HashiCast

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in product release cadences, Packer 1.15, Consul 1.22.6, and the release candidate for Vault 2.0.0.

PODCAST NOTES
Changes to Product Release Cadence: https://support.hashicorp.com/hc/en-us/articles/48015293517203-Changes-to-HashiCorp-Self-Managed-Enterprise-Product-Release-Cadence-and-Support
HashiCorp support site migrated: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7254264
Packer 1.15: https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/docs/provisioners/hcp-sbom
Vault 2.0.0-rc1: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#200-rc1
Consul 1.22.6: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/releases/tag/v1.22.6
Consul-k8s: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/releases/tag/v1.9.6

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss how to use Terraform and Packer agent skills, explorer in Terraform Enterprise 1.2, and caching in Vault Secrets Operator 1.3.0.

Podcast Notes
- GO-2026-4337: https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4337
- Vault Secrets Operator 1.3.0: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator/releases/tag/v1.3.0
- Terraform Enterprise 1.2: https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-enterprise-12-upgrades-workflows-visibility-and-brownfield-migration
- Agent Skills: https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/introducing-hashicorp-agent-skills
- Understanding instructions, context, skills and MCP servers for code generation by Sam McGeown: https://www.definit.co.uk/2026/03/understanding-instructions-context-skills-and-mcp-servers-for-code-generation/

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in HCP Terraform, Terraform, Vault, and the Vault ecosystem including remote state sharing across projects, ephemeral resources in the Vault provider, and a sneak peek at the deprecated attribute in Terraform.

Podcast Notes
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/workspaces/settings#remote-state-sharing
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/v1.15.0-alpha20260204/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vault/releases/tag/v5.7.0
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/releases/tag/v1.21.2
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-helm/releases/tag/v0.32.0
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator/releases/tag/v1.2.0

This episode features Ming Zhao, developer at IBM and contributor to Docling.

Join us as we learn the basics of RAG, how Docling processes documents for AI, and our most and least favorite cheeses.

PODCAST NOTES
Docling: https://github.com/docling-project/docling

Michael Kosir and Rosemary Wang (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) recap AWS re:Invent and discuss Terraform 1.14, including the query CLI command.

Podcast Notes:
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/re-invent-2025-how-hashicorp-and-aws-are-simplifying-cloud-operations
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/day-2-infrastructure-management-with-terraform-actions
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.14.0
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/v1.14.x/import/bulk