Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
Reseller
Top 10
Feb 18, 2026
I perform infrastructure provisioning and many other activities across different cloud providers. HashiCorp Terraform is a very useful tool for tracking resources. We use HashiCorp Vault and HashiCorp Terraform as ideal tools to provision infrastructure in the cloud using simple code. HashiCorp Enterprise Cloud helps us store the state file, which is a great utility for us. When using HashiCorp Enterprise Cloud for Terraform provisioning, we can provision resources even though some errors may be occurring with different resources without any stopper or show stopper. I can provision new resources even though existing errors persist, which is one of the great features from my perspective. For API capability to integrate with other models, we are planning to integrate it, but I did not have any exposure yet. We had a discovery that we need to use the API endpoint to integrate with our existing AI model so that any provisioning can be automated with the AI itself. When I have different environments, I can store variables using HashiCorp Consul. Consider that I'm using the same code for all environments. Using KMS value, I can use the same code in a different environment, which means I'm variablizing it. Only the prod and dev naming conventions may change, nothing more than that. When I'm using this KMS, I can integrate with the same code and re-provision it in any environment.
Associate DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Jan 24, 2024
The primary use case for HashiCorp Consul is in a microservices architecture, particularly within a premium application involving various streaming services like Kafka.
Service Mesh is an emerging technology aimed at managing, monitoring, and securing microservices applications. It offers real-time visibility and reliability, crucial for large and complex architectures.
Service Mesh provides advanced traffic management, security enforcement, and observability for microservices architectures. It operates at the network level, automatically handling service-to-service communication, and is often used with container orchestration platforms like...
I perform infrastructure provisioning and many other activities across different cloud providers. HashiCorp Terraform is a very useful tool for tracking resources. We use HashiCorp Vault and HashiCorp Terraform as ideal tools to provision infrastructure in the cloud using simple code. HashiCorp Enterprise Cloud helps us store the state file, which is a great utility for us. When using HashiCorp Enterprise Cloud for Terraform provisioning, we can provision resources even though some errors may be occurring with different resources without any stopper or show stopper. I can provision new resources even though existing errors persist, which is one of the great features from my perspective. For API capability to integrate with other models, we are planning to integrate it, but I did not have any exposure yet. We had a discovery that we need to use the API endpoint to integrate with our existing AI model so that any provisioning can be automated with the AI itself. When I have different environments, I can store variables using HashiCorp Consul. Consider that I'm using the same code for all environments. Using KMS value, I can use the same code in a different environment, which means I'm variablizing it. Only the prod and dev naming conventions may change, nothing more than that. When I'm using this KMS, I can integrate with the same code and re-provision it in any environment.
My main use case for HashiCorp Consul is a proof of concept. I am trying to see how HashiCorp Consul enables our developers.
The primary use case for HashiCorp Consul is in a microservices architecture, particularly within a premium application involving various streaming services like Kafka.
I use the solution for service discovery and orchestration. We have a lot of microservices architecture.