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.

Cloud Operating Model

15min
What is the Cloud Operating Model?
The cloud operating model is a new approach for IT operations that organizations need to be successful with cloud adoption and thrive in an era of multi-cloud architecture.
10min
HashiCorp Well-Architected Framework Introduction
Implement HashiCorp Well-Architected Framework at your organization.

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.

7 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.
7 tutorials

Reliability
Architect workloads to perform within expectations and meet resiliency and recovery targets.
5 tutorials

Security
Implement security best practices to secure your applications, protect your network, manage sensitive data, manage identity and access, and build security controls.

Labs and Tutorials

The lab and tutorial collections will help practitioners implement well-architected best practices.

5 tutorials

Operational Excellence Labs
This collection of labs and tutorials will guide practitioners who want to follow the principles of HashiCorp's Operational Excellence pillar.
5 tutorials

Reliability Labs
This collection of labs and tutorials will guide practitioners who want to follow the principles of HashiCorp's Reliability pillar.
12 tutorials

Security Labs
This collection of labs and tutorials will guide practitioners who want to follow the principles of HashiCorp's Security pillar.

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.