Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
Reseller
Top 10
Feb 18, 2026
As you know, HashiCorp is not open source; it is an enterprise offering. They can provide a free trial account with limited credits for startups or many companies. There are big giant companies around India, such as media-centric companies, and they are paying a lot of money for Akamai, GCP, and many other services, but they are not going to use HashiCorp because it is a paid offering. Also, it is very expensive. However, if they come to know that there are some free credits available, these big giant companies with exposure to it will definitely purchase the enterprise offering because it is helping and minimizing manpower at one end. It is a cakewalk for any DevOps to provision any kind of infrastructure with the existing modules without any error or code-related issues. You can provision easily. So this can be improved on the sales end or the promotion end by providing free credit or free trial accounts. KMS store, or key-value store, allows us to variablize it. We do not want others to look at what we have hardcoded or anything else. It's a great security tool. We are integrating some security scanning tools with HashiCorp Consul. Whenever the developer or DevOps provisions any infrastructure, if there are any vulnerabilities or if a secret is being passed directly, the security breaks the provisioning or stops the provisioning and breaks the pipeline. This observability shows whether the code is good to deploy or if it is bad code or if there is anything that needs to be changed. It also has the previous history of metrics and values so that management can directly track whether any pre-security vulnerabilities are being deployed. Whenever I want to provision or explore something new, this helps me understand what is going to happen. With a new offering, we definitely do not know what is going to come. When we integrate with observability and security scanning, it will directly block us if it does not meet security norms, and there will be an error message stating that. Then I can understand and find a different approach to it. I did not integrate it with the Vault. I would rate this product overall as an 8.5 out of 10.
Associate DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Jan 24, 2024
I recommend HashiCorp Consul for beginners. It is a stable tool. The key-vault storage feature has significantly enhanced our configuration management process. We have maintained the secret software applications in the vault and retrieved the information from Kv. I rate the product a seven out of ten. It is good open-source software to be managed within the production.
Senior Customer Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Nov 17, 2023
I take care of the infrastructure. I use Chef for configuration management. I work on multiple technologies. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.
Security Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Mar 24, 2022
I would advise others to try out HashiCorp Consul and run a test environment first to see if it meets their needs. I rate HashiCorp Consul an eight out of ten.
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As you know, HashiCorp is not open source; it is an enterprise offering. They can provide a free trial account with limited credits for startups or many companies. There are big giant companies around India, such as media-centric companies, and they are paying a lot of money for Akamai, GCP, and many other services, but they are not going to use HashiCorp because it is a paid offering. Also, it is very expensive. However, if they come to know that there are some free credits available, these big giant companies with exposure to it will definitely purchase the enterprise offering because it is helping and minimizing manpower at one end. It is a cakewalk for any DevOps to provision any kind of infrastructure with the existing modules without any error or code-related issues. You can provision easily. So this can be improved on the sales end or the promotion end by providing free credit or free trial accounts. KMS store, or key-value store, allows us to variablize it. We do not want others to look at what we have hardcoded or anything else. It's a great security tool. We are integrating some security scanning tools with HashiCorp Consul. Whenever the developer or DevOps provisions any infrastructure, if there are any vulnerabilities or if a secret is being passed directly, the security breaks the provisioning or stops the provisioning and breaks the pipeline. This observability shows whether the code is good to deploy or if it is bad code or if there is anything that needs to be changed. It also has the previous history of metrics and values so that management can directly track whether any pre-security vulnerabilities are being deployed. Whenever I want to provision or explore something new, this helps me understand what is going to happen. With a new offering, we definitely do not know what is going to come. When we integrate with observability and security scanning, it will directly block us if it does not meet security norms, and there will be an error message stating that. Then I can understand and find a different approach to it. I did not integrate it with the Vault. I would rate this product overall as an 8.5 out of 10.
I would appreciate clarification on what advice I should give to others looking into using HashiCorp Consul. I gave this review a rating of 8.
I recommend HashiCorp Consul for beginners. It is a stable tool. The key-vault storage feature has significantly enhanced our configuration management process. We have maintained the secret software applications in the vault and retrieved the information from Kv. I rate the product a seven out of ten. It is good open-source software to be managed within the production.
I take care of the infrastructure. I use Chef for configuration management. I work on multiple technologies. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.
I would advise others to try out HashiCorp Consul and run a test environment first to see if it meets their needs. I rate HashiCorp Consul an eight out of ten.