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Welcome to episode 295 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy!  Welp, it's sayonara to Skype – and time to finally make the move to Teams. Hashi has officially moved to IBM, GPT 4.5 is out and people have…thoughts. Plus, Google has the career coach you need to make all your dreams come true.* *Assuming those dreams are reasonable in a volatile economy.  Titles we almost went with this week: Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the cloud dreamers, and Me  Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer You may say I’m a cloud dreamer, but I’m not the only one May the skype shut down Q can tell me that my python skills are bad How many free code assistance does Ryan need to be a good developer: ALL OF THEM Oops honey I spent 1M dollars on oracle Latest Cloud Pod Reviews: “It’s a Lemon” A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News  01:04 On May 5, Microsoft's Skype will shut down for good  In what we swear is the 9th death for Skype, Microsoft has announced that after 21 years (with 13 of those years under MS Control,) Skype will be no more.  For real this time. Really.  May 5th is the official last day of Skype, and they've indicated you can continue your calls and chats in Teams.  Starting now, you should be able to use your Skype login to get into Teams.  For those of you who do this, you'll see all your existing contacts and chats in Teams.  Alternatively, you can export your Skype data, specifically contacts, call history and chats.  Current subscribers to Skype Premium services will remain active until the end, but you will not be able to sign up for Skype at this time.  Skype dial pad credits will remain active in the web interface and inside Teams after May 5th so you can finish using those credits.  03:37 Matthew  – “I think there’s a lot of people and, you know, at least people I know in other countries to still use Skype, like pretty heavily for like cross country communications, things along those lines. So I think a lot of that is that there probably is still a good amount of people using it. And this is just, Hey, they’re trying to make it nicely. So how, you know, nice and clean cut over for people versus, you know, the Apple method of it just doesn’t work anymore. Good luck.” 04:41 HashiCorp officially joins the IBM family  IBM has finished the acquisition of HashiCorp, which they had announced last year. Armon Dadgar wrote a blog post reflecting on the journey that Hashicorp has been on; he talks about the future and that his goal is to have Hashicorp in every datacenter. 

How to implement infrastructure as code? Ashish spoke to Armon Dadgar. Co-Founder and CTO at HashiCorp at Hashidays London. Armon speaks about his journey from co-creating Terraform, the first open-source language in the IaC space, to addressing the complex challenges enterprises face in cloud environments today. They speak about why having a platform team from the beginning is crucial for large enterprises, the evolution of IaC, the importance of standardization in managing cloud applications, and how automation plays a key role in maintaining security. Guest Socials:⁠ Armon's Linkedin Podcast Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CloudSecPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Podcast- Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security BootCamp Questions asked: 00:00 Introduction 01:54 A bit about Armon 02:32 How has infrastructure as code evolved? 03:43 The role of Terraform 04:38 Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management 06:51 Best Practice for Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 09:11 Best Practice for Security Lifecycle Management 09:38 What is a Platform Team? 11:02 When should people start thinking about a platform team? 13:02 What is Zero Trust? 14:52 Challenges with IaC 17:35 How GenAI is impacting IaC? 20:04 Starting an open source project? 24:53 The Fun Section

After last week's announcement that IBM is acquiring HashiCorp for $6.4B, HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar discussed a few behind-the-scenes elements of the acquisition and HashiCorp's full journey from the early days. Armon shares some of his biggest lessons from the journey, from fundraising to community building and more. (00:00) Intro(01:17) Explaining HashiCorp: Simplifying Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprises(03:24) Navigating the Acquisition: Emotions, Expectations, and the Future with IBM(09:01) The Founding Story: Choosing the Path of a Venture-Backed Business(10:59) Challenging Silicon Valley Wisdom: HashiCorp's Multi-Product Strategy(17:54) The Importance of Being Pragmatic: Adapting Products to Market Needs(32:27) Customer Trust and Commitment: The Foundation of HashiCorp's Success(36:27) Organizational Evolution: Adapting Structure to Strategy at HashiCorp(38:36) Exploring Product Verticals and Team Structures(39:16) The Evolution of Product Portfolio(40:46) Strategic Product Development and Market Fit(41:51) Transitioning from Product Expansion to Monetization(43:27) The Impact of Docker on Fundraising and Strategy(50:31) Navigating the Challenges of Multi-Product Strategy(55:33) The Significance of Branding and Product Naming(01:00:46) Understanding User vs. Buyer Dynamics in Open Source Monetization(01:09:17) The Founders' Journey: From University to HashiCorp(01:16:39) Navigating Leadership and Hiring Challenges(01:17:14) The Search for the Right Leadership: A Journey of Discovery(01:17:57) Realizing the Need for Specialized Roles(01:18:24) The Turning Point: Hiring Key Executives(01:19:57) Overcoming the Ego: Embracing Change for Company Success(01:21:18) The Final Decision: Bringing in New Leadership(01:22:45) Reflecting on the Hiring Process and Its Impact(01:28:27) Building a Culture of Execution and Communication(01:50:51) The Importance of Airline Loyalty for Busy Executives Executive Producer: Rashad AssirProducer: Leah ClapperMixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA 

