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A meta‐analysis on peer‐to‐peer accommodation adoption
1 INTRODUCTION Sharing economy, an emerging business model, facilitates the shared creation and consumption of products and services between individuals (Baumber et al., 2021; Wirtz et al., 2019). According to Wirtz et al. (2019), compared with a traditional business model which is usually one-sided, sharing economy is a multisided business model that facilitates value co-creation by all stakeholders involved within this eco-system.
Terraform Cloud now supports policy runtime version management
Policies are rules that HashiCorp Terraform Cloud enforces at the Terraform run phase that can help with security, compliance, and cost management. Policies can be defined in Terraform Cloud using Sentinel and the Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy as code frameworks.
6 ways Terraform can help secure your infrastructure
The way organizations provision infrastructure has significantly changed as they move from dedicated servers to capacity on-demand in the cloud. Homogeneous blueprints of infrastructure owned by IT have grown inefficient and outdated. In the cloud, infrastructure resources must be readily available across a variety of providers.
Terraform Cloud now supports multiple configurations for dynamic provider credentials
Earlier this year, we built upon the workload identity functionality in HashiCorp Terraform Cloud by adding a new authentication method, dynamic provider credentials, for the major cloud providers, the HashiCorp Vault provider, and Vault’s dynamic secrets engines. This native support lets users authenticate to providers using short-lived, just-in-time credentials in their Terraform Cloud workflows.
HCP Packer improves usage visibility with audit logs
Key benefits of audit logs Collecting activity data with HCP Packer’s audit logs helps organizations improve their: Visibility: by enabling administrators to actively monitor a stream of user activity and answer important questions such as who is changing what? When? And where?
HCP Packer improves channels and furthers integration with Terraform
HCP Packer, a powerful tool for tracking and managing image artifacts across multi-cloud environments, has just released two new features: Restricted channels Channel management with Terraform Channels let you label and track image iterations and give you control over the delivery of your artifacts. These new additions provide further permissions control for your image channels and help enable a golden image pipeline with Terraform.
Terraform Cloud adds Vault-backed dynamic credentials
In March 2023, we announced the general availability of dynamic provider credentials in HashiCorp Terraform Cloud. This feature automates the creation of short-lived credentials for the officially supported cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) and the HashiCorp Vault provider. Initially, the Vault integration supported only static secrets engines for use within Terraform configurations.
Introducing channel assignment history and rollback for HCP Packer
HCP Packer, a powerful tool for creating and tracking image artifacts across multi-cloud environments, has just released two new features: channel assignment history and channel rollback. These additions provide further visibility into image channels and enable a simple, one-click remediation workflow. This post will cover some challenges of artifact management and explain how HCP Packer’s new features aim to solve them.
Dynamic provider credentials now generally available for Terraform Cloud
We are excited to announce the general availability of dynamic provider credentials, an authentication model for Terraform Cloud that’s also coming soon to Terraform Enterprise. Initially launched as a public beta in January, dynamic provider credentials help users create short-lived, just-in-time (JIT) credentials for HashiCorp Vault and the official Terraform providers for the major cloud vendors (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud).
Native OPA Support in Terraform Cloud Is Now Generally Available
We are excited to announce native Open Policy Agent (OPA) support for Terraform Cloud is now generally available. First launched as a public beta during HashiConf Global 2022, this feature extends the policy as code capabilities of Terraform Cloud to support OPA. OPA is based on the Rego policy language and works alongside Sentinel to increase the number of supported ways customers can adopt a policy as code framework for secure multi-cloud provisioning.
Terraform Cloud Adds Dynamic Provider Credentials for Vault and Official Cloud Providers
We are excited to announce the release of dynamic provider credentials, a new authentication model now available in public beta for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud. Dynamic provider credentials help users create short-lived, just-in-time (JIT) credentials for HashiCorp Vault and the official Terraform providers for the major cloud vendors. This post discusses the benefits of dynamic vs. static credentials and reviews the details of the new authentication method.
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