I am a fan of HashiCorp but as someone who tried to use Terraform Cloud, I can’t help but think they wouldn’t be having this problem if they had a more competitive cloud product. They have a huge (and well-deserved) advantage in distribution over companies like Spacelift because they own the toolchain. The fact that they are resorting to this tells you what you need to know about Terraform Cloud.
Yeah, we gave it a shot, but really couldn't figure out where it provided any value over just running plan with an out file and apply with approvals in our normal CI/CD infra.
Right on the money. Such moves are the ultimate sign of weakness and inability to execute.
I really do wonder if barring people from innovating around Terraform, such a strangle will just lead to the emergence of a Terraform replacement in the next years.
Instead of buying spacelift or the competition and moving ahead, this solves... nothing?
I'm not a fan of theirs and I'm puzzled why they have such following. I suspect they actively paying for influencers and people on social media to hype it. Their commercial offering, especially support is subpar to what I'm used to.
That's a weird take. They had cloud ready quality tooling before everyone else. Consul, Vault, Terraform, Packer and Vagrant were all significantly ahead of the competition. That's an objectively impressive run.
Those tools however were better early on when we were all managing our own EC2 instances. Most people are moving on from that in one way or another (fargate, kubernetes, lamba, etc.). They aren't as useful with the newer tech and Hashicorp doesn't have a cloud offering that's competitive. No moat so to speak. That's an unfortunate turn of events for them.
