Hashicorp made a license change into a BSL, a business license which is not open source that allows or makes code available, but instead restricts the use of Hashicorp products to people who are effectively paying customers or enterprise customers. 

If you're embedding or repackaging the software or competing with Hashicorp, you are prohibited from using it. We spent this podcast looking into why, how, and what implications there were, as well as historical precedents.

References
* https://www.runtime.news/hashicorp-closes-a-door/
* https://opentf.org
* https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-open-ab0b9ba65bca
* https://spacelift.io/blog/spacelift-latest-statement-on-hashicorp-bsl 
* https://ir.hashicorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hashicorp-announces-first-quarter-financial-results-fiscal-0
* https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#competitive-product-bsl-coverage 
* https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rhirschfeld_hashicorp-closes-a-door-activity-7097631727665233920-MxcP/ 


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Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/ZjTzZZiYh_dXri3rSkjkD50GPuc?utm_source=copy_url

Hashicorp BSL vs OSS License Discussion

The TerraForm fork, now known as the OpenTofu project, is our first topic in today’s episode. We discuss what's going on with that, the challenges, as well as the potential pressures from HashiCorp that created this whole situation.

How do we get experts to recover their authority and how do we look at organizations like that? We have about 20 minutes of really involved conversation about the book, Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols, from the previous podcast. If you haven't heard our first part of the conversation, I suggest you go back and listen to our full Death of Expertise podcast.

We cover two topics, one of them short term and one of them long term. So it’s a nice, balanced industry discussion around what the fork means, what its impacts are and a little bit of recap. There's some really spicy opinions around 32 minutes in if you want to jump forward, we resume our discussion about death of expertise.


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Tofu vs a Death of Expertise

Sarbjeet and Sarah pay tribute to the unfolding situation in Israel. Musings about news coming from Microsoft about the Activision acquisition and potential alternative energy sources for the datacenter, also the Biden administration's position on exports of AI chips to China. Updates on Hashicorp and what it means for the enterprise. Sarbjeet rants about Congress, sparking a lively exchange, and Sarah reaches back into American history for context. Reflections on the Israeli tech community.

Episode 07: Alternative Energy, AI Chips to China, Hashicorp's Direction, and Tribute to Israel

This is our annual year review and prediction episode and it is a doozy. We talk through what has been an incredibly busy year in Open Source, cloud repre, repatriation, AI, ML, chatGPT. 

We laid down some really interesting insights and then looked forward not just into 2024 but two years of predictions and trends that we see happening. We cover what we think will be shaking, shaping and shaking the market.

References
https://basecamp.com/cloud-exit
https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/13Wdve1WQVCPjXtsf8QnJtg6r0M?utm_source=copy_url
DALL-E Prompt: futeristic graphic of a hall of mirrors with 2023 turning into 2024 and the cast of the wizard of oz

2023 Year In Review

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss new releases like Vault and Nomad on IBM Z and LinuxONE, Nomad 1.10, and HCP Vault Radar as well as updated features to HCP Boundary and the Terraform Enterprise provider.

Podcast Notes
- https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-vault-self-managed-for-z-and-linuxone-and-ibm-nomad-self-managed-for-z-and-linuxone-generally-available
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/nomad-1-10-adds-dynamic-host-volumes-extended-oidc-support-and-more
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/products/vault/hcp-vault-radar
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/boundary/configure-ttl
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-tfe/releases/tag/v0.65.0

CHANGELOG - Nomad 1.10 & HCP Vault Radar

In episode 16 of Open Source Ready, Brian and John sit down with Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp, to discuss his journey after leaving the company and his latest passion project, the open source terminal emulator Ghostty. Mitchell shares the accidental origins of Ghostty, his pragmatic approach to technology, and his thoughts on the current state of open source business models. Lastly, they explore the complexities of AI development and the trade-offs of foundation governance.

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Open Source Ready - Ep. #16, Building Tools That Spark Joy with Mitchell Hashimoto

Michael Kosir (developer advocate) and Meredith Duflock (product manager) discuss what's new in Vault 1.20, Terraform AWS Provider v6, Terraform Vault Provider v5, and HCP Waypoint including enhanced region support, ephemeral resources, rate limit quotes, and the general availability of HCP Waypoint Actions.

Podcast Notes:
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/hcp-waypoint-actions-now-ga
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vault/releases/tag/v5.0.0
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-aws-provider-6-0-now-generally-available
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/vault-enterprise-1-20-scep-usage-reporting-cloud-secret-imports


CHANGELOG - HCP Waypoint Actions & Vault 1.20

Michael Kosir (Developer Advocate) and Gautam Baghel (Partner Solutions Engineer) recap HashiDays: London and HashiDays: Singapore, discuss new features in HCP Terraform, HCP Vault Radar, and the release of MCP Servers for Vault and Vault Radar.

Podcast Notes:
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/conferences/hashidays
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/build-secure-ai-driven-workflows-with-new-terraform-and-vault-mcp-servers
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vault/private-dns
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/agents/agent-pools#scope-an-agent-pool-to-specific-projects
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOANluSqAE


CHANGELOG - HCP Terraform, Vault MCP Server, & Vault Radar MCP Server

Michael Kosir (Developer Advocate at HashiCorp) covers what's new in Terraform, Packer, and the upcoming conference season. Terraform Stacks in the command line, a Packer plugin registry migration, and a major version for the Terraform Google provider.

Podcast Notes:
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/important-update-official-packer-plugin-distribution-moving-to-releases-hashicorp-com/75972
- https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/releases/tag/v1.14.0
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.13.0
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-stacks-explained
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/releases/tag/v7.0.0
- https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/guides/version_7_upgrade

CHANGELOG - Terraform 1.13 & Packer 1.14

Michael Kosir and Kerim Satirli (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in Terraform and Vault, including Terraform Stacks, Terraform Search, Terraform Actions as well as the future of agentic infrastructure automation with Project Infragraph.

Podcast Notes:
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/day-2-infrastructure-management-with-terraform-actions
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P8MrvrHia4
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/building-intelligent-infrastructure-automation-with-hashicorp
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/updates/release-notes

CHANGELOG - Terraform Stacks, Terraform Search, Terraform Actions & Project InfraGraph

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