Keynote: The Tao of HashiCorp
summary
HashiCorp explains eight concrete product principles born when the company had five employees and published around 2014 including why Terraform and Vagrant began as bash scripts to test UX. Design starts from workflows not technologies; prefer simple modular composable components with standalone APIs; encode processes as code so teams can codify knowledge as code and automate them. Examples: Terraform’s plan step inspects desired versus current state, Vault is built rather than bolted onto Consul, and Consul lacks immutable versioned KV so pragmatism guides tradeoffs.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:57Vagrant
- 4:19The Tao
- 5:49Workflows not technologies
- 9:02Modular composable
- 10:41Communicate sequential processes
- 11:07Immutability
- 12:31Codification
- 14:00Automation
- 15:21Resilience
- 17:14Pragmatism
- 18:49Conclusion
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