Introducing the HashiQube
By: Tommy C
Tags: Terraform, DevOps, Devsecops, Hashicorp, Hashiqube

“The Borg’s primary objective is to assimilate species into their collective consciousness for their betterment”

“The Borg cube is one of the most formidable technologies known to the Federation. Its lack of identifiable function spaces — such as a bridge, engineering, or personnel quarters — reveals the hive-like Borg collective consciousness and its drones. It not only carries “smart” weaponry that adapts, but it also can analyze an opponent’s weapons systems and adapt defences within seconds.”

The HashiQube is a ‘smart’ tool wrapper forged through a ‘collective’ effort resulting in a ‘hive-like’ collection of ‘formidable’ open-source ‘technologies’ that when used in a collaboration provide hands-on ‘consciousness’ in various techniques that assist in learning to ‘analyze’ and ‘adapt defences’ to suit the organisation or operators needs.

Why not assimilate HashiQube into your life and see just how much you can accomplish using the worlds best automation tools!

Who are HashiCorp?

As per the HashiCorp website

HashiCorp builds tools to ease these decisions by presenting solutions that span the gaps. Our tools manage both physical machines and virtual machines, Windows, and Linux, SaaS and IaaS, etc. And we’re committed to supporting next-generation technologies, as well. HashiCorp was founded and continues to be run by the primary authors of all our core technologies powering thousands of companies worldwide. We speak at conferences and write books related to application and infrastructure management. All our foundational technologies are open source and developed openly, and have been since 2010.

What is the HashiQube?

HashiQube is a ‘collective’ offering created by Senior Security Engineer Thomas Cockin and Senior Automation Engineer Riaan Nolan to assist with demystifying automation and security, it enables all interested parties with the ability to run HashiCorp’s ‘best in class’ tools on their local machine at the cost of just a few installs (VirtualBox and Vagrant) and some local system resources.

The Qube provides all interested parties with a safe sandboxed environment for learning and experimentation

HashiQube runs all of HashiCorps current offerings…

Hashiqube runs all of HashiCorp current product offerings, along with some other popular open-source DevOps apps and tools right out the box, it’s flexible, reliable and can be configured to suit the operator's needs.

Furthermore, once the Qube has had its “vagrant up” an internet connection is no longer needed making, learning and experimenting much simpler and far less time-consuming.

Check out the repository today to get started on your journey.

“The only limitation is your imagination”

Why should I use the HashiQube?

The Qube helps all operators learn and develop with Hashicorp collective product suite without the need for a public cloud provider account.

The lab can be spun up quickly and destroyed even quicker.

Working in a local Virtualbox / Vagrant sandbox gives the operator the ability to experiment locally in a fast and comfortable manner ensuring a range of scenarios and tests can be explored without the risk of polluting the local laptop or running up costs in the public cloud.

Four more reasons;

A simple, robust, easy to deploy toolset not previously seen in a configured manner providing a secure CI/CD framework for experimentation, education and validation. A ‘Big Red Button’ approach to security by implementing Vault’s token-based secrets platform giving the operator peace of mind in the form of revolving/locking down) all credentials from Databases to Developers cloud console access in an efficient and timely manner. HashiQube provides a single control plane approach to Secure Development Environment experimentation that can be run locally with far less obscurity than previously seen The Qube helps in bringing all of HashiCorps tools into one environment ensuring a practical, hands-on understanding of how security can fit into all steps of the DevOps lifecycle.

What next?

Find out more about how HashiCorp and the HashiQube can help your business by checking out the Qube at the upcoming HashiTalks 24 hours remote event.

To find out more about how Servian and HashiCorp can empower your business to deliver software to market faster in a more secure and robust manner head to the Servian website or the Hashiqube repository and respective Github website to learn more.