Cloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp Inc. is using its HashiConf event this week in San Francisco as a launchpad for a number of new products and updates aimed at helping companies better manage their multicloud information technology deployments.

HashiCorp specializes in automating the increasingly complex process of rolling out applications and infrastructure across diverse environments that include hybrid clouds and application containers, as well as in equipping DevOps developers to provision their own infrastructure.

To do this, HashiCorp offers a number of integrated products and services, including HashiCorp Consul, which is a distributed service networking layer used to connect, secure and configure applications across distributed infrastructure. The HashiCorp Consul 1.4 release comes integrated with Consul Connect for the first time. Consul Connect is a service mesh feature that’s designed to enable secure communication between different services, and is compatible with Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration tool.

“Services inside and outside Kubernetes can now be automatically configured to securely connect via a built-in or Envoy proxy,” the company said in its pitch. “Multidata-center support enables federation of trust and sharing of security policies between different clouds and on-premises data centers.”

HashiCorp’s Terraform platform, meanwhile, is the company’s main tool for provisioning any kind of infrastructure for any software application. The updated version, 0.12, sports improved configuration language, remote operations and new collaboration tools, the company said.

“Terraform is a core part of the way organizations set up and manage their cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and we are iterating on the product aggressively,” said Armon Dadgar, co-founder and chief technology officer of HashiCorp.

The HashiCorp Vault service for securing, storing and controlling access to tokens, passwords, certificates and encryption keys also gets an update. It has finally made the grade to version 1.0, with under-the-hood updates focused on stability, integration and scale.

“HashiCorp Vault is the fourth HashiCorp product to reach our very rigorous 1.0 milestone, following HashiCorp Packer, Consul and Vagrant,” said HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto. “Since the first release of Vault in 2015, it has grown from a central place to keep secrets to a comprehensive secrets management and data protection platform for some of the largest organizations in the world.”

Finally, HashiCorp Nomad, which is a scheduler tool used to automate the deployment applications on any infrastructure at any scale, has also been improved. Nomad now supports Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing units for the first time, among other updates. Nomad 0.9 will be released in November.

“The reality for the vast majority of Global 2000 is and likely always will be ‘multi-cloud,’” said Dave McJannet, chief executive officer of HashiCorp.

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