Do you love licensing drama? Last week HashiCorp made headlines with an announcement by CTO Armon Dadgar that they're changing licensing models. HashiCorp is now adopting the Business Source License, or BSL, which was popularized by MariaDB and Couchbase. Under the BSL, HashiCorp code will remain freely available and usable for non-production use. You may be granted a license for production use if your project doesn't compete with HashiCorp. If it does you'll need to buy a commercial license. The move has generated a lot of discussion and speculation in the community given how prevalent projects like Terraform are. This and more on the Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:43 - NVIDIA Launches Refreshed H100 Without Intel 4:41 - Years of Intel CPUs affected by Downfall Bug 9:06 - Groq and Samsung Foundry Bring Next-Gen LPU 13:43 - OpenELA is formed by Oracle, SUSE, and More 18:03 - Intel Terminates Tower Semiconductor Acquisition 21:27 - Itential and Alkira Team Up 24:27 - Business Source License Adopted by HashiCorp 39:41 - The Weeks Ahead41:07 - Thanks for WatchingFollow our Hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #OpenELA, #AI, #Security, #Linux, #OpenSource, @IntelBusiness, @GroqInc, @Samsung, @Oracle, @SUSE, @Redhat, @Itential, @Alkira, @HashiCorp, #TFDx, #VMwareExplore, #SFD26, #SDC2023, #EFD2,

In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and HashiCorp Co-Founder and CTO Armon Dadgar discuss open core strategy, the challenges surrounding cloud-based product adoption for traditional enterprise, and the evolution of enterprise commercial structure.

Armon Dadgar and Mitchell Hashimoto are long-time open source practitioners. It's that practitioner focus they established as core to their approach when they started HashiCorp about ten years ago. Today, HashiCorp is a publicly traded company. Before they started HashiCorp, Dadgar and Hashimoto were students at the University of Washington. Through college and afterward, they cut their teeth on open source and learning how to build software in open source. HashiCorp's business is an outgrowth of the two as practitioners in open source communities, said Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, in an interview at the HashiConf conference in Los Angeles earlier this month. Both of them wanted to recreate the asynchronous collaboration that they loved so much about the open source projects they worked on as practitioners, Dadgar said. They knew that they did not want bureaucracy or a hard-to-follow roadmap. Dadgar cited Terraform as an example of their approach. Terraform is Hashicorp's open-source, infrastructure-as-code, software tool and reflects the company's model to control its core while providing a good user experience. That experience goes beyond community development and into the application architecture itself. "If you're a weekend warrior, and you want to contribute something, you're not gonna go read this massively complicated codebase to understand how it works, just to do an integration," Dadgar said." So instead, we built a very specific integration surface area for Terraform." The integration is about 200 lines of code, Dadgar said. They call the integration their core plus plugin model, with a prescriptive scaffold, examples of how to integrate, and the SDK. Their "golden path" to integration is how the company has developed a program that today has about 2,500 providers. The HashiCorp open source model relies on its core and plugin model. On Twitter, one person asked why doesn't HashiCorp be a proprietary company. Dadgar referred to HashiCorp's open source approach when asked that question in our interview. "Oh, that's an interesting question," Dadgar said. "You know, I think it'd be a much harder, company to scale. And what I mean by that is, if you take a look at like a Terraform community or Vault – there's thousands of contributors. And that's what solves the integration problem. Right? And so if you said, we were proprietary, hey, how many engineers would it take to build 2000 TerraForm integrations? It'd be a whole lot more people that we have today. And so I think fundamentally, what open source helps you solve is the fact that, you know, modern infrastructure has this really wide surface area of integration. And I don't think you can solve that as a proprietary business." "I don't think we'd be able to have nearly the breadth of integration. We could maybe cover the core cloud providers. But you'd have 50 Terraform providers, not 2500 Terraform providers."  

