HashiCorp Vault - Credentials, passwords, and any kind of secrets in your environment reliably managed.
We are centralizing several config data of our application into a Vault cluster spread into different regions through AWS. It is a …
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What is HashiCorp Vault?
HashiCorp offers Vault, an encryption tool of use in the management of 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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What is HashiCorp Vault?
HashiCorp Vault is an identity-based secrets and encryption management system. A secret is anything that one wants to tightly control access to, such as API encryption keys, passwords, and certificates.
Vault provides encryption services that are gated by authentication and authorization methods. Using Vault’s UI, CLI, or HTTP API, access to secrets and other sensitive data can be securely stored and managed, tightly controlled (restricted), and auditable.
Vault provides encryption services that are gated by authentication and authorization methods. Using Vault’s UI, CLI, or HTTP API, access to secrets and other sensitive data can be securely stored and managed, tightly controlled (restricted), and auditable.
HashiCorp Vault Features
- Supported: Secrets Management
- Supported: Database Credential Rotation
- Supported: Advanced Data Protection
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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HashiCorp offers Vault, an encryption tool of use in the management of 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.
CyberArk Privileged Access Management, ARCON PAM, and Delinea Secret Server are common alternatives for HashiCorp Vault.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 6.3.
The most common users of HashiCorp Vault are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Users have made a few common recommendations based on their experiences with Vault.
Firstly, they recommend defining roles and policies at the beginning of the setup process. This helps save time and ensures cost-effectiveness by clearly establishing access levels and permissions.
Secondly, users advise investing time in careful planning before going into production with Vault. This includes defining paths, naming conventions, and policies to streamline the implementation process and prevent potential issues.
Lