IBM HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP)

My main use case for HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is that we've been using Azure, and we recently switched to HashiCorp because of the service and ease of ticketing systems.

A specific example of how I'm using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) in my day-to-day work is that we usually handle computers, so we are able to visualize it with the dashboards on the cloud.

The best features HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) offers are probably the ease of usability, the observability, and the transparency.

When I mention observability and transparency, those features help me in my work by keeping everything in my view; I don't need to juggle between different platforms, as everything serves as a one unified solution. About transparency, things are crystal clear and laid out openly, making it much easier for consumers like us who manage tons of devices all in one unified platform.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) has positively impacted my organization by making the whole problem-solving process easier, as if there are any ticket issues, things get resolved more easily compared to our previous services.

Issues get resolved much more quickly now, with most of these solutions being almost readily available, and if escalated to a support team, we get a quicker response time, as opposed to the previous solution which involved a lot of back and forth and consumed a lot more time.

I am not entirely sure about how HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) could improve, as I don't have anything on top of my head at the moment.

I have been using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) for the last six months.

I have not encountered any updates or upgrades with HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) yet because we are pretty new users.

Issues get resolved much more quickly now, with most of these solutions being almost readily available, and if escalated to a support team, we get a quicker response time, as opposed to the previous solution which involved a lot of back and forth and consumed a lot more time.

I did not previously use a different solution, so I cannot speak to that.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is deployed in my organization using a hybrid cloud setup.

We use AWS cloud services with our hybrid cloud setup.

The learning curve when I first started using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) has been drastically rewarding, as the team was kind enough to help us lay out the foundation and map through how to proceed with the transition.

I cannot talk about money, but I can certainly mention that we have saved time because the simplification of the UI and the easier ticketing system makes it easier.

I was not part of the team that handled the pricing, setup cost, and licensing, so I don't handle that.

We did not evaluate other options before choosing HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

I manage user roles and permissions within HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) by finding it straightforward, as it is laid out easily for people to adapt.

I monitor the health or performance of our resources within HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), but I am not aware of a specific dashboard or tool that I rely on, as I do not personally take care of the health monitoring tool for HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) integrates with other tools or platforms we use in our organization by having most of our tools as in-house tools which we just integrate on top of the layer of what we use.

I would rate this review a 9.

My main use case for HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is tokenization and auditing.

I use HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) to ensure that the data is tokenized and the access authentication and authorization is managed through HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) to ensure that the right people have the right access to it.

There are no other ways I'm using it or benefits I've noticed beyond what I've mentioned.

The best feature HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) offers, in my experience, is organization.

When I mention organization as a top feature of HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), I mean the role and permission structure.

Permissions are my main feature of interest regarding the capabilities of HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) and any other features such as automation, integration, or security.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) has positively impacted my organization by ensuring that the data is tokenized and the user access is appropriately assigned.

I don't have enough experience with HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) yet to have any recommendations for improvement at this time, but I would suggest speeding up the process.

I have been using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) for a couple of years.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is stable.

I did not notice any difference in HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) regarding scalability, and I didn't notice any downtime.

I've not interacted with the customer support team for HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

I have not used any other solution prior to HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

I'm not sure if I purchased HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) through the AWS Marketplace, as this is a business decision and I'm just auditing against it.

It's too early to tell if I've seen a return on investment.

I have no experience in pricing, setup cost, or licensing with HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

I did not evaluate other options before choosing HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

For my team, that process has no challenge as it's a quick way to identify the access control, making it a good win.

I have seen specific outcomes such as time saved managing permission and also a reduction in the management of access.

If you need to protect data, HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) should be a solution to look at.

I would rate this product an 8 overall.

My main use case for HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is that it serves as a password vault for privileged accounts. I use HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) mainly for privileged account management, utilizing HashiCorp Vaults to give appropriate users access to perform administrative functions.

We decide which users get access based on their roles, essentially on their job titles and the teams they work on. They are typically performing a lot of database administration work with HashiCorp Vault.

The best features HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) offers are the vaults and the ease of accessing the passwords within the vaults; I believe that is probably the most useful.

The ease of accessing passwords and using Vault has positively impacted my team's workflow and productivity, as it changes the way my team handles sensitive credentials. Due to data security audits that we have performed, this is a much more SOX compliant and regulation compliant method of managing passwords.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) has helped with SOX compliance and audits by providing a more secure way for auditors to track whether passwords are in line with company policy and properly protected, mainly as a result of security audits. This has led to measurable outcomes including reduced audit times.

I think HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) can be improved by creating a module for audit to make access to logs easier and to improve the auditability of who is accessing which vaults at which time and being able to generate that information in a report.

I have been using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) for a year.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is stable.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP)'s scalability is very good; it has been very easy to scale.

The customer support has been good so far; I have no complaints.

Positive

Before HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), I was using a manual process of sharing passwords.

I have seen a return on investment, specifically time saved. I do not have an estimate of how much time my team has saved since implementing HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP); those metrics are not available to me.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very positive.

I did not evaluate any other options before choosing HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

My advice for others looking into HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is to examine your use cases for it and be sure to make any comparisons to other relevant, comparable products. My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. I would rate this product a seven out of ten.

My main use case for HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is that we used HashiCorp Consul and HashiCorp Vault. HashiCorp Vault helped us save our secured passwords for our DevOps platform, and we integrated it with our Puppet, which is a configuration management system, as well as our Linux system. All the passwords we secured using HashiCorp Vault, and also for the console, HashiCorp Consul, to integrate with our team channel platform.

A specific example of how I use HashiCorp Vault in my DevOps workflow is that we use it to template our credentials. In the pipeline, we have the templated flow, and in the continuous integration and deployment, HashiCorp Vault is used as a tool to retrieve the password. HashiCorp Consul serves as a front-end user case for our Slack team channel.

Regarding my main use case or other ways I have used HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), I believe this covers the main one or two things. While working in the bank two years back, I brought HashiCorp products for the same use, and I also used HashiCorp products when I worked for another organization called Focus, which is a telecom company. I believe HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) could be useful for any organization with a DevOps environment, and HashiCorp Vault could be one of the secured ways to save your credentials.

The best features that HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) offers include its HashiCorp language, which is very easy to use, and you can do whatever the organization requires. For DevOps integration, HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is very easy to integrate, and I found the learning curve not hard at all. There is a lot of online documentation and learning materials available, making it quite helpful. Additionally, HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) has two versions: one is professional, and another one is a free version online that you can use as open-source. There are also plenty of documentation and online forums where you can chat with specialists in HashiCorp products.

HashiCorp HCL language makes things easier for my team because it is very straightforward and any programmer can understand it. The syntax is easy, and there is a lot of documentation as well as learning materials available online that can be very useful.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) has positively impacted my organization, leading to a significant budget saving and allowing us to integrate everything the way we wanted. Those positive impacts include a definite plus in terms of security and easier integration. Regarding cost savings, it was a big win for us as the organization has saved a lot. We did not need to have another third-party product, which is often expensive in the market, and the templating of any credentials and passwords was easy to manage in one place.

I am not a specialized HashiCorp engineer, so I cannot make any comments on how HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) can be improved. From a user perspective, I think all aspects are covered in HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). The user interface is very good, support resources are available, and all documentation is really handy, so I do not see any improvements required.

I have been using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) for the last five to seven years.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is very stable.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is really scalable.

Customer support was great.

Neutral

Previously, we used KeePass as our solution to save credentials, which was merely an application where we mounted the database on our shared drive. It was not a secure way to save the credentials, hence the transition.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was easy. The pricing and setup were easy because it was very straightforward to understand.

We have seen a return on investment, specifically regarding money saved. Although I cannot comment on how much money was saved since I was not involved in the financial decisions, in terms of time, we saved a lot. Typically, the implementation time for other projects could stretch to six months, but we achieved everything within three months, marking a significant three-month savings in deploying a new big project.

I would highly recommend HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). The vendor can contact me if they have any questions or comments about my review. I found this interview really good, and I do not think any changes are needed for the future. I gave this review a rating of ten.

My main use case for HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is to deploy infrastructure. We are a managed cloud, and we use HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) to deploy GCP infrastructure, AWS infrastructure, or Azure infrastructure. We also have some workloads for colocation, and in the past, I used HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) to manage VMware.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is used and complemented for doing internal provisioning with Ansible. HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is not very useful for configuring inside the machines, but for the infrastructure, it is an amazing tool.

The best features HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) offers are Infrastructure as Code, and it keeps everything in one place and shares all the configurations in the cloud. We can share configurations with the teams that can review and deploy from everywhere in the world.

Sharing configurations with my team has helped our workflow and collaboration because we are managing a big infrastructure of 2,500 machines. This is not a task for a single person, so we need to share the configuration with different teams. There are some teams that are very specialized; for example, security can manage HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) only for the security part, and infrastructure and storage manage their relative parts. This allows us to have segregation in the configuration and deployment of the infrastructure.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) has positively impacted my organization by helping us reduce the number of mistakes made in the infrastructure, and we can keep all the standards. We can show to the auditors how we manage the infrastructure, and we can get and manage all the recommendations and keep track of the recommendation and implementation of all the recommendations for the auditors.

If HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) could implement a way to configure the machines internally, and not only the cloud infrastructure provisioning and the boxes, and if they also added a way that we can easily configure the package or deploy applications inside the boxes, it would be fantastic. At the moment, I require another product to do this configuration.

I have been using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) for the last seven years while working with HashiCorp and Terraform, either in the cloud or private deployment.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is stable in my experience. I have not had any issues with the downtime. It was available during business hours and when I required it, and I never experienced an outage in the platform.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) scalability is good and it worked very well and performed exactly as expected. Sometimes the scripts take a long time to execute, but this is the way that we write the scripts and it is not related to HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

Before HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), I basically used deployment by hand. We started doing automation seriously with HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). Previously, we had some bash scripts to do configuration and deployment, but it was not a serious way to do it.

I have not seen a return on investment with HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), so I am unable to provide these metrics. This is more related to finance. I am basically a user, and I am not aware of the budget or the billing for AWS or HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that because we are using AWS Marketplace now, we can put this in the budget, and we have better control over the pricing of HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

Before choosing HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), we evaluated Chef and also looked at different products, but we chose HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) because it was the standard for the market.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) helps me manage different environments by making things easy because we can track all the changes in the infrastructure. Initially, the deployment takes more time than doing it by hand, but in the long run, it is better to have HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) so we can track changes over time and detect fixes early.

Our SLA was improved when using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). We have reports over the past year showing that we can reduce the number of incidents using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is perfect because the product and the interface are simple, and I want to keep it that way. More complexity would be confusing, and I notice that when the product tries to add more characteristics, it makes it difficult to manage. At the moment, HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is perfect because it is simple, and we can find every command in one place and interface. The shared configuration is fantastic.

My advice to others looking into using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is that it is the standard, and it is easy to find employees who are able to manage HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) without more training. If you get HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), you can start immediately. It is a very easy product, and the language is very easy to learn. You can go from test to production very easily and fast using HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) scripts and deploy infrastructure as code very easily. I would rate HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) a seven out of ten.