HashiCorp Stack – Yes or No?

Question

Consul, Nomad and Vault promise to solve all the concerns that a service mesh cluster may have. It&rsquo;s exactly what we need: generic, open source, good adoption, supports vm workloads, not kube, etc.. Yet. The documentation is horrible. Awful mess that confuses more than helps. I know that this stack work, and supposedly organizations use it to deploy infra at scale. Yet, with the state of things it would take us months to get up and running with a good setup - just because there is no way to have a guide or a reference on how to properly do stuff. This is my last attempt to reach out and understand if it&rsquo;s just me? And is there any solution?

gtirloni · Accepted Answer

> It&rsquo;s exactly what we need: generic, open source, good adoption, supports vm workloads, not kube, etcI think it's not open source anymore. Just source available.

PaulHoule · Answer

It&rsquo;s not just you. The fact that they keep adding new modules with new names is a big part of the problem, it shows they don&rsquo;t have a cohesive plan.

vmatsiiako · Answer

For a more understandable open source Vault alternative, I&rsquo;d recommend you look into Infisical.Disclaimer: I&rsquo;m one of the founders

HashiCorp Stack – Yes or No?

> It’s exactly what we need: generic, open source, good adoption, supports vm workloads, not kube, etc
I think it's not open source anymore. Just source available.

It’s not just you. The fact that they keep adding new modules with new names is a big part of the problem, it shows they don’t have a cohesive plan.

For a more understandable open source Vault alternative, I’d recommend you look into Infisical.
Disclaimer: I’m one of the founders