Adam FitzGerald

Infrastructure thinking shows up everywhere. Bevel Work used Terraform to automate factory building in Factorio, wiring mods into Archon for external control, resource gathering, and production flows. Same principles. Different environment. ibm.co/6011DkKWF

Databricks CEO @alighodsi describes the difficulties of building a business around open source: "You have to hit two home runs, consecutively." "Your first home run - and you're banking on hitting that home run - is that your open source project takes over the world. Everybody wants to download it." If you don't hit that home run, Ali says, you just shot yourself in the foot. You just gave away your IP and got nothing back for it. But even if you hit this home run, you still don't have a monetizable business. You still can't make any money. So you have to hit the second home run: "You need a 10x innovation on top of the open source. That's the proprietary value you'll provide companies. That's why they'll come to you. Otherwise, they can get the open source anywhere." If you don't hit the second home run, the hyperscalers pick up your open source model, and they offer it for almost-free. "Getting into open source and monetizing is not an easy sport. Preferably don't get into it, because you might get hurt."

New sessions at this year's HashiConf just dropped! 🚨 Now on the HashiConf website, see sessions like... ☁️ New sessions for the Cloud Engineering track 👩‍🎓 New sessions for the Education track and Learn Labs 📝 Certification time slots Learn more here: bit.ly/4jenHAa

At AWS Summit NYC, HashiCorp announced new innovations for enterprise agentic systems and AI-powered automation with Terraform and Vault products: - Vault and Vault Radar MCP servers - Enhancements to the Terraform MCP server - Featured in the new AWS Agentic Marketplace and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Learn more: bit.ly/4nS4HuZ

We’re bringing expert voices to the stage at #HashiDays Singapore, each sharing practical ways to scale and secure your cloud strategy. 🔐 Security at scale – David Mills (HashiCorp) How to govern risk, automate compliance, and simplify lifecycle management with Vault, Boundary, and HCP. ⚙️ Automation wins – Cole Morrison (HashiCorp) Why small tweaks to Terraform, Packer, and Waypoint can make a big difference in scale and reliability. 🛡️ Policy as code in action – Ritesh Hegde (SPH Media) A real-world look at how Sentinel helps enforce security and compliance before anything gets deployed. Cloud strategy isn’t one-size-fits-all — but these talks offer a few solid blueprints to start from. 🎟️ Join us: bit.ly/3R8ky9K

Find it. Fix it. Secure it. 🔍 HCP Vault Radar is now generally available, making it easy to import unmanaged secrets directly into Vault for centralized protection. Scan Git repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration platforms to detect exposed secrets before they become risks. Learn more: bit.ly/3GzamF1

Secure your one-day pass to… 💜 community 🤝 connections ☁️ & the cloud Register for #HashiDays. bit.ly/41Ke05Q

I’m excited for @HashiCorp to officially join the @IBM family! I shared my thoughts in a blog post here: hashicorp.com/en/blog/hashic…

This is a GREAT certification. If you use Terraform, even if you use it every day, this is a challenge! It challenges you around the edges - yes, you already know your workflow and how to do all the things you already do. But studying for it also makes you learn the parts you DON'T use every day. (Looks like I need to renew mine this year!) credly.com/badges/cac148b…

#HashiTalks 2025 has just passed the half way mark of the 24-hour stream, but we have no intention plans of slowing down just yet. Meet the next set of Emcees @alexisworking & @JColeMorrison along with our friends providing ASL interpretation at @convorelay Tune in live at: hashi.co/hashitalks-2025

The #HashiTalks livestream is beginning now! We will be live for the next 24 hours. Here to kick-off the event are HashiTalks Emcees: #HashiCorpAmbassador @punkdodevops and Guy Barros, HashiCorp Staff Solutions Engineer. Join us here: hashi.co/hashitalks-2025

#HashiTalks 2025 is just two weeks away. Join us for the 7th annual 24-hour virtual event where we follow the sun exploring unique use cases of HashiCorp tools from the global community. View the schedule at hashi.co/hashitalks-2025.

#HashiDays Early Bird registration is now open! 🗓️ Join us on 3 June in London for the 2025 edition of HashiCorp's regional cloud conference. bit.ly/4jNDbN1

Scaling your team? Facing provisioning challenges? Join the AWS Terraform Solution Series Immersion Day to see how Terraform simplifies workflows for AWS customers. Sign up here: bit.ly/40G0RLI

We're refreshing the HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate exam! The new Vault Associate 003 reflects the latest advancements in Vault, preparing you with the skills to succeed. 🔑 What’s New? Expanded topics, including two new exam areas Coverage of Vault 1.16 features New content for HCP Vault The updated exam goes live on January 18—advanced scheduling is open now. 👉 Learn more and schedule your exam today: bit.ly/4gK3sd3

Thanks @antirez. I'm going to share this whenever anyone scoffs at me and says "`cat` performance doesn't matter". This stuff matters, it has real productivity implications. I smiled at this because we worked hard on this and I'm glad someone I respect so much noticed. For what it's worth I gave a lightning talk on some parts of how we do this: youtu.be/cPaGkEesw20?t=… (timestamp link) Usually the "scoffers" will be snarky and say: you should pipe it to a file or pager. Sometimes yes, but if you don't have to... why? Also, I don't know about you but I've routinely accidentally dumped a ton of text to my terminal unintentionally. With Ghostty it's just a total non-issue. Love this.

We're refreshing the HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate exam! The new Vault Associate 003 reflects the latest advancements in Vault, preparing you with the skills to succeed. 🔑 What’s New? Expanded topics, including two new exam areas Coverage of Vault 1.16 features New content for HCP Vault The updated exam goes live on January 18—advanced scheduling is open now. 👉 Learn more and schedule your exam today: bit.ly/4gK3sd3

Join the HashiCorp Ambassador community. 🌟 The submission window is now open for the HashiCorp Ambassador program, which recognizes individuals for their knowledge sharing, mentorship, and contributions to the community. Applications and nominations are open through January 31, 2025. Learn how to get involved: bit.ly/3ZFWaA2

The new HashiCorp #Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional with AWS exam is here! If you're a cloud engineer with Terraform experience, take the exam, validate your skills, and take your career to the next level. Learn more and schedule your exam on HashiCorp Developer today. 🚀 bit.ly/4eEzN3f

Manage #AWS secrets securely with HashiCorp #Terraform 1.10 🌟 The latest release introduces ephemeral values, ensuring sensitive data like Secrets Manager values are never stored in state or plan files. Explore this and other updates: bit.ly/3Zom8sK