Intel partners with HashiCorp to accelerate cloud migration

The cooperation between the two parties will provide infrastructure automation, policy and service support for platform-based teams

Recently, Intel announced a new cooperation with HashiCorp, aiming to help customers speed up cloud migration, reduce cloud load costs while improving its performance and security. HashiCorp provides open source and commercial software to help developers, operators and security experts automate the provision, protection, connection and operation of cloud computing infrastructure. Through this collaboration, HashiCorp will use built-in Intel® Xeon® Scalable accelerators to provide developers with Sentinel strategy recommendations to optimize workloads and improve the return on investment of cloud strategies.

Janet George, vice president and general manager of the Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Group at Intel Corporation, said: "We have found that providing customers with optimization through automated infrastructure provisioning can ensure that customers get the return and value of their cloud investments. With this cooperation, HashiCorp "We will make full use of Intel Xeon processor technology and create an Intel recommendation library through Policy as Code (PaC) to improve the developer's consumer experience."

As enterprises continue to move more workloads to the public cloud, developers are turning to reusable templates and code to provision the infrastructure needed to accelerate development. While this shift helps developers work faster, suboptimal infrastructure choices also increase cloud costs while exacerbating security risks and leading to workflow inefficiencies. For developers who need to configure infrastructure to run their applications, policies are an important part of standardizing infrastructure automation.

Terraform by HashiCorp is an infrastructure-as-code software tool that enables teams to create, change, and optimize infrastructure more securely and predictably. With Intel Xeon and Terraform Cloud, enterprises and institutions will have access to a powerful policy-as-code recommendation library, implemented in the form of HashiCorp Sentinel policies. This library of recommendations can help enterprises better support migration to public cloud providers, provision infrastructure, and coordinate business planning while avoiding costly redeployments. For example, during migration, the solution can recommend specific chip features or virtual machine instance types based on load characteristics to optimize performance and results. Over time, Intel's optimized workloads and corresponding Sentinel strategies will create greater value. Organizations will be able to leverage Intel's global ecosystem of renowned integration service providers and systems integrators to accelerate and support the implementation of new cloud computing resources and migration services, further closing potential skills gaps among enterprises.

Starting in early 2023, customers will be able to obtain Terraform Cloud, Sentinel policy, and migration services through the AWS and Azure App Stores.