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Stepping back a little bit, I'd love to walk through a customer journey. In this case, you mentioned Inditex as cloud journey; that's where you started bringing on HashiCorp products. I'd love to hear about that customer journey and just what caused the need for HashiCorp products? How was the implementation? Where are they now? That entire journey that Inditex with HashiCorp would be really interesting.

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When I arrived at Inditex there was no cloud; there was nothing. My boss looked through deploying Azure and GCP and said, we want to build automation. We don't want to build stuff manually, because it's going to get super difficult to manage. I suggested a stack, like increasing Terraform, Packer, different products for automation, as we use in batch, in Unix with PowerShell for Windows. We started with the open-source version and I started, basically, writing some of the first pieces of code to automate, and then we get involved with Microsoft. We get Cloud Center of Excellence with Microsoft, and they brought Terraform code, with something they called, Landing Zone, which is basically a package with lot of code with which they built the whole environment.

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How was Terraform deployed within Inditex and within other companies you see? Is it usually part of a cloud platform team that does it, or is it just developers going at it on their own? What team usually takes care of the implementation and spreads it out and all that?

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Usually, I would say that everything starts with the DevOps architect. In my case that we have a small architect team, there are four people. We start architecting the solution. I start building these little blocks, but when the environment grows, we established a DevOps team and the DevOps team was in charge of deployments using Terraform. I will say that the biggest problem for me – I saw this in Inditex, I saw this in Dubai Expo and I saw this in a lot of my previous AWS customers – is to find a way for the developers with no DevOps experience, to deploy Terraform Cloud. This is where I've been working on this tool – I hope I can release in a couple of months – but the problem is there is not really a good orchestrator that can help you to go through this.

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Did you ever consider at Inditex, just staying on the open source and not paying HashiCorp? Was that ever an option?

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At the beginning, yes, because I was concerned about the money, but then we started looking into the future. We got access to the Enterprise. I started looking for what the benefit was. The first one was obviously Sentinel. The second one was the integration with single sign on, which is very good to control access and execution and stuff like that. Then the workspace is basically when you separate and segregate the piece of code and it's easy to manage.

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