HashiCorp Vault Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We leverage HashiCorp Vault capabilities for storing and managing our secrets and company passwords. HashiCorp Vault integrates with applications and tools to enable transparent secure sensitive information retrieval programmatically. By leveraging HashiCorp Vault we can go with IAC/CAC on almost everything we build. HashiCorp Vault also makes it easy to share secrets between team members and the organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

When you need to store secure information (secrets or configuration) for your kubernetes applications or just general secrets in a central place where team members can access. HashiCorp Vault enables granular access control and has terraform which makes it easy to manage it using IAC. It integrates really well in any cloud-native environment you are building your application.

I would not use it for small POC or companies due to the overhead of management and setup requirements. You could use another approach such as encrypted k8s secrets in git directly.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used to manage secrets, credentials and other sensitive data among the company and our clients. It's a centralized secret management solution which mitigates security breaches and improves code development

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a very useful tool when implemented in a company, it addresses lots of security issues, and it's very easy to implement because it is API driven.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<p></p><p>We use Hashicorp Vault to protect secrets used by our application teams such as database connection strings, passwords that run jobs, and meta-data about the environment around the application. This tool helps us ensure that our accounts are secure, passwords are private and our data can't be accessed by anyone that shouldn't have access to the system. </p><div>

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Likelihood to Recommend

Vault is a reliable and resilient as the Key Management System. It is not for the novice user that does not have a background in information security. It requires a significant time investment into the different key engines that the solution offers to get started. It works very well once implemented and is very flexible in general.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are centralizing several config data of our application into a Vault cluster spread into different regions through AWS. It is a solution which was implemented by the DevOps team initially to support the DevOps environment, going later to all production environments. What we used to handle with config files before is maintained by HashiCorp Vault.

Likelihood to Recommend

Complex environments today are delivered in an automated manner, usually based on git repository code. From a security standpoint, credentials, passwords, and secret keys cannot be stored in these repositories. A safe and reliable environment for storing this type of data is therefore required. HashiCorp Vault has proven to be an excellent choice in the environments where I inserted it.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HashiCorp Vault is our go-to for secrets management in our cloud implementation. Having used many other HashiCorp products, it was easy enough for us to translate that into the use of Vault. We also use it in a limited capacity with Chef, used in conjunction with encrypted data bags. HashiCorp Vault has allowed us to securely use secrets across applications without the need to expose those secrets. It has also made it easier to implement sane key rotation and achieve automation.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have looked into HashiCorp Vault as a solution to generate, store, and manage secrets in a container-oriented production platform. Currently, our systems rely on Vault to store TLS certificates and credentials to stateful services in our customer-facing applications. We are also using Vault to store application-level credentials for some of our products.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe that HashiCorp Vault is a unique product for security engineers with a lot of features that can help automate the secret management tasks from end to end. For automation purposes, it does require a reasonable amount of backing infrastructure, so only consider that option if you can get a good ROI. Otherwise, it's a perfectly serviceable tool as a secret store, if you never need to stash credentials in plaintext somewhere, for example, if you're running an application that logs into another service on behalf of other clients and OAuth2 is not an option.