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Well-Architected Framework

What is Well-Architected Framework?

HashiCorp Well-Architected Framework provides best practice guidance for organizations. Use it to optimize your production HashiCorp deployments while also meeting your specific architectural needs. The well-architected framework starts with the cloud operating model and moves toward cloud migration enablement.

Framework Pillars

Get started with one of our pillars. Each pillar has an introduction, set of best practices, and additional resources for implementing our recommendations at your organization.

  • 8 tutorials
    Operational Excellence
    Implement the operational excellence pillar strategies to enable your organization to build and ship products quickly and efficiently; including changes, updates, and upgrades.<br> <br>The foundation of cloud adoption is infrastructure provisioning. Enable your team to focus on development by creating safe, consistent, and reliable workflows for deployment. Standardized processes allow teams to work efficiently and more easily adapt to changes in technology or business requirements.
    • 10 tutorials
      Reliability
      Architect workloads to perform within expectations and meet resiliency and recovery targets.
      • 6 tutorials
        Security
        Implement security best practices to secure your applications, protect your network, manage sensitive data, manage identity and access, and build security controls.

        Reference Architectures

        Architecture best practices for Consul, Vault, Terraform, and Nomad deployments.

        • 1 tutorial
          Consul
          Best practices for infrastructure architects and operators to follow to deploy Consul in a production environment in a zero trust networking configuration.
          • 3 tutorials
            Vault
            Best practices for infrastructure architects and operators to follow to deploy Vault in a zero trust security configuration.
            • 1 tutorial
              Terraform
              Best practices for infrastructure architects and operators to follow to deploy and manage their Terraform implementation.
              • 1 tutorial
                Nomad
                Best practices for infrastructure architects and operators to follow to deploy Nomad in a production environment.