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How many people are actively working on it and maintaining it? From my experiences with Vagrant and Packer, I get the feeling that there is not much development
by iofiiiiiiiii 9y ago
How many people are actively working on it and maintaining it? From my experiences with Vagrant and Packer, I get the feeling that there is not much development effort (by Hashicorp employees) allocated to the free Hashicorp products so I hesitate to even consider using Consul.
Vagrant and Packer feel like early alphas and while there is little competition, I do not feel comfortable using them. Because of this bad experience in the past, I have not even tried out Consul and Vault and am unlikely to do so in the future.
- jnsaff2 9y agoI don't know the answer to your question but while Vagrant and Packer both have been pretty bad experiences for me, Consul, Nomad, Vault and Terraform are very different products and all pretty actively worked on. I am using them all at the moment and am very happy. Consul seems like a very mature product and development has maybe slowed down, but I think this is mostly because it is mature and looks like HashiCorp does not feel the need for feature bloat.
- navlelo 9y agoConsul seems to get some love when looking at the releases, but I am really getting this impression when looking at Nomad. Seems like its been 0.6 forever.
- schmichael 9y agoI'm not sure if exact employee numbers are public, but I can assure you a lot of hiring has taken place over the last year and all of these products have dedicated engineering teams as well as supporting staff (customer success, sales, management, etc). (I'm a HashiCorp employee on the Nomad team.)