HashiCorp Previews the Future of Agentic Infrastructure Automation with Project infragraph
HashiCorp, now an IBM company, unveiled Project infragraph at HashiConf 2025, marking a significant step towards agentic infrastructure automation. The project introduces a real-time infrastructure graph that connects infrastructure, applications, services, and ownership across hybrid cloud environments.
The company announced several key updates to their Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) capabilities. Notable features include HCP Terraform Stacks, enhanced secrets detection, and new security tools. The private beta for Project infragraph is expected to open in December 2025.
Project infragraph will integrate with IBM's broader software portfolio, including Red Hat Ansible, OpenShift, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, Concert, Turbonomic, and Cloudability, aiming to unify infrastructure, security, and applications under a consistent data and policy model.
- Integration with IBM's broader software portfolio enhances enterprise capabilities
- Real-time infrastructure visibility and monitoring across hybrid environments
- Enhanced automation and security features through new ILM and SLM capabilities
- Preparation for AI-driven infrastructure operations and management
- Project infragraph is still in development with beta starting December 2025
- Multiple features announced are in beta phase, indicating incomplete functionality
Insights
IBM's HashiCorp unveils Project infragraph, laying groundwork for AI-powered infrastructure automation with significant cross-product integration potential.
HashiCorp's introduction of Project infragraph represents a strategic evolution in IBM's cloud automation capabilities following its acquisition. This new infrastructure graph creates a unified system of record across hybrid environments—addressing a critical gap for enterprises struggling with fragmented visibility and complex Day 2 operations.
The technical significance here cannot be overstated. Project infragraph essentially builds a real-time relational model connecting infrastructure, applications, services, and ownership—creating the necessary foundation for future agentic (AI-powered autonomous) workflows. This positions IBM to capitalize on two converging enterprise trends: hybrid cloud complexity and AI operations.
From an integration perspective, IBM is clearly executing on cross-portfolio synergies. The planned connections between infragraph and IBM's broader software offerings (Red Hat Ansible, OpenShift, watsonx Orchestrate, Concert, Turbonomic, and Cloudability) creates a cohesive story for enterprises looking to unify infrastructure under consistent data and policy models.
The accompanying product updates across HashiCorp's portfolio demonstrate meaningful maturation, particularly in governance, security, and operational automation. The introduction of natural language interfaces via MCP servers across multiple products signals IBM is methodically embedding AI capabilities throughout the infrastructure stack.
For IBM investors, this represents tangible progress on the company's hybrid cloud and AI strategy. HashiCorp appears well-positioned as IBM's infrastructure automation arm, with Project infragraph potentially becoming the connective tissue between IBM's extensive software portfolio and the increasingly complex cloud environments their enterprise customers operate.
New Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle capabilities simplify hybrid operations and help move toward intelligent infrastructure operations
Infrastructure as code and identity-based security are typically foundational practices for cloud programs. But complexity continues to grow as organizations work to operationalize AI, and infrastructure can require more intelligence, integration, and autonomous operations. These announcements reflect this shift, built to advance the capabilities needed to operate efficiently today, while helping teams prepare for agentic workflows.
Introducing Project infragraph: The foundation for agentic infrastructure
As part of IBM, HashiCorp is accelerating its vision to deliver a unified control plane that extends across the hybrid cloud to support organizations of all sizes, operating across cloud environments.
Modern enterprises lack a unified system of record for infrastructure and security. Visibility can be fragmented, context lost, and Day 2 operations suffer. Project infragraph looks to solve these challenges, as a real-time infrastructure graph that connects infrastructure, applications, services, and ownership.
- Near real-time, relational visibility streamlines how teams access the data that matters most, across layers of infrastructure, from provisioning workflows to production environments.
- Tailored insights for platform and infrastructure teams deliver more clarity on application relationships, team ownership, and configuration context, assisting teams to more quickly make decisions.
- Flexible access to infrastructure context allows teams to power automation and enforce policy with greater precision via a unified view.
- Agentic workflow readiness prepares organizations to scale AI with infrastructure context to support future remediation, optimization, and planning workflows.
Project infragraph is planned to be delivered as a capability within the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). In the future, Project infragraph plans to extend HCP to connect to IBM's broader software portfolio, including Red Hat Ansible and OpenShift, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, Concert, Turbonomic, and Cloudability. This approach will help customers unify infrastructure, security, and applications under a consistent data and policy model.
With Project infragraph, infrastructure teams can begin solving long-standing challenges around visibility, ownership, and data governance—without the complexity of fragmented tooling. The vision of Project infragraph is that over time, as more capabilities are added, the same graph will enable AI to reason about infrastructure state, propose runbooks and configuration changes, and effectively act across the application lifecycle.
