HashiCast

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

CHANGELOG - Terraform Stacks, Terraform Search, Terraform Actions & Project InfraGraph

Michael Kosir and Kerim Satirli (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in Terraform and Vault, including Terraform Stacks, Terraform Search, Terraform Actions as well as the future of agentic infrastructure automation with Project Infragraph. Podcast Notes: - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/day-2-infrastructure-management-with-terraform-actions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P8MrvrHia4 - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/building-intelligent-infrastructure-automation-with-hashicorp - https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/updates/release-notes

CHANGELOG - Terraform 1.13 & Packer 1.14

Michael Kosir (Developer Advocate at HashiCorp) covers what's new in Terraform, Packer, and the upcoming conference season. Terraform Stacks in the command line, a Packer plugin registry migration, and a major version for the Terraform Google provider. Podcast Notes: - https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/important-update-official-packer-plugin-distribution-moving-to-releases-hashicorp-com/75972 - https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/releases/tag/v1.14.0 - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.13.0 - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-stacks-explained - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/releases/tag/v7.0.0 - https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/guides/version_7_upgrade

CHANGELOG - HCP Terraform, Vault MCP Server, & Vault Radar MCP Server

Michael Kosir (Developer Advocate) and Gautam Baghel (Partner Solutions Engineer) recap HashiDays: London and HashiDays: Singapore, discuss new features in HCP Terraform, HCP Vault Radar, and the release of MCP Servers for Vault and Vault Radar. Podcast Notes: - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/conferences/hashidays - https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/build-secure-ai-driven-workflows-with-new-terraform-and-vault-mcp-servers - https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vault/private-dns - https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/agents/agent-pools#scope-an-agent-pool-to-specific-projects - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOANluSqAE