Why HashiCorp’s Enterprise Products Are Banned in China – What It Means for You

HashiCorp announced on its official website that its enterprise‑edition products are prohibited from being used, deployed, or installed within the People’s Republic of China.

The restriction applies only to the commercial versions; the open‑source editions are not mentioned.

Terraform is an open‑source infrastructure‑as‑code tool that safely builds, changes, and versions infrastructure, providing full lifecycle management for Kubernetes applications and is supported by many Chinese public clouds.

Consul is a multi‑datacenter, distributed, high‑availability service‑discovery and configuration‑sharing software written in Go, widely adopted in China and often integrated into Spring Cloud as a registry and configuration center.

Vagrant is a popular virtual‑machine management tool that lets users download VM images from the cloud and manage them via command‑line.

For users of Spring Cloud who rely on Consul, the impact may be limited because the notice targets only the enterprise version, and many teams prefer the open‑source alternatives. Some suggest switching to domestic solutions such as Nacos from Spring Cloud Alibaba.

Source: HashiCorp Terms of Evaluation