HashiCorp is now accepting applications for the private beta program for Project infragraph, which is expected to open in December 2025.
From Day 0 to Day N: What's new in ILM and SLM
Key Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) updates demonstrate how HashiCorp is helping teams address today's infrastructure and security challenges—while advancing towards intelligent operations.
Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM)
New ILM capabilities focus on making infrastructure provisioning, policy governance, and Day 2 operations faster, and more scalable across complex, hybrid environments.
- HCP Terraform Stacks (GA): Organize and deploy Terraform configurations across multiple infrastructure components and environments as a single management unit to simplify and address operational overhead.
- HCP Terraform search (beta): Accelerate infrastructure as code onboarding by enabling users to quickly discover and import resources in bulk, minimizing manual and error-prone processes.
- HCP Terraform actions (beta): Automate and streamline Day 2 infrastructure operations by codifying them directly alongside your infrastructure code, which helps address operational costs. This enables first-class integration between Terraform and Red Hat Ansible for end-to-end infrastructure as code.
- HCP Terraform hold your own key (GA): Provide customers with greater data control by leveraging a self-managed key to encrypt sensitive data, prioritizing data governance and security.
- HCP Terraform MCP server (beta): Manage infrastructure by using natural language to interact with private and public Terraform registries, trigger workspace runs, and gain validated, context-aware insights directly from an AI client or IDE.
- HCP Packer package visibility (beta) and SBOM storage (GA): Track image provenance and store software bill of materials (SBOMs) to prioritize supply chain security and audit readiness.
Security Lifecycle Management (SLM)
New SLM enhancements improve secrets detection, simplify secure access, and support policy governance for modern enterprise environments.
- HCP Boundary RDP credential injection (beta): Simplify secured remote access by injecting credentials directly into Windows RDP sessions, designed to solve concerns around exposing secrets to end users.
- HCP Vault Radar Jira SaaS scanning (GA) and IDE plugin enhancement (beta): Address risk before deployment by detecting and surfacing exposed secrets earlier in the development process within developer IDEs and in tickets created in Jira.
- HCP Vault Radar MCP server (beta): Interface directly with HCP Vault Radar using natural language and integrate with other security agents using MCP.
- HCP Vault Dedicated - AWS PrivateLink (GA): Enhance private networking and prioritize compliance and security requirements by streamlining connectivity with AWS PrivateLink.
- HCP Vault Dedicated - Azure DNS (beta): Customer-managed DNS forwarding and resolution for Azure based HCP Vault Dedicated cluster.
- HCP Vault Dedicated - secrets inventory reporting (beta): Drive security posture improvements by gaining visibility into secret usage, stale secrets, and adoption trends.
- Vault Enterprise 1.21 (expected October 2025): Automate cryptographic workflows, enable post-quantum readiness, and enforce zero-trust controls with new APIs and capabilities
- Vault MCP server (beta): Manage secrets and sensitive data by using natural language to perform Vault queries and operations, including creating, listing, and deleting key-value mounts and their secrets.
"HashiCorp's latest product updates and the introduction of Project infragraph signal more than product momentum—they represent the evolution of a platform that can unify infrastructure and security data, and accelerate intelligent decision-making," said Armon Dadgar, CTO and co-founder of HashiCorp. "We're focused on helping customers build secured, scalable cloud programs that are ready for AI and drive value to every stakeholder."
"Project infragraph is a major step toward infrastructure that can observe, reason, and act," said Dinesh Nirmal, Senior Vice President, IBM Software. "By combining automation with real-time infrastructure intelligence, we are creating the control layer that unlocks the next era of AI-powered operations."
Information about HashiConf 2025
HashiConf is HashiCorp's global cloud conference, featuring 2+ days of conversations on the future of cloud automation with product announcements, technical sessions, hands-on labs, certifications, social events, and more. HashiConf 2025 is sponsored by AWS, Microsoft, Arrow, Atyeti, Coder, Clumio, Datadog, Gomboc, Google Cloud, Mondoo, Overmind, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, River Point Technology, TD Synnex, and Wiz. To register for a free virtual pass to HashiConf — with access to a dedicated platform to view the live-streamed keynotes, educational content, and live chat with online attendees, as well as access to all virtual sessions on demand after the event — visit the conference website.
Availability
All product announcements are available as referenced above, with more details available at hashicorp.com.
Organizations interested in shaping the future of agentic infrastructure automation are invited to apply for the Project infragraph private beta.
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About HashiCorp
HashiCorp, an IBM company, helps organizations automate hybrid cloud environments with Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management. HashiCorp offers The Infrastructure Cloud on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) for managed cloud services, as well as self-hosted enterprise offerings and community source-available products. For more information, visit hashicorp.com.
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