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0 pointssmt886y ago0 comments

I'm honestly surprised to see Hashicorp mentioned here, not because I've read their code, but because I had so many hours of tear-my-hair-out misery using their products.

I found them so under-tested and buggy that finally I just gave up. They're now blacklisted in my mind -- I'll never use one of their products again.

I guess the lesson here is that good code doesn't always have a strong relationship to a usable or bug-free product.

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bamboozled6y ago

I think you should reconsider, I use their products daily (terraform) and have absolutely no issues?

smt88OP6y ago

To do what, though? All of their products are available elsewhere, but better integrated into our stack and IDE.

jan_g6y ago

Have you by any chance also used their Vault[0]? I'm looking at solutions for secrets management and theirs is mentioned often.

[0] https://www.vaultproject.io/

smt88OP6y ago

I haven't and am not sure whom the target audience is exactly.

Azure and AWS have secrets management, and most stacks have some open-source way to do it if you're the roll-your-own-server type.

jan_g6y ago

Yeah, cloud option isn't available for the product we're building (very specific needs with regards to data and services geo location).

But to me it looks like that the target audience is anyone operating a Kubernetes cluster as it seems to be the most mature option for managing secrets that is also well integrated into Kubernetes. And their open source version already provides quite a few features.

At least that's the vibe I got from reading various comparisons and blog posts about secrets management.

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0 pointssmt886y ago0 comments

I'm honestly surprised to see Hashicorp mentioned here, not because I've read their code, but because I had so many hours of tear-my-hair-out misery using their products.

I found them so under-tested and buggy that finally I just gave up. They're now blacklisted in my mind -- I'll never use one of their products again.

I guess the lesson here is that good code doesn't always have a strong relationship to a usable or bug-free product.

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bamboozled6y ago

I think you should reconsider, I use their products daily (terraform) and have absolutely no issues?

smt88OP6y ago

To do what, though? All of their products are available elsewhere, but better integrated into our stack and IDE.

jan_g6y ago

Have you by any chance also used their Vault[0]? I'm looking at solutions for secrets management and theirs is mentioned often.

[0] https://www.vaultproject.io/

smt88OP6y ago

I haven't and am not sure whom the target audience is exactly.

Azure and AWS have secrets management, and most stacks have some open-source way to do it if you're the roll-your-own-server type.

jan_g6y ago

Yeah, cloud option isn't available for the product we're building (very specific needs with regards to data and services geo location).

At least that's the vibe I got from reading various comparisons and blog posts about secrets management.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse