Case Study: Ellie Mae achieves Everything as Code with HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise

How Ellie Mae Delivers "Everything as Code" Using Terraform Enterprise

Ellie Mae, a fintech company that automates the mortgage process, needed a more auditable, secure, and self-service way to manage infrastructure and deployments across multiple teams and environments. After relying on Jenkins for years, the team turned to HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise to support “everything as code,” while meeting requirements for separation of duties, governance, and continuous delivery.

Using HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise, Ellie Mae automated organization, workspace, team, credential, and module management, and extended the platform with custom shell-based providers and APIs to build approval-driven promotion pipelines between dev, test, and prod. The result was less manual ticket handling, clearer auditability, faster and more consistent deployments, and a more scalable operating model for a shared multi-tenant Terraform platform.

Ellie Mae

Scott Winkler

Software Engineer