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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Vault

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Vault (formerly Hashicorp Vault) is an encryption tool for managing secrets including credentials, passwords and other secrets, providing access control, audit trail, and support for multiple authentication methods. It is available open source, or under an enterprise license.

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    NGINX

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create…N/A
    Pricing
    IBM VaultNGINX
    Editions & Modules
    Cloud - HCP Vault
    $0.03/hr
    Open Source
    Free
    Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM VaultNGINX
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    IBM VaultNGINX
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    96%
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    43 Answers
    Features
    IBM VaultNGINX
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of IBM Vault and NGINX
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    10% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings8.127 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings8.638 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.939 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings9.139 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings9.040 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings9.037 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM VaultNGINX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.3
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
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    Usability
    9.0
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    8.3
    (25 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.3
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    8.0
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    Implementation Rating
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    User Testimonials
    IBM VaultNGINX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault, in my opinion, is a defacto standard for any cloud or automation implementation. They're the best of the best as far as products for secrets management and the ability to use it against relatively any service you have is unheard of for other products. HashiCorp has really taken out all the stops when it comes to creating a nice, extensible tool that people can use to suit their needs.
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    F5
    Nginx is well-suited for any web server scenarios, such as web applications, backend or reverse proxy for both application and HTTP requests, and distribution. It is less appropriate for Windows-based applications that run directly on a Windows Server host. In any case, it is very easy to manage, through separate conf files for each application or site you want to host with it.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • The HTTP API you use to write and read secrets is open and can be used by any application.
    • It keeps our sensitive data/credentials out of our GitLab repositories.
    • Sealing and unsealing the Vault on demand adds an additional layer of security.
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    F5
    • Very low memory usage. Can handle many more connections than alternatives (like Apache HTTPD) due to low overhead. (event-based architecture).
    • Great at serving static content.
    • Scales very well. Easy to host multiple Nginx servers to promote high availability.
    • Open-Source (no cost)!
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Session Management is terrible to manage
    • Monitoring is hard and not enough information
    • User management
    • Configuration is too complex
    • More user friendly UI
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    F5
    • Customer support can be strangely condescending, perhaps it's a language issue?
    • I find it a little weird how the release versions used for Nginx+ aren't the same as for open source version. It can be very confusing to determine the cross-compatibility of modules, etc., because of this.
    • It seems like some (most?) modules on their own site are ancient and no longer supported, so their documentation in this area needs work.
    • It's difficult to navigate between nginx.com commercial site and customer support. They need to be integrated together.
    • I'd love to see more work done on nginx+ monitoring without requiring logging every request. I understand that many statistics can only be derived from logs, but plenty should work without that. Logging is not an option in many environments.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault is the best there is out there, and it has become critical to our secret management use cases. It would be difficult to find anything that would suit our needs better and that would be beneficial for us to switch over to.
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    F5
    Great value for the product
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    Usability
    IBM
    We spent a little more time than we imagined to conceptually understand how HashiCorp Vault operates, as well as how it is configured. This is not trivial, and keep in mind that you will need to take some time to get a thorough understanding of the tool. The documentation could be more helpful in this regard.
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    F5
    This tool is really easy to use and configure. Consumes very less system resources. It is highly modular and configurable. You can easily use it with other tools like certbot for SSLs. You can configure basic security with configuration and headers
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    Hashicorp has been very responsive to our questions and inquiries up to this point. We are currently working on them to develop a more granular permissions model within Vault. We are very close to achieving our objectives with the help of their support team. We do not seem to be in the same time zone which makes it hard for escalated issues.
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    F5
    Community support is great, and they've also had a presence at conferences. Overall, there is no shortage of documentation and community support. We're currently using it to serve up some WordPress sites, and configuring NGINX for this purpose is well documented.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault is way better than Azure Key Vault; it has more features and it goes beyond a key-value secret store.
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    F5
    I have found that [NGINX] seems to perform better throughout the years with less issues although I've used Apache more. I would definitely recommend [NGINX] for any high volume site and I've seen this to usually be the case from most provided web hosts who will pick [NGINX] over alternatives
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Helped us reach our security compliance goals.
    • Helped us strengthen our security position in our infrastructure by improving on poor secret management practices.
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    F5
    • By using Nginx, we can host multiple web services on a single server, keeping our infrastructure costs lower.
    • Nginx maintains our HTTPS connections, allowing us to keep our promise to our customers that their data is safe in transit.
    • Due to Nginx's extremely low failure rate, our web addresses always return something meaningful, even when individual services go down. In sense, this means we are "always online" and allows us to maintain brand and support our customers even in the face of catastrophe.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Vault Screenshots

    Screenshot of an example of writing a secret to Vault. Secrets are always encrypted and written to backend storage.Screenshot of the secrets menu to manage integrated secrets engines. Secrets Engines are components which store, generate, or encrypt data and are enabled at a path in Vault.Screenshot of where vault identity has support for groups. A group can contain multiple entities as its members. A group can also have subgroups.Screenshot of HCP Vault, which provides all of the power and security of Vault, without the complexity and overhead of managing it yourself.Screenshot of where to view entity client and non-entity client counts.Screenshot of MFA is built on top of the Identity system of Vault.

    NGINX Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview of the NGINX Application PlatformScreenshot of NGINX Controller - MonitoringScreenshot of NGINX Controller - Configuration