Opinions In some ways, IBM paying $6.4 billion for HashiCorp makes perfect sense. HashiCorp's infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool Terraform is very popular and would work well with Red Hat Ansible. And yes, I have heard the joke that if you put them together you would get "Terrible".
IBM buys HashiCorp for $6.4 billion! Terraform and Anisible going terrible?
But seriously, Terraform and Ansible already sync well together. It's a natural pairing.
The business case is also clear. According to business-to-business market analysis company 6Sense, Terraform has a market share of 32.02 percent in the configuration management category. Number two? Ansible, with 31.35 percent.
As IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh said in IBM's recent earnings call, "The powerful combination of Red Hat's Ansible Automation Platform's configuration management and Terraform's automation will simplify the provisioning and configuration of applications across hybrid cloud environments."
