Episode 42 - Ming Zhao, IBM

CHANGELOG - Release Cadence Updates & Vault 2.0.0

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in product release cadences, Packer 1.15, Consul 1.22.6, and the release candidate for Vault 2.0.0. PODCAST NOTES Changes to Product Release Cadence: https://support.hashicorp.com/hc/en-us/articles/48015293517203-Changes-to-HashiCorp-Self-Managed-Enterprise-Product-Release-Cadence-and-Support HashiCorp support site migrated: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7254264 Packer 1.15: https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/docs/provisioners/hcp-sbom Vault 2.0.0-rc1: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#200-rc1 Consul 1.22.6: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/releases/tag/v1.22.6 Consul-k8s: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/releases/tag/v1.9.6

CHANGELOG - Agent Skills & Terraform Enterprise 1.2

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss how to use Terraform and Packer agent skills, explorer in Terraform Enterprise 1.2, and caching in Vault Secrets Operator 1.3.0. Podcast Notes - GO-2026-4337: https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4337 - Vault Secrets Operator 1.3.0: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator/releases/tag/v1.3.0 - Terraform Enterprise 1.2: https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-enterprise-12-upgrades-workflows-visibility-and-brownfield-migration - Agent Skills: https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/introducing-hashicorp-agent-skills - Understanding instructions, context, skills and MCP servers for code generation by Sam McGeown: https://www.definit.co.uk/2026/03/understanding-instructions-context-skills-and-mcp-servers-for-code-generation/

CHANGELOG - HCP Terraform & Vault 1.21.2

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in HCP Terraform, Terraform, Vault, and the Vault ecosystem including remote state sharing across projects, ephemeral resources in the Vault provider, and a sneak peek at the deprecated attribute in Terraform. Podcast Notes - https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/workspaces/settings#remote-state-sharing - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/v1.15.0-alpha20260204/CHANGELOG.md - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vault/releases/tag/v5.7.0 - https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/releases/tag/v1.21.2 - https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-helm/releases/tag/v0.32.0 - https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator/releases/tag/v1.2.0

Episode 42 - Ming Zhao, IBM

This episode features Ming Zhao, developer at IBM and contributor to Docling. Join us as we learn the basics of RAG, how Docling processes documents for AI, and our most and least favorite cheeses. PODCAST NOTES Docling: https://github.com/docling-project/docling

CHANGELOG - AWS re:Invent & Terraform 1.14

Michael Kosir and Rosemary Wang (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) recap AWS re:Invent and discuss Terraform 1.14, including the query CLI command. Podcast Notes: - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/re-invent-2025-how-hashicorp-and-aws-are-simplifying-cloud-operations - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/day-2-infrastructure-management-with-terraform-actions - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.14.0 - https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/v1.14.x/import/bulk