HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM

HashiCorp is now an IBM company, with one staffer remarking: "We're actually quite happy for it, most of us sitting in this room at least." The comment came during a briefing at this week's London HashiDays event – the first since the IBM merger went through. While HashiCorp was eager to talk about General Availability of …

[Anonymous Coward]

...if you bring them together, you kind of get the best of both worlds.

Whether it is merging Terraform and Ansible or Hashicorp and IBM, I can't but help feel that you will more likely end up with the worst of both worlds...

[EricM]

Re: ...if you bring them together, you kind of get the best of both worlds.

Strictly speaking, you do not "merge" Ansible and Terraform.

You use 2 different tools separately from each other for 2 different tasks.

If you remember, that "keep it simple" is a primary design target, both work reasonably well.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: ...if you bring them together, you kind of get the best of both worlds.

His quote:

"The way I look at it is Terraform has always been a great provisioning tool, but a terrible configuration management tool. And Ansible is kind of the opposite. It's like, it's a great management tool, but a terrible provisioning tool. So I think if you bring them together, you kind of get the best of both worlds."

actually set up things for one of the early jokes I heard when the Hashicorp buyout was announced:

"IBM have decided to merge Terraform and Ansible - they'll name the new combined software Terrible" lol

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Wait until...

HashiCorp is now an IBM company, with one staffer remarking: "We're actually quite happy for it, most of us sitting in this room at least."

He won't be saying that once IBM introduces Resource Action to them

[trevorde]

Re: Wait until...

Let's not forget the survivors being forced to use Lotus Notes

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh huh

Just like the Sun people stuck around Oracle for not more than 30 seconds past their contracted time.

[Michael Hoffmann]

"We are all quite happy in this room...

... Of course, we used to be a whole building full of people"

-- say the survivors of Hashicorp Hunger Games