HashiCorp and IBM Launch HCP Terraform with Infragraph: Public Preview Promises Real-Time Infrastructure Visibility

HashiCorp and IBM Launch HCP Terraform with Infragraph: Public Preview Promises Real-Time Infrastructure Visibility

NEW YORK — August 14, 2025 — HashiCorp, now part of IBM, today unveiled a public preview of HCP Terraform powered by Infragraph, a centralized knowledge graph designed to give platform teams unified, real-time visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The announcement was made at IBM Think, marking a significant step toward tackling the growing complexity of cloud infrastructure management. Qualified US HCP Terraform customers can begin using the functionality immediately.

“Infragraph is a game-changer for platform teams drowning in siloed data,” said Sarah Chen, Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure at HashiCorp. “Instead of cobbling together outdated snapshots from multiple tools, teams now get a dynamic, event-driven view of their entire infrastructure estate.”

The Problem: Cloud Complexity and ‘Dirty Data’

Enterprises migrating to the cloud often find that speed and scale come at the cost of clarity. On average, companies use five or more services to manage their cloud landscape, according to HashiCorp research. Infrastructure data ends up scattered across silos, making it nearly impossible to get a unified picture.

Platform teams resort to manual consolidation, but by the time the data is ready for analysis, it is already out of date. This “dirty data” slows response times, leads to unexpected spending, and complicates security patching—especially as AI-accelerated attacks target vulnerabilities faster than ever.

How Infragraph Works

Infragraph replaces static insights with dynamic updates. It ingests data from across an organization’s full infrastructure estate—servers, VMs, cloud services, and more—building a live knowledge graph. Assets are regularly updated through event-driven mechanisms, ensuring teams always have accurate, fresh information.

“Real-time visibility is no longer a nice-to-have,” Chen added. “With Infragraph, teams can proactively detect cost spikes, security risks, and ownership gaps before they escalate.”

Background: The Evolution of Infrastructure Management

The promise of cloud was simplicity, but the reality for many enterprises is a patchwork of tools, manual processes, and “normal” silos. This fragmentation makes it hard to track who owns which resources, complicates compliance, and drives up costs.

HashiCorp’s Terraform has long been a leader in infrastructure-as-code, enabling teams to provision and manage resources across clouds. The addition of Infragraph—a centralized knowledge graph—takes this a step further by providing the visibility layer that has been missing. The technology was developed in collaboration with IBM Research, leveraging graph database and event-driven architecture.

What This Means for Platform Teams

For platform teams, Infragraph shifts the paradigm from reactive firefighting to proactive optimization. Security patching becomes faster because vulnerabilities are identified in real time. Cost management improves as anomalous usage spikes trigger alerts before bills balloon.

Perhaps most importantly, Infragraph lays the foundation for AI-driven automation. With a clean, dynamic knowledge graph, organizations can train AI models to automate provisioning, scaling, and remediation workflows—unlocking the next era of infrastructure self-management.

“The AI era demands infrastructure that is not just programmable but observable,” Chen said. “Infragraph is the first step toward making AI-powered operations a reality.”

HCP Terraform customers interested in the public preview can sign up through the HashiCorp Cloud Platform portal. The feature is initially available only to qualified US-based users, with a wider rollout planned later this year.