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0 pointsbusterarm2y ago0 comments

Hashicorp isn't going to budge here. The same argument that you've made about Terraform being the underpinnings and needing to be open-sourced can be applied to their other important products like Vault, Consul and Nomad as well. The ecosystem of those three is plainly a direct competitor to Kubernetes which is open-source.

There's really no move for them to make here. It's unfortunate.

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fishpen02y ago

Tons of organizations run vault and consul as part of their k8s ecosystem so they don't directly compete. The vault CSI driver might be the single most installed CSI driver across all the orgs I've worked for

busterarmOP2y ago

You're completely missing it.

If you are running Nomad as your orchestrator, because of the tight integrations you are almost certainly running vault for secrets and consul for service discovery/service mesh. The ecosystem of the three is the competitor to K8s.

s/ someone who runs both ecosystems at scale.

twunde2y ago

While the Nomad stack is a direct competitor to k8s, Consul and Vault are both heavily used alongside k8s. In fact, Consul had features that were only for k8s the last time I checked

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