HashiCorp is an infrastructure software company founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. The company’s own About page states its goal is to address “some of the hardest, most important problems in infrastructure management,” with open-source software at the foundation of its offerings.
The company began as a vehicle to develop Vagrant full time. In the founding announcement, published November 27, 2012, Hashimoto introduced himself as the creator of Vagrant and laid out the plan: better documentation, a provider system to decouple Vagrant from VirtualBox, a plugin system, and commercial support and add-ons - while promising that the core tool would stay open source and that no paid features would be required to use it.
From that base, HashiCorp built a broad product suite covering distinct areas of infrastructure: Terraform for infrastructure as code, Vault for secrets management, Consul for service networking, Nomad for workload orchestration, Packer for image building, plus Boundary, Waypoint, and the original Vagrant. Several of these became de facto standards in their categories.
HashiCorp’s tools, and Terraform in particular, were central to the rise of cloud-native operations and the infrastructure-as-code movement. The company was later acquired by IBM, but its products remain widely used across the industry.