Since August 2023, there has been ongoing discourse surrounding HashiCorp’s licensing changes and the implications for enterprise Platforms that rely on its products, particularly Terraform and Vault. This change has sparked significant concern and uncertainty among organisations that have built their Enterprise Platforms using these Products.
Looking specifically at Terraform, this whitepaper adopts a Program Management perspective to evaluate the risks posed to Enterprise Platforms by these August 2023 licence changes in order to answer the following questions:
- How do we mitigate the risk of this uncertainty?
- Are any mitigation options valid?
- Will my Platform circumstances impact my mitigation choice?