HashiCorp Vault 0.9
I&#x27;m one of the co-founders of HashiCorp, and I wanted to just chime in on the release. We may have done a disservice in the blog post by highlighting the new features landing in the Enterprise versions, because it obscures all the new functionality and work that has gone into the open source. We call out some of these at the bottom of the post, but just for the sake of clarity:<p>* Identity &#x2F; Group Management. This sounds like a minor bullet point, but an incredible amount of work went into supporting a unified identity system that could span multiple external identity brokers. Our goal was to allow Vault to act as a broker between many Identity Providers and apply a consistent access control and group management scheme to all of theme. This was something we originally landed in Enterprise with 0.8 so that we could bake it with a smaller number of customers and have since brought to open source as we feel more confident in the implementation and APIs.<p>* GCE integration. This is part of our ongoing partnership with Google and our goal of natively integrating Vault with all the common platforms our users want to use.<p>* K8S integration. Again, this is about the last mile integration into the platforms users want and is in the open source.<p>* Oracle database integration. The database backend provides dynamic secret functionality across a number of RDBMS and NoSQL systems, and we are continuing to broaden the supported systems.<p>* RSA support for transit encryption. The transit backend allows Vault to do key management and cryptographic offload, and we are continuing to extend the algorithms and operation types that are supported.<p>* Lazy loading of leases. Common feedback from our large scale users was that failover could take many minutes. We&#x27;ve improved the loading of leases and other metadata to be asynchronous resulting in a dramatically faster failovers for large scale deployments.<p>* Lots of other bug fixes and minor improvements.<p>This is only a small sample of what has been added in the Vault 0.8.3 and 0.9 releases as open source. In the last 6 months, we’ve added more to the OSS than ever before, because Vault Enterprise has allowed us to grow the team. By adding a small subset of features to our Pro and Premium Enterprise offerings we are able to continue developing Vault, and we take  a similar approach for our other tools. I totally understand the frustration about our opaque pricing, and this is because we are still making pricing adjustments as we refine our fit and better understand the many different use cases customers have.<p>Mitchell has publically stated and I&#x27;ll repeat, that our goal is to publish both our framework of determining what is open source versus commercial (largely a focus on compliance, governance, and collaboration) as well as our public pricing. Our goal is to be as transparent as possible, while still accommodating the need to understand product&#x2F;market fit, refine pricing, and be a solvent business.