Intro Michael: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 58, an interview with Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and CTO of HashiCorp, the company behind the Uber successful open-source projects Terraform and Vault. In addition to writing one of the pillars of cloud infrastructure with over 100 million... The post Episode 58: Cloud Infrastructure Automation Platform with Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder & CTO of HashiCorp first appeared on Open Source Underdogs.

Armon Dadgar is Cofounder & CTO of HashiCorp, the software infrastructure & security automation company that works with open source projects such as Terraform, Vault, Consul, Vagrant, Packer, and Nomad. HashiCorp went public in late 2021 and currently has a market capitalization of $6B. In this episode, we discuss the timeline from project release to mass adoption, the importance of focusing on user problems rather than a specific technical solution, incorporating the right user feedback, the hard decisions he had to make as a leader, and learnings from 9+ years at HashiCorp.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and CTO of HashiCorp, as they discuss his journey and how HashiCorp managed to innovate in virtualization, key management, policy as code, service mesh and more.

Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst Mandeep Singh is hosting HashiCorp co-founder and CTO, Armon Dadgar, to talk about how HashiCorp is building the middleware for the cloud and seeks to partner with hyperscale cloud vendors for all kinds of workloads and applications.

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Cloud Security News this week 22 October 2021 Hope you have been enjoying your Cloud Security News this week and in our special third instalment for this week we bring you our best bits from Hashiconf Global 2021, conference held by Hashicorp. Hashicorp is a software company who provide open source tools and products - some of their popular products Vagrant, Terraform, Vault and boundary - You can view the conference and the talks here The opening keynote was delivered by their Co-Founders Mitchell Hashimoto, Armon Dadgar, and CEO Dave McJannet - with key themes around Zero Trust, Hybrid and MultiCloud - looking to make Zero Trust more accessible for users. Mitchell Hashimoto spoke about the challenges Developers face when deploying applications with Kubernetes and how Waypoint assists with this. They also spoke about the Hashicorp Cloud Platform (HCP) and the packer service which is now in public Beta, available free to use. Some of the features highlighted included remediation, enforcing security checks and maintaining images Shane Petrich from Target in his talk “Managing Target's Secrets Platform” spoke about how Target manages and maintains its enterprise deployment of HashiCorp Vault (Hashicorp's secret management and data protection product) -- everything from unattended builds, automated maintenance activities, and client onboardings. Identity and account access is one of the first things you set up in the cloud and Austin Burdine, Mike Saraf and Yates Spearman share how Red Ventures implemented a custom Terraform solution to automate access management, meeting the requirements of various compliance frameworks Last year Hashicorp announced Boundary, their secure remote access solution. This year at Hashiconf 2021, Susmitha Girumala and Mike Gaffney from HashiCorp showcased what is new in Boundary with a demo of key capabilities of identity-based access, integrated secrets management with Vault and dynamic host catalogs. Mark Guan and Ruoran Wang from Stripe's Service Networking Team spoke about their multi-region service networking tech stack built on Consul (Hashicorp's service networking solution), how it works across AWS accounts and regions, federated multi-region clusters and on Kubernetes. They also generously shared the challenges they faced. Episode Show Notes on Cloud Security Podcast Website. Podcast Twitter - Cloud Security Podcast (@CloudSecPod) Instagram - Cloud Security News If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes, check out: - Cloud Security Podcast: - Cloud Security Academy:

Cloud Security News this week 22 October 2021 Hope you have been enjoying your Cloud Security News this week and in our special third instalment for this week we bring you our best bits from Hashiconf Global 2021, conference held by Hashicorp. Hashicorp is a software company who provide open source tools and products - some of their popular products Vagrant, Terraform, Vault and boundary - You can view the conference and the talks here The opening keynote was delivered by their Co-Founders Mitchell Hashimoto, Armon Dadgar, and CEO Dave McJannet - with key themes around Zero Trust, Hybrid and MultiCloud - looking to make Zero Trust more accessible for users. Mitchell Hashimoto spoke about the challenges Developers face when deploying applications with Kubernetes and how Waypoint assists with this. They also spoke about the Hashicorp Cloud Platform (HCP) and the packer service which is now in public Beta, available free to use. Some of the features highlighted included remediation, enforcing security checks and maintaining images Shane Petrich from Target in his talk “Managing Target's Secrets Platform” spoke about how Target manages and maintains its enterprise deployment of HashiCorp Vault (Hashicorp's secret management and data protection product) -- everything from unattended builds, automated maintenance activities, and client onboardings. Identity and account access is one of the first things you set up in the cloud and Austin Burdine, Mike Saraf and Yates Spearman share how Red Ventures implemented a custom Terraform solution to automate access management, meeting the requirements of various compliance frameworks Last year Hashicorp announced Boundary, their secure remote access solution. This year at Hashiconf 2021, Susmitha Girumala and Mike Gaffney from HashiCorp showcased what is new in Boundary with a demo of key capabilities of identity-based access, integrated secrets management with Vault and dynamic host catalogs. Mark Guan and Ruoran Wang from Stripe's Service Networking Team spoke about their multi-region service networking tech stack built on Consul (Hashicorp's service networking solution), how it works across AWS accounts and regions, federated multi-region clusters and on Kubernetes. They also generously shared the challenges they faced. Episode Show Notes on Cloud Security Podcast Website. Podcast Twitter - Cloud Security Podcast (@CloudSecPod) Instagram - Cloud Security News If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes, check out: - Cloud Security Podcast: - Cloud Security Academy:

HashiCorp's Co-Founder and CTO, Armon Dadgar, joins me for a conversation on Cloud Native Startup.In this episode, we focus on open source and how it serves as the core to HashiCorp's identity. We also explore Armon's journey towards founding HashiCorp with Mitchell Hashimoto and what the future holds as they both lean into their respective passions. Learn a few keys to cultivating a successful open source community, why some companies don't rely on this success, his lessons learned, and more.Highlights: A  look at Armon's role as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer and what sparked the decision to build HashiCorp alongside Mitchell Hashimoto. (00:13) Armon shares why HashiCorp began as open source and how that developed into a company. (4:46) How an open source community compares to a paid community - and Armon's take on bootstraping an open source company. (11:23) Why creating an open source project directly from a closed source project is not the best strategy. (14:43) Keys to building a successful open source community and why this is vital to HashiCorp.(18:14) Armon shares lessons learned during the early days of HashiCorp - and his thoughts on the complexities of being a founder. (23:15) How Mitchell's decision to step back as an individual contributor allows him to focus on his passion - and more on why they chose to monetize HashiCorp. (29:30) Links:Armon Twitter: https://twitter.com/armon GitHub: https://github.com/armon Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armon-dadgar/ HashiCorp Website: https://www.hashicorp.com/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/hashicorp

Big tech companies have their pros and cons; but compared to the freedom found in startups, the choice was a no-brainer for Armon. In this episode, we interview Armon Dadgar, Co-founder and CTO at HashiCorp, about how his company gained success through a balanced relationship with the co-founder, seed money from trusted investors, and changing hats as the CTO to best fit the specific concerns of the quarter. In this episode, we discuss: Armon's journey to startups & HashiCorp's origin Startup success & funding through friendship Changing hats as a founder The HashiCorp Employee Exchange and COVID-19 epiphanies Building an open source business vs. open source project Check out the resources below: Shout out to HashiCorp Co-founder and best friend to Armon, Mitchell Hashimoto Listen to this and all of The Founder Formula episodes at Apple Podcasts , Spotify, or our website . Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for The Founder Formula in your favorite podcast player.

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comTaylor's Twitter: https://twitter.com/onlydoleFor more information about Terraform, see https://terraform.ioEpisode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-taylor-dolezal-terraform-specialListen to our episode with Armon Dadgar, CTO and co-founder of Hashicorp: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-armon-dadgar-cto-and-co-founder-of-hashicorp/

Rob interviews HashiCorp's Armon Dadgar about the inspiration of HashiCorp, infrastructure challenges and opportunities, and the future of security. 

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comArmon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/armonEpisode highlights: A tool to unify devs, ops, and release engineers (1:08) Lowering the friction of security (8:11) Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-armon-dadgar-cto-and-co-founder-of-hashicorp

Armon was on the PhD path, poised to become an academic. But he and his college friend Mitchell Hashimoto realized they had an opportunity ahead of them: building technology to support cloud infrastructure. They founded HashiCorp in 2012 and have grown to more than 80 million open source downloads per year, with a company valuation over $5 billion. Armon shares how a stint at a San Francisco startup led to his aha moment, how HashiCorp decided on an open-source model and enterprise customer, and why the company was remote-first long before Covid.

