Secrets Management Tools

The cluster centers on recommendations and comparisons of secrets management solutions, with HashiCorp Vault frequently suggested as a superior or standard alternative to the discussed tool, alongside mentions of AWS Secrets Manager, Sealed Secrets, SOPS, and others.

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jaredallard2 Sep 23, 2025 View on HN

Why would someone want to use this over Vault or the multitude of other secrets managers?

morgante Sep 21, 2016 View on HN

Use something like Vault: https://www.vaultproject.io/

aprdm Dec 1, 2018 View on HN

You have to look into a solution that can manage secrets easily, I think Hashicorp's Vault is an example of a product in this space.

beauHD Oct 1, 2022 View on HN

There is Hashicorp Secrets Management which I haven't used, but might be a solution you're looking for.[0] https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault/secrets-management

marcocampos Aug 14, 2020 View on HN

In the past I've used Hashicorp Vault to handle this kind of situation. Granted, it's an additional piece of infrastructure to manage but Vault has been pretty solid for this kind of situation and others where you need to safely manage secrets.

aprdm Feb 7, 2024 View on HN

Those using Secret Managers, could you share some articles on your set up ? Very interested ! Vault seems quite complex for some simple use cases

mavdi Jun 2, 2020 View on HN

AWS secrets manager or SSM or KMS for any kind of secrets, keys etc. Works well because our entire stack is on AWS. Otherwise hashicorps Vault would do I guess but that’s yet another service on life support.

rodrickbrown Dec 26, 2015 View on HN

Take a look at hashicorp vault - https://hashicorp.com/blog/vault.html

zie Mar 12, 2018 View on HN

Alternatively, just use Hashicorp vault (https://vaultproject.io)

illusive4080 Mar 17, 2024 View on HN

Is there a good open source secret management abstraction that works for both containers and serverless? I’d love to use one library to connect to AWS SM and Vault and whatever we replace Vault with.