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.

      • 5 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.

            • 1 tutorial
              Operational Excellence Labs
              This collection of labs and tutorials will guide practitioners who want to follow the principles of HashiCorp's Operational Excellence pillar.
              • 1 tutorial
                Reliability Labs
                This collection of labs and tutorials will guide practitioners who want to follow the principles of HashiCorp's Reliability pillar.
                • 2 tutorials
                  Security Labs
                  Follow the principles of HashiCorp's Security pillar by completing these end-to-end projects.

                  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.