It’s easy for founders to focus solely on building the product at the expense of building the company culture, especially in the early days. But as HashiCorp Co-founder & Co-CTO Armon Dadgar says, products come and go, but culture stays forever. In this episode, Armon shares his perspective on designing company culture intentionally from day one, the importance of investing in long term relationships across the business, and building organizational empathy to create a more inclusive environment.

There's a few ontologies for describing the phases leaders -- and their startups -- go through, whether it's product-sales-etc. or pioneer to settler. In any case, as companies evolve, so must the leaders -- but can the same person transition across all these phases? When and when not; what are the qualities, criteria, and tradeoffs to be made?In this episode of the a16z Podcast, originally recorded as an internal hallway-style chat (pre pandemic!) a16z general partner Martin Casado, who co-founded but decided to remain CTO of Nicira -- and previously shared his own journey, lessons learned, and advice for founders about bringing in an external CEO and the question of "to CTO or not to CTO" -- and Armon Dadgar, co-founder (with Mitchell Hashimoto) and CTO of HashiCorp, chat with Sonal Chokshi about both managing their past psychology through these common questions and decisions. They also share their strategies on managing the specific tactics behind it all: Everything from the "dating" process of finding an external CEO to figuring out swim lanes; handling debates and decisions; who presents, who sells. And while the conversation is a brief glimpse into their longer personal journeys, there's lessons in it for startups and leaders of all kinds on the art of hiring and sales, managing credit and conflict, and more...

In this episode Karan Batta sits down with Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and CTO of HashiCorp. HashiCorp offers a dedicated Terraform provider for the purpose of provisioning and managing Oracle cloud-based services. For more information on how Oracle and HashiCorp work together, visit @tions/oracle

Armon Dadgar is the Co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, a commercial open source company that provides the fundamental building blocks around infrastructure and automation that developers need to create scalable, secure, high-performance applications hosted in the cloud. Valued at over $5 billion and now with over 1,000 employees worldwide, HashiCorp started out life in 2010 as an open source project and since grown into the defacto standard for modern cloud-computing development. In this episode, which was recorded live at GGV’s annual Evolving Enterprise conference, we learn how Armon and his Co-founder, Mitchell Hashimoto, initially met, what it took to sell to the enterprise and how to hire the right people as a distributed company.

Mitchell Hashimoto is the Co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. In this episode, which was recorded during a GGV live webinar, we learn how Mitchell and his cofounder, Armon Dadgar, built HashiCorp into a 1000-person company valued at over $5B—all with a very distributed team since day one. For companies suddenly managing remote workforces, or for startups just beginning the journey toward growth, how can you scale and succeed far into the future with a fully distributed team? HashiCorp’s experiences scaling into a global enterprise software powerhouse without opening the usual array of offices are especially valuable today, now that so many companies have gone remote almost overnight.

“At the core of what HashiCorp does, almost everything is open source for us. And so in terms of traditional marketing, we do very little of it. It's very much driven around creating great products in open source as to make it broadly available to developers and users.” — Armon Dadgar Chad is joined by Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of Hashicorp. As CTO of Hashicorp, Armon has spent a large amount of his time building the culture of the company by refining the process of hiring and investing in the future. As a leader, he knows his job is as much about building a great product as it is about building a great team.  “The bulk of it was either alternating between writing code and hiring people to write more code. And now it's almost sort of the total opposite,” says Armon “I probably haven't written a line of code in two or three years... I spend a lot more time on the outbound side, a lot more time with the management team in terms of how we think about culture and process and hiring future investments.” From an early age, programming has been a key part of Armon’s life, and this hobby propelled him through the University of Washington and into the world of coding. He focused on open source programming, and this eventually led to him starting his own company, Hashicorp, with co-founder, Mithcell Hashimoto. On this episode, Armon discusses the differences between being a coder and the CTO, ways to keep up with the ever-changing, fast-paced world of IT, and how to find time for personal growth. — Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org. We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! 

Today, despite the critical importance of open source to software, it’s still seen by some as blasphemous to make money as an open source business. In this podcast, Armon Dadgar, Cofounder and CTO of HashiCorp; Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks; and a16z General Partner Peter Levine explain why it's necessary to turn some open source projects into businesses.They also cover the most important questions for open source leaders to answer: How do you keep community engaged while building a business? What new opportunities does SaaS (software-as-a-service) present? And if you are a SaaS business, how should you approach cloud service companies, like Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

On this podcast, we’re talking to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp. Alongside Mitchell Hashimoto, Armon founded HashiCorp over six years ago, and the company has gone from strength to strength, with their open source infrastructure product suite now consisting of Consul, Nomad, Vault and Terraform. We discuss the formation of the HashiCorp research division, and explore some of the computer science research underpinning Consul and Nomad. We also cover the challenges of supporting teams when they are looking to embrace new modes of working with dynamic infrastructure, and Armon introduces the new learn.hashicorp.com educational website and accompanying community and support forums. Why listen to this podcast: - There is a lot of fundamental computer science research that underpins the HashiCorp infrastructure workflow and configuration tooling. This helps to ensure that these mission-critical tools perform as expected, and enables sound reasoning about scaling these technologies. - The HashiCorp founders recognised the value of creating an industrial research-focused department within the company even when there were only 30 staff. - The Consul service mesh and distributed key value store leverages consensus and gossip algorithms from computer science research, Raft and SWIM, respectively. The HashiCorp team contributed a novel research-based improvement to SWIM -- Lifeguard: SWIM-ing with Situational Awareness -- that was presented at the DSN academic conference - Initially HashiCorp produced a new tool every 6-12 months, focusing on filling gaps within the infrastructure workflow tooling market. Now the focus is on refining the operator/user experience of the existing tools, creating more integrations with other platforms and tooling, and facilitating engineering teams adopting these tools, via the creation of educational resources and community forums. - Standardisation within computing technology can offer many benefits, especially where interoperability is required or technology switching costs are high. Care must be taken to ensure the correct interfaces are created, and that the time is right to create appropriate abstractions. - The HashiCorp team are focusing on "marching up the stack", with the goal that a lot of the underlying "plumbing" should be hidden from, or easily configurable by, application developers. This will allow developers to focus on adding value related to their business or organisation, rather than getting stuck with managing infrastructure. More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2KptB3d You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2KptB3d

Dave McJannet joined HashiCorp as CEO about three years ago when the company was approximately 30 people. Today the company employs more than 400 people, the company’s value has grown more than 20x and customer adoption for both the company’s open source platform and enterprise products have exploded. Prior to joining HashiCorp, Dave ran marketing at GitHub and HortonWorks, and earlier in his career spent time at VMware, Microsoft and webMethods. In this episode, we dig into HashiCorp’s growth and how it balances open source communities and enterprise revenue models, Dave’s journey to becoming the CEO and his relationship with HashiCorp co-founders Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, and the secret to selling software to large enterprises. Episode Highlights: 02:36: What’s it like to join a startup as a CEO when you’re not the founder? What are some of the challenges? 05:23: What made you think you were the right CEO for the CEO role at Hashicorp? 06:40: How to do split things up – between yourself and the two co-founders? 08:05: How do you manage disagreements? 08:54: How does your open source business model work? 10:40: Are there key indicators or metrics that you use to monitor the health of the business? 12:05: How do you think about time and resource allocation between the open source and commercial sides of the business? 13:11: How much time are the founders spending with open source communities vs. commercial customers? 14:15: How do you prioritize what's going to be part of the open source roadmap and what you're going to keep for commercial? 15:50: What do you need to do to be successful in selling to the enterprise as a young company? 17:39: In selling to the enterprise, it is just fake it till you make it? 19:21: How big a deal is support when working with enterprise customers? 20:05: What value do you get from your user conference? Do you recommend annual events for users? 22:08: As you scale from different revenue phases, what have you had to re-tool? What’s on your mind next? 25:07: What's your favorite book that you recommend for founders? 25:33: If you were a investor or board member in a Series A or B company what's the one piece of advice you'd give to the founder? 26:12 What's a company that you admire and why?

Dave McJannet joined HashiCorp as CEO about three years ago when the company was approximately 30 people. Today the company employs more than 400 people, the company’s value has grown more than 20x and customer adoption for both the company’s open source platform and enterprise products have exploded. Prior to joining HashiCorp, Dave ran marketing at GitHub and HortonWorks, and earlier in his career spent time at VMware, Microsoft and webMethods. In this episode, we dig into HashiCorp’s growth and how it balances open source communities and enterprise revenue models, Dave’s journey to becoming the CEO and his relationship with HashiCorp co-founders Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, and the secret to selling software to large enterprises. Episode Highlights: 02:36: What’s it like to join a startup as a CEO when you’re not the founder? What are some of the challenges? 05:23: What made you think you were the right CEO for the CEO role at Hashicorp? 06:40: How to do split things up – between yourself and the two co-founders? 08:05: How do you manage disagreements? 08:54: How does your open source business model work? 10:40: Are there key indicators or metrics that you use to monitor the health of the business? 12:05: How do you think about time and resource allocation between the open source and commercial sides of the business? 13:11: How much time are the founders spending with open source communities vs. commercial customers? 14:15: How do you prioritize what's going to be part of the open source roadmap and what you're going to keep for commercial? 15:50: What do you need to do to be successful in selling to the enterprise as a young company? 17:39: In selling to the enterprise, it is just fake it till you make it? 19:21: How big a deal is support when working with enterprise customers? 20:05: What value do you get from your user conference? Do you recommend annual events for users? 22:08: As you scale from different revenue phases, what have you had to re-tool? What’s on your mind next? 25:07: What's your favorite book that you recommend for founders? 25:33: If you were a investor or board member in a Series A or B company what's the one piece of advice you'd give to the founder? 26:12 What's a company that you admire and why?

Show: 387Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Armon Dadgar (@armon, Founder/CTO @HashiCorp) about the problems service mesh can solve, the underlying technologies, control plane vs. data plane considerations, and who is making decisions about service meshes within an IT organization.Show Sponsor Links:Liquid Technology - IT Value RecoveryTry CloudLast Service, get a free t-shirt and chance at Amazon Gift CardDatadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry DataDog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtCloud News of the WeekJFrog acquires Shippable, adding continuous integration and delivery to its DevOps platformAmazon launches third Alexa Accelerator for conversational startupsAzure Kinect DK - Build computer vision and speech models using a developer kit with advanced AI sensorsFollow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2018 Edition (Charles Fitzgerald - Platformnomics)Show Interview Links:Hashicorp - http://hashicorp.comWhat is a Service Mesh - https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/what-is-a-service-meshConsul - https://www.consul.io/Show Notes:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a couple years since HashiCorp has been on the show, so give us an update on the company - big round of funding ($100M) in November.Topic 2 - A couple months ago we saw you in a video called “What is a Service Mesh?”. It was intended to be a “let’s make this simple” and you realize that a Service Mesh could be a lot of things - L4-L7 routing, Proxy, Encryption, Authentication, Application patterns. Is a Service Mesh solving a new problem, or is it pulling together lots of things that have existed at L4-L7 and application stacks in the past? Topic 3 - “Service Mesh” has become a pretty crowded and fragmented market over the last couple years. HashiCorp Consul has been around since 2014 (was originally “Service Discovery”) and now there’s Linkerd, Istio, Envoy and a bunch of variations. As you talk to people in the market, how are they evaluating the options out there? Topic 4 - Consul has evolved from Service Discovery to Service Mesh, and seems to have come from more of an authentication and security perspective (some others tends to be more routing-centric). Are there use-cases when one Service Mesh is a better fit than others, or should we expect that all/most of them will more or less converged on features over the next 12-24 months? Topic 5 - Can you give us some examples of how companies are using Service Meshes today (parts or all of the capabilities) and what teams are usually driving the adoption (infra/ops, security, app-dev, etc.)?Feedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

