to HCP Vault Dedicated: Improve connectivity and security posture in regulated environments, available now in AWS and coming soon to Azure Govern: Automate governance of credentials, policies, and encryption standards across systems and teams. Vault Enterprise 1.19: Includes post-quantum cryptography updates, constrained certificate authorities, and automated root password rotation Together with IBM, HashiCorp is delivering the unified lifecycle foundation that modern enterprises need to scale securely and confidently in a hybrid world. Recent announcements, including Terraform Enterprise support for IBM Z and Vault Enterprise support for IBM Z and LinuxONE, bring HashiCorp's ILM and SLM expertise to the mainframe, further enabling hybrid cloud automation that stretches from on-premises to private and public cloud. For more information and detailed coverage of all Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management announcements at HashiDays 2025, please visit the HashiCorp blog. About HashiDaysHashiDays is taking place in London on June 3 and Singapore on July 22. During the multi-city event, attendees will hear from community members, partners, and customers about the latest advances in HashiCorp's cloud infrastructure products. The HashiDays London keynote and morning sessions will be available to watch via live stream. The live stream link will be shared on the HashiDays homepage 30 minutes before the keynote begins at 9:30 a.m. BST. About HashiCorpHashiCorp, an IBM company, helps organizations automate hybrid cloud environments with Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management. HashiCorp offers The Infrastructure Cloud on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) for managed cloud services, as well as self-hosted enterprise offerings and community source-available products. For more information, visit All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Red Hat, the Red Hat logo, OpenShift and Ansible are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Media and analyst contactmedia@ in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Techday NZ
21-05-2025
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Red Hat brings OpenShift Virtualization preview to Azure users
Red Hat has launched the public preview of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift, giving organisations a new option for migrating and managing virtual machines in hybrid cloud environments. This release introduces Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a self-managed operator included with Azure Red Hat OpenShift. The solution is designed to streamline the migration of virtual machines from existing platforms to Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which supports both VM and container-based workloads. It targets organisations seeking to move away from legacy virtualization approaches and embrace a more flexible, scalable infrastructure. Chris Wright, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Red Hat, highlighted the importance of secure and adaptable infrastructure options for organisations undergoing digital transformation. "As organizations continue to modernize and move away from legacy virtualization solutions, it is critical to choose a secure computing foundation for the future that can adapt to their current and evolving multi-infrastructure environments. Building upon our extensive history of collaboration and joint engineering efforts with Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization running on Azure Red Hat OpenShift delivers more consistent orchestration for VMs and containers alike, setting organizations on a clear path to modern application development and deployment," said Wright. Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a managed application platform jointly managed and supported by Red Hat and Microsoft. It aims to reduce the complexity associated with infrastructure management, allowing IT teams to concentrate resources on innovation and modernisation. The integration of OpenShift Virtualization supports hybrid applications by delivering a unified environment for both virtual machines and containers, facilitating cloud-native strategies and application modernisation efforts. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers several capabilities. It helps organisations accelerate the migration and scaling of existing VM workloads with migration and automation tools, including Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. These features aim to simplify migration, limit disruption, and enable faster moves onto modern infrastructure. The platform provides a unified view for operations that allows for seamless management of both VMs and containers across hybrid cloud environments. Automated deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters are intended to further reduce operational complexity and risk. OpenShift Virtualization enables customers to build, modernise, and deploy applications at scale using a Kubernetes-based approach. This move is positioned to hasten cloud-native modernisation goals. With the platform, organisations can utilise modern application development tools and processes for their VM-based applications, helping to bring legacy workloads up to date with current technology standards. The solution aims to optimise resources by improving DevOps productivity, decreasing application deployment time, and right-sizing VMs based on workload requirements. These features are intended to support efficiency and adaptation as organisations' needs continue to evolve. Brendan Burns, Corporate Vice President for Azure Compute at Microsoft, commented on the collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat and emphasised its impact on organisations moving to the cloud. "As customers modernize and move their apps from traditional virtual-machine-based fabrics that are on-premises to modern Kubernetes platforms, some components still need to run on traditional virtual machines for a while. To address this, Microsoft and Red Hat are collaborating to bring open source innovation from the KubeVirt project into Azure Red Hat OpenShift. What I'm most excited about is how this enables customers to add virtualization capabilities to Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which allows them to modernize at their own pace, and get the best return on investment as they transition to the cloud," said Burns. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is immediately available in public preview as a self-managed operator on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. The offering permits organisations to apply their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment and participate in the Azure Migration and Modernization Program, as well as leverage the Azure Hybrid Benefit to reuse existing on-premise licences for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows. The public preview makes Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization available to organisations looking to modernise their critical VM infrastructure while building toward future cloud-native application development.
