HashiCorp Partner Story: Discover how LAB³ uses the HashiCorp suite to drive modernization, reduce provisioning time, and cut operational overhead at scale

Many enterprises believe they’ve modernized simply by moving to the cloud. But once LAB³ steps in, a different picture emerges.

Provisioning usually still runs through long ticket queues. Secrets are stored and rotated manually. Networking changes also require manual intervention. What should be a minutes-long workflow stretches into weeks, a bottleneck Lachlan White, LAB³’s Chief Technology Officer, describes as “fake speed to market.”

Recognized as a hyper-specialized HashiCorp partner, LAB³ delivers IBM Terraform, IBM Vault, and IBM Consul on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform deployments that replace manual, inconsistent practices with standardized, secure, automated cloud platforms.

“We see a trend where there’s a lot of manual, risk-averse processes driving decisions. Specifically, people holding onto control rather than letting go. That really lets people fall into a bit of a fake speed to market with cloud.”  – Lachlan White

The root problem isn’t the cloud itself, but the lack of shared patterns. Without consistent foundations for infrastructure as code (IaC), teams reinvent architectures on every project, creating drift and uneven security.

As AI, microservices, and event-driven systems appear, the cracks become even more apparent. Organizations want to operate at cloud speed, but their processes can’t keep pace.

“As agents, pipelines, and services are introduced at pace, non-human identity becomes the dominant security challenge. Vault enables workload-based authentication and short-lived credentials, giving teams the freedom to adopt new tools quickly without relying on long-lived shared secrets.” – LACHLAN WHITE

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