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WiseWise Uses Consul for Infrastructure as Code
Wise, a financials organization in the United Kingdom, uses Consul from HashiCorp to support environment provisioning for platform engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Handoffs in environment provisioning sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Consul is the governed place platform engineers use for environment provisioning |
| Capability | New joiners can see how environment provisioning actually runs |
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Inside Wise, environment provisioning used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in financials groups working out of the United Kingdom. Platform engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Wise uses Consul from HashiCorp as the working layer for infrastructure as code. HashiCorp (an IBM company) provides infrastructure automation software, including Terraform and Vault, for cloud provisioning and secrets. The practical change is simple: environment provisioning has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Wise gets from HashiCorp is a durable place to run environment provisioning and a way for platform engineers to see the same infrastructure as code at the same time.
