San Francisco, September 25, 2025 — At the 10th edition of HashiConf, an annual conference organized by HashiCorp, the company unveiled a range of new innovations in infrastructure and security lifecycle management. This event was particularly significant as it marked HashiCorp’s first conference since becoming part of IBM. Among the key announcements was the introduction of Project infragraph, a strategic development for the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) aimed at pioneering agentic infrastructure.
Understanding Project infragraph: Revolutionizing Infrastructure Management
HashiCorp, now under the umbrella of IBM, is accelerating its mission to create a unified control plane that spans hybrid cloud environments, catering to businesses of all sizes. Currently, many enterprises struggle with fragmented systems that lack a cohesive record for infrastructure and security, leading to visibility issues and operational inefficiencies. Project infragraph is designed to address these challenges by providing a real-time infrastructure graph that links infrastructure, applications, services, and ownership.
Project infragraph aims to provide nearly real-time, relational visibility, facilitating easy access to essential data across various infrastructure layers. This capability will help streamline workflows from initial provisioning to production environments. Additionally, it will offer tailored insights for platform and infrastructure teams, enhancing their understanding of application relationships, team ownership, and configuration contexts, thereby enabling quicker decision-making. The platform also promises flexible access to infrastructure contexts, empowering teams to enforce policies and automate processes with greater accuracy.
As organizations increasingly aim to scale AI applications, Project infragraph is positioned to support future workflows involving remediation, optimization, and planning. The project is set to be integrated as a feature within the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). In the future, it plans to extend its connectivity to IBM’s broader software suite, including Red Hat Ansible and OpenShift, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, Concert, Turbonomic, and Cloudability. This integration is intended to provide customers with a unified model for managing infrastructure, security, and applications.
By providing a cohesive platform, Project infragraph aims to resolve long-standing issues related to visibility, ownership, and data governance, eliminating the need for fragmented tools. Over time, it is envisioned that Project infragraph will enable AI to analyze infrastructure states, suggest runbooks and configuration modifications, and effectively manage application lifecycles.
HashiCorp is currently accepting applications for the private beta program of Project infragraph, which is expected to commence in December 2025.
Advancements in Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management
HashiCorp’s latest updates in Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) underscore their commitment to addressing contemporary challenges while paving the way for intelligent operations.
Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM)
New ILM features focus on enhancing infrastructure provisioning, policy governance, and day-to-day operations to ensure scalability across complex, hybrid environments. Key updates include:
- HCP Terraform Stacks (GA): This feature enables the organization and deployment of Terraform configurations across various infrastructure components and environments, simplifying management and reducing operational overhead.
- HCP Terraform search (beta): Aids in rapidly onboarding infrastructure as code by allowing users to discover and import resources in bulk, minimizing manual efforts and reducing errors.
- HCP Terraform actions (beta): Facilitates automation and streamlining of Day 2 infrastructure operations by integrating them directly with infrastructure code, thereby reducing operational costs.
- HCP Terraform hold your own key (GA): Provides customers with enhanced data control by allowing them to use a self-managed key for encrypting sensitive data, emphasizing data governance and security.
- HCP Terraform MCP server (beta): Allows infrastructure management through natural language interactions with private and public Terraform registries, triggering workspace runs, and gaining validated, context-aware insights from an AI client or IDE.
- HCP Packer package visibility (beta) and SBOM storage (GA): Enables tracking of image provenance and storage of software bill of materials (SBOMs), prioritizing supply chain security and audit readiness.
Security Lifecycle Management (SLM)
SLM enhancements aim to improve secrets detection, simplify secure access, and bolster policy governance for modern enterprises. Some of the key updates include:
- HCP Boundary RDP credential injection (beta): Simplifies secure remote access by injecting credentials directly into Windows RDP sessions, addressing concerns about exposing secrets to end-users.
- HCP Vault Radar Jira SaaS scanning (GA) and IDE plugin enhancement (beta): Mitigates risk before deployment by detecting exposed secrets early in the development process within developer IDEs and Jira tickets.
- HCP Vault Radar MCP server (beta): Facilitates interaction with HCP Vault Radar using natural language and integration with other security agents.
- HCP Vault Dedicated – AWS PrivateLink (GA): Enhances private networking and prioritizes compliance and security requirements through streamlined connectivity with AWS PrivateLink.
- HCP Vault Dedicated – Azure DNS (beta): Offers customer-managed DNS forwarding and resolution for Azure-based HCP Vault Dedicated clusters.
- HCP Vault Dedicated – secrets inventory reporting (beta): Improves security posture by providing visibility into secret usage, stale secrets, and adoption trends.
- Vault Enterprise 1.21 (expected October 2025): Automates cryptographic workflows, enables post-quantum readiness, and enforces zero-trust controls with new APIs and capabilities.
- Vault MCP server (beta): Manages secrets and sensitive data using natural language to perform Vault queries and operations, including creating, listing, and deleting key-value mounts and their secrets.
Armon Dadgar, CTO and co-founder of HashiCorp, stated, "HashiCorp’s latest product updates and the introduction of Project infragraph signal more than product momentum—they represent the evolution of a platform that can unify infrastructure and security data and accelerate intelligent decision-making. We’re focused on helping customers build secured, scalable cloud programs that are ready for AI and drive value to every stakeholder."
Dinesh Nirmal, Senior Vice President of IBM Software, commented, "Project infragraph is a major step toward infrastructure that can observe, reason, and act. By combining automation with real-time infrastructure intelligence, we are creating the control layer that unlocks the next era of AI-powered operations."
About HashiConf 2025
HashiConf is HashiCorp’s global cloud conference, offering over two days of discussions on the future of cloud automation, featuring product announcements, technical sessions, hands-on labs, certifications, and social events. HashiConf 2025 is sponsored by AWS, Microsoft, Arrow, Atyeti, Coder, Clumio, Datadog, Gomboc, Google Cloud, Mondoo, Overmind, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, River Point Technology, TD Synnex, and Wiz. Those interested in participating virtually can register for a free pass on the conference website, providing access to live-streamed keynotes, educational content, and virtual sessions on demand.
Availability and Future Directions
All product announcements are available with more detailed information on HashiCorp’s website. Organizations eager to be part of the evolution of agentic infrastructure automation are encouraged to apply for the Project infragraph private beta.
IBM’s statements regarding future directions and intentions are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.
About HashiCorp
HashiCorp is a leader in the field of infrastructure automation for multi-cloud environments, with a mission to enable organizations to create and operate secure, scalable cloud programs. As an IBM company, HashiCorp continues to innovate and lead in the realm of cloud infrastructure management.
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