HashiCorp was founded seven years ago with the goal of building infrastructure tools for automating cloud workflows such as provisioning, secret management, and service discovery. Hashicorp’s thesis was that operating cloud infrastructure was too hard: there was a need for new tools to serve application developers. Hashicorp founders Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar began releasing The post Scaling HashiCorp with Armon Dadgar and Mitchell Hashimoto appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Armon Dadgar is the Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp, the open-source software company that provides consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect and run any infrastructure for any application. To date, Hashicorp has raised over $74m in VC funding from many friends of the show including Scott Raney @ Redpoint, Glenn Solomon @ GGV, Semil Shah, True Ventures and Mayfield. As for Armon, today he leads the Hashicorp research group and focused on industrial research in the security and large-scale system management space. Prior to founding Hashicorp, Armon was a software engineer @ Kiip and Amazon. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Armon made his way from intern at Amazon to founding Hashicorp and creating the game-changing suite of tools in the world of DevOps? 2.) Hashicorp has enjoyed success after success with new products, so what does Armon believe is the secret to continuous product innovation? What does Armon mean when he says "there are really 3 phases to product adoption"? How does Armon determine between vision for a product and the realism when it is not working, when launching products? 3.) Hashicorp only recently started generating revenue, why was now the right time? At what point does one go from building products for the community to building products people will pay for? How does Armon assess professional services today? What does Armon believe are the 2 foundational problems with "professional services"? 4.) Many VCs suggest it's impossible to build big infrastructure businesses today given the commoditizing forces to open source and cloud computing. How have Hashicorp navigated that and bucked that conventional wisdom? How has Armon also bucked the conventional wisdom on the importance of focus? What core tenets must remain if one wants to go against this emphasis on focus? 5.) Armon and his co-founder brought on a CEO early, what was the realisation moment for the need to bring in an external CEO? How did Armon look to get comfortable with this transition? What advice would Armon give to founders contemplating bringing in an external CEO? With the benefit of hindsight, what would Armon do differently if he had the time again? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Armon’s Fave Book: To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Armon on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Are you told your standards are too high, well The League is the app that tells you to keep them that way, they know your time is valuable so simply tell them your preferences and they will handle the scouting and vetting for you. Plus even better, your profile will only ever be seen by people who match your preferences, matches expire after 21 days and so there are no drawn-out games and they even require LinkedIn to protect your privacy and block you from matching with co-workers and business connections. You can apply now by downloading The League on the app store or heading to The League.com Zoom is the fastest-growing video and web conferencing service, providing one consistent enterprise experience that allows you to engage in an a variety of activities including video meetings and webinars, collaboration-enabled conference rooms, and persistent chat all in one platform. Plus, it is the easiest solution to manage, scale, and use, and has the most straightforward, affordable pricing. And you can see for yourself! Sign up for a free account (not a trial!). Just visit Zoom.us. Culture Amp is the platform that makes it easy to collect, understand and act on employee feedback. From onboarding surveys to company-wide engagement, individual effectiveness and more, the platform manages multiple sources of feedback and connects the dots for you and that is why companies like Slack, Nike, Oracle and Lyft all trust Culture Amp. It enables leaders to make better decisions, demonstrate impact and turn your company culture into a competitive edge.  Find out more on cultureamp.com.

This episode of HashiCast highlights Armon Dadgar from HashiCorp. Armon Dadgar is one of the two founders and the co-CTO of HashiCorp. Armon has an immense passion for Open Source and distributed systems to solve real world problems. He has worked on Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Consul, and Serf at HashiCorp, and maintains the Statsite and Bloomd OSS projects as well. We chat about how Armon got started with technology. We explored his early days in high school and university. We talked about how HashiCorp came into existence and the most challenging problems for HashiCorp as a company in the next few years. Guests: Armon Dadgar - HashiCorp Hosts: Anubhav Mishra, Nic Jackson - Developer Advocates, HashiCorp Intro Music: El Mariachi by The Greek Fandango Orchestra (Creative Commons) freakfandango.bandcamp.com Links: HashiCorp: https://hashicorp.com

In episode 44 of To Be Continuous, Paul and Edith meet with Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and CTO of HashiCorp, along with GGV Capital's Glenn Solomon to dive into how CI/CD and open source can drive an enterprise-facing business strategy.

In episode 44 of To Be Continuous, Paul and Edith meet with Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and CTO of HashiCorp, along with GGV Capital's Glenn Solomon to dive into how CI/CD and open source can drive an enterprise-facing business strategy. The post Ep. #44, Open Source for Enterprise with HashiCorp appeared first on Heavybit.

Armon Dadgar speaks to Matthew Farwell about Secrets Management.

Armon Dadgar speaks to Matthew Farwell about Secrets Management. The show covers: what a secret is; the difference between secrets and sensitive data; what is secrets management; the different types of secrets; key management; auditing of secrets; implementing secrets management.   Related Links Vault Project Kerwhiz Armon Dadgar HashiCorp SE-Radio Episode 290: Diogo Mónica on […]

Join this exciting chat with Armon Dadgar, co-founder of HashiCorp, as we look at how to define DevOps in terms of where you and your organization are in the evolution.  This is also where you learn key tips on how to approach evolving yourself and your team to be able to begin embracing a DevOps approach to IT.  Also, some news about an important upcoming webinar!