HashiCorp, an IBM company, has validated Cohesity Data Cloud as the first cloud recovery method interoperable with IBM Terraform Self-Managed.
“Attackers using AI move faster than any team can rebuild by hand. Organisations have already codified exactly what their cloud environments should look like in Terraform. Cohesity uses that code to recreate the declared configuration, then restores the latest usable application data from backup. Teams need both to bring the application back. If you build as code, you can now recover as code,” said Vasu Murthy, chief product officer, Cohesity.
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Terraform recreates the compromised declared configuration, and Cohesity Data Cloud restores the latest usable application data from backup.
Cohesity Cloud Rebuild uses an organisation’s infrastructure-as-code files, which define cloud networks, servers, and access permissions, as the recovery blueprint.
Terraform uses the organisation’s approved code to recreate the declared configuration, and Cohesity Data Cloud restores the latest usable backed-up application data.
Cohesity Cloud Rebuild reads applications through Terraform’s official interface and runs customer code unchanged, maintaining record accuracy.
Terraform code recreates the declared configuration, while Cohesity restores application data from backup. Administrators can also integrate Cloud Rebuild into existing incident response and recovery workflows.
“Our customers have asked how they can recover from an attack leveraging Terraform and it’s state, and not just build a new environment,” said Tyler Lynch, Outbound CTO, Automation, IBM Software. “We worked with Cohesity to validate how our technologies work together when they use Terraform state to recover cloud applications, the infrastructure they run on, and the data as part of the recovery process.”
