At its annual conference, HashiConf 2025, the now-IBM-owned HashiCorp revealed a new strategic initiative: Project Infragraph, a real-time infrastructure graph designed to underpin an era of agent-driven automation for hybrid clouds. The announcement aims to signal an evolution from traditional infrastructure tools toward what the company describes as “agentic infrastructure”: systems that can observe, reason, and act.
Project Infragraph is built as a unified control plane within the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) that connects infrastructure resources, applications, services, and team-ownership metadata across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This graph aims to provide “near-real-time, relational visibility” so operations, platform, and infrastructure teams can access context from provisioning through production. Looking ahead, the system is intended to power automation workflows, policy enforcement, and AI-led remediation or optimization tasks, moving beyond purely manual infrastructure management./p>
At a technical level, Project Infragraph operates as a unified infrastructure knowledge graph, integrating real-time metadata from multiple infrastructure sources – including Terraform state files, cloud APIs, Kubernetes clusters, and configuration management systems – into a continuously updated relational model. Each node in the graph represents a discrete infrastructure element (e.g., a compute instance, network component, or policy object), while the edges define dependencies and relationships between them.
This architecture enables bidirectional reasoning, allowing both AI agents and humans to query and act on the graph. When a change occurs, such as a deployment, scaling event, or configuration drift, the graph updates automatically via API hooks and telemetry feeds.
HashiCorp intends to pair this with agentic orchestration, where AI-driven policies can trigger corrective or optimization actions directly through Terraform Cloud, Vault, or Consul. By exposing this data through a consistent API layer, Infragraph aims to make infrastructure not only observable but also actionable in real time, laying the foundation for self-healing and compliance-enforcing infrastructure systems.
In tandem with the graph offering, HashiCorp debuted a suite of enhancements categorized under Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Security Lifecycle Management (SLM). On the ILM side, features like HCP Terraform Stacks (GA), Terraform search (beta), and Terraform actions (beta) reflect a focus on streamlining provisioning and Day-2 operations. On the SLM front, updates include enhancements for secret detection, IAM/credential injection, and managed deployments of Vault and Boundary tools.
HashiCorp has opened applications for the private beta of Project Infragraph, expected to begin in December 2025, and suggests enterprise customers will eventually see integrations with IBM’s software ecosystem, such as Red Hat Ansible and OpenShift, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, Turbonomic, and Cloudability, positioning the graph as the connective backbone across infrastructure, security, and applications.
In contrast to HashiCorp’s approach, a similar tool, like System Initiative, positions its platform as an AI-native infrastructure automation tool, where engineers use natural-language prompts to trigger AI agents that discover, model, and act on infrastructure changes. The platform builds a high-fidelity “digital twin” of production systems to map dependencies and visualize relationships, enabling simulation of change sets, policy checks, and human review before execution.
While both platforms emphasise AI-driven automation and richer infrastructure context, the difference lies in their starting point and focus: System Initiative emphasizes conversational agent workflows and digital twin simulation built on existing infrastructure, whereas Project Infragraph emphasizes a comprehensive, unified infrastructure knowledge graph designed for future-state agentic automation at scale across multi-cloud environments.
Interested readers can sign up for the Project Infragraph private beta via the HashiCorp website.
