Welcome to HashiBits - August 2025

This month in HashiBits - from community insights to product deep dives, this edition brings you practical guides, lessons learned, and new ways to simplify infrastructure at scale.

Learn from engineers building internal Terraform providers, designing better test workflows, and navigating the challenges of Day 2 platform operations. Get best practices for Terraform modules, see how Skechers speeds up delivery with self-service, and explore product updates that make secure automation easier — from Vault MCP servers to Boundary’s dynamic host catalog.

Plus, HashiConf 2025’s Business Track lineup is live, and upcoming webinars and workshops will help you advance your IaC maturity and cloud foundations.

🤝 From the HashiCorp community

Writing an internal Terraform provider from A to Z — An engineer at Typeform shares his lessons learned developing, deploying, and running an internal Terraform provider. By Andy Kuszyk

Building meaningful Terraform test workflows — See an example Terraform testing workflow that ties together CI build artifacts, infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and live endpoint validation into a single, automated pipeline. By Mark Tinderholt

17 key considerations before designing Terraform modules — Explore 17 best practices for designing and using Terraform modules, broken down into five different categories. By Sourav Kundu

Enterprise platform teams are stuck in Day 2 hell — As Armon Dadgar has been saying for a while now, Day 1 platform operations are fairly simple. It’s Day 2+ where things get hard.  By Jennifer Riggins

✍️ From HashiCorp

Build secure, AI-driven workflows with Terraform and Vault MCP servers — At AWS Summit NYC, we announced new MCP servers for HashiCorp Vault and HCP Vault Radar, along with updates for the official HashiCorp Terraform MCP server. By Gautam Baghel and Mike Doheny

Automatic target discovery with Boundary dynamic host catalog — Watch this demo of HashiCorp Boundary’s dynamic host catalog, which reduces administrative burden by providing automatic target discovery. By Van Phan

Managing Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) credentials at scale with Vault— Updating and distributing SSH keys across a fleet of machines without proper automation is time-consuming and error-prone. Learn how HashiCorp Vault and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform work together to simplify secure SSH access to remote hosts. By Pablo Diaz

📍Case study

Watch how Skechers streamlines infrastructure provisioning, standardizes deployment practices, shifts left on FinOps and security, and speeds up application delivery by embracing self-service and automation with HCP Terraform and ServiceNow. Read the full case study here.

🗓️ Upcoming webinars and workshops

August 26: Unlocking full self-service: A blueprint for your IaC maturity journey - In this webinar, you’ll learn how to empower your platform team to build a secure cloud operating model that gives developers the secure, self-service capabilities they need to innovate safely and at scale using HCP Terraform. 

September 3: Cloud Foundations: A hands-on workshop - Join us for a two-hour, hands-on session that demos why HCP Terraform is the gold standard for provisioning and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure. 

📅 Events

September 24-26: HashiConf 2025 - Join us in San Francisco for keynotes, technical sessions, hands-on labs, certifications, social events, and more. Featured sessions and speakers have just been announced. 

May 2025 - January 2026: HashiTalks Hub - Check out the full schedule of HashiTalks events in 2025. Join speakers of all experience levels and curious learners sharing knowledge virtually. 

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