I used to be lately honored to be awarded the title of Hashicorp Ambassador for the second 12 months. On this article, I’d prefer to share some extra in regards to the award, as I’ve discovered many individuals are inquisitive about it! I’ll first clarify what it’s, how it’s awarded, and issues you are able to do to start out on the highway to changing into a Hashicorp Ambassador. When you’ve gotten achieved the award, it comes with a lot of cool advantages, which I’ll additionally share! Let’s go!
Hashicorp Ambassador is an award issued by the Hashicorp Group and approved by Hashicorp.
Hashicorp describes the award:
HashiCorp Ambassadors are people who’re dedicated to the spirit of studying within the open. They actively share data about HashiCorp instruments by content material creation, native occasions and productive, considerate suggestions, whereas advocating and adhering to the HashiCorp Ideas. Ambassadors assist progress and accessibility of the group, specializing in three key components: Information sharing, Mentorship and Kindness.
The foundations haven’t modified for the reason that inception of the award in 2020 — Information Sharing, Mentorship, and Kindness.
- Information sharing: Ambassadors actively share data about HashiCorp instruments by content material creation, native occasions, and productive suggestions. I achieved the award by persistently running a blog on Terraform, producing over 100 articles on the topic up to now. I goal to put in writing round 4 articles a month on any given topic (I additionally department into Kubernetes, Azure, DevOps, and GitHub, primarily relying on what I’m engaged on or making an attempt to attain on the time in my day job). I had been writing articles for round 2 years and constructed up a sizeable following on Medium earlier than I first achieved the award in 2024. At present, I don’t publicly converse on Hashicorp merchandise, though many Ambassadors do that solely as their path to gaining the award. Organizing an area group round Hashicorp know-how can be an effective way to get acknowledged.
- Mentorship: This system focuses on mentorship, serving to you information and assist different group members, for instance, being open to questions by socials (LinkedIn, Twitter, BlueSky, and so forth.), additional supporting your case that you’re a extremely regarded and trusted advisor. Serving to with troubleshooting, contributing to GitHub tasks, and fixing issues are additionally nice pluses. I’ve constructed numerous connections and followers by LinkedIn on account of my blogs on Terraform. One other mentorship instance of engagement is by taking an individual or small group below your wing and sharing data.
- Group progress: Ambassadors play an important position in supporting group progress and accessibility, adhering to HashiCorp rules. Hashicorp know-how has an enormous group round it, so selling this and serving to others to hitch in and have interaction is one other founding precept of the award.
At the start of every calendar 12 months, Hashicorp accepts functions and nominations from group members and staff to acknowledge people who’ve been lively of their efforts in the course of the previous twelve months. You possibly can nominate your self or another person. The award expires after every year, and current candidates, together with new candidates, need to reapply for the next 12 months’s award.
Submissions are open yearly: December 15 — January 31, and you may get notified by signing up right here.
Networking
As a HashiCorp Ambassador, you achieve entry to a vibrant group of execs who share their skills, data, and experiences. This may also help you be taught from others and collaborate on varied tasks. Assembly different Ambassadors is an effective way to develop your community, each just about and in individual at conferences.
On becoming a member of, you’re added to the Ambassador group on Slack, which provides you direct entry to different Ambassadors and Hashicorp engineers. It additionally serves as a base for this system to share updates, discuss conferences, certifications, infrastructure developments, and different basic chit-chat and pleasure. It additionally allows you to submit materials on to Hashicorp for them to characteristic, e.g., Weblog posts or Movies.
Unique perks
Ambassadors obtain insider entry to groups and merchandise, unique product launch pre-briefings, roadmap evaluations, and suggestions periods with product administration. Alpha & beta testing can be supplied giving Ambassadors the chance to take part in hands-on testing and provides basic suggestions.
For 2024 and 2025, I used to be given a free move to my native Hashidays in London, and Hashiconf (this 12 months in San Francisco, September 24–26, which is generally $799 for early birds, final 12 months this was in Boston).
Being a part of the Ambassador program, you’re additionally invited to use to current on the occasions. There are additionally Ambassador meet-ups and social occasions organized by the Hashicorp workforce to become involved in.
Extra about Hashiconf right here:
And extra on Hashidays 2025 in London and Singapore right here:
In addition to the large Hashicorp conferences, Hashicorp additionally has areas at different giant business occasions for Ambassadors to attach at, for instance, Microsoft Ignite and Kubecon. There are additionally Ambassador Product days.
I used to be additionally supplied 6 months of Hashicorp Cloud credit. This system itself could be very supportive and all the time open to ideas for enhancements!
SWAG! Ambassadors additionally obtain a care bundle containing Hashicorp Ambassador swag —in 2024, this included a pin badge, stickers, a t-shirt, a USB bamboo clock, and a thanks observe from Hashicorp founder Armon Dadgar!
