HashiCorp created the infrastructure-as-code movement and maintains the most widely deployed open-source DevOps tools: Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, Vault for secrets management, and Consul for service mesh and networking. HashiCorp certifications validate production-level expertise with tools used across all three major cloud providers and by the majority of organizations with mature DevOps practices.
Terraform has become the de-facto standard for cloud infrastructure provisioning, and Terraform Associate is one of the most sought-after DevOps credentials. HashiCorp certifications demonstrate cloud-agnostic infrastructure skills that transfer across AWS, Azure, and GCP — a significant advantage in multi-cloud environments and consulting roles.
HashiCorp • Consul-Associate
Validates knowledge of HashiCorp Consul for service networking, covering Consul architecture and deployment, service registration and discovery, health checking, service mesh with intentions and traffic management, and the key/value store for configuration management.
HashiCorp • Terraform-Associate
Validates knowledge of infrastructure as code concepts and the ability to use HashiCorp Terraform in production, covering resource lifecycle management, HCL configuration, providers and modules, state management, and collaborative workflows with HCP Terraform.
HashiCorp • Vault-Associate
Validates knowledge of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and data protection, covering authentication methods, policies and tokens, lease management, static and dynamic secrets engines, encryption as a service, and Vault architecture including high availability.