Episode 42 - Ming Zhao, IBM

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

Michael Kosir and Kerim Satirli (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in Terraform and Vault, including Terraform Stacks, Terraform Search, Terraform Actions as well as the future of agentic infrastructure automation with Project Infragraph. Podcast Notes: - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/day-2-infrastructure-management-with-terraform-actions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P8MrvrHia4 - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/building-intelligent-infrastructure-automation-with-hashicorp - https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/updates/release-notes

Michael Kosir (Developer Advocate at HashiCorp) covers what's new in Terraform, Packer, and the upcoming conference season. Terraform Stacks in the command line, a Packer plugin registry migration, and a major version for the Terraform Google provider. Podcast Notes: - https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/important-update-official-packer-plugin-distribution-moving-to-releases-hashicorp-com/75972 - https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/releases/tag/v1.14.0 - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.13.0 - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-stacks-explained - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/releases/tag/v7.0.0 - https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/guides/version_7_upgrade