Last Updated on August 7, 2025 by Arnav Sharma
HashiCorp today announced The Infrastructure Cloud, a game-changing evolution in managing cloud infrastructure and security through a unified SaaS platform which is important for organizations navigating through hybrid environments with infrastructure lifecycle management. This initiative is set to accelerate cloud adoption by integrating core HashiCorp tools such as HashiCorp Terraform, now reborn as HCP Terraform, into the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), catering to environments with infrastructure lifecycle management.
Unifying Cloud Management with The Infrastructure Cloud
The Infrastructure Cloud represents a strategic pivot from traditional product offerings to a holistic service model designed to manage the full lifecycle of your infrastructure and security resources efficiently.
The Basis of The Infrastructure Cloud
Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Security Lifecycle Management (SLM)
At the core of The Infrastructure Cloud are two pivotal components:
- Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM): This layer uses infrastructure as code workflows to provision, deploy, and manage cloud resources. It ensures that infrastructure automation is seamless and governed by policy as code frameworks, crucial for maintaining consistency and compliance across cloud environments, a foundational aspect of the infrastructure cloud that lets you manage the full scope of your needs.
- Security Lifecycle Management (SLM): Integrated deeply with ILM, SLM focuses on protecting digital assets through identity-based security strategies. This includes managing secrets, policies, and access controls, which are fundamental to safeguarding the cloud journey.
Features and Benefits of The Infrastructure Cloud
- Cloud Right with a Unified Platform: The Infrastructure Cloud by HashiCorp offers a unified platform for your entire digital estate, simplifying the management of multi-cloud and hybrid environments. This integration helps organizations automate cloud infrastructure and security processes in hybrid environments with infrastructure lifecycle management, thereby enhancing agility and reducing operational overheads.
- Enhanced Automation and Workflow Integration: With the transition of Terraform Cloud to HCP Terraform, HashiCorp strengthens its commitment to infrastructure automation as a service. This change not only streamlines the deployment processes but also enhances the ability to manage infrastructure changes dynamically and efficiently.
- Provision Infrastructure as Code: HCP Terraform enables teams to provision and manage cloud infrastructure using a code-based approach that is both scalable and replicable, ensuring that every phase of the infrastructure lifecycle is coveredโfrom creation and maintenance to decommissioning.
- Enterprise-Grade Security: HashiCorp Vault, part of the comprehensive SLM offerings within The Infrastructure Cloud, ensures that all interactions are secured and compliant with the latest standards, providing peace of mind for enterprises navigating complex regulatory landscapes.
Driving Cloud Maturity with Advanced Lifecycle Management
The Infrastructure Cloud does more than just manage cloud resourcesโit provides a strategic framework for enterprise-grade lifecycle management and security lifecycle management. This approach not only supports the cloud infrastructure needs of today but also anticipates the demands of tomorrowโs digital landscapes, ensuring that Cloud is now HCP Terraform ready.
The introduction of The Infrastructure Cloud signifies HashiCorpโs vision to redefine the paradigms of cloud infrastructure management. By harnessing the power of the HashiCorp Cloud Platform, organizations can now engage in a more coherent, unified, and strategic approach to cloud right, ensuring that they not only meet but exceed the expectations of digital transformation and cloud maturity.
HashiCorpโs suite of tools, including the newly integrated HCP Terraform and HashiCorp Vault, are already revolutionizing how organizations automate multi-cloud and hybrid environments, making The Infrastructure Cloud a cornerstone for future-ready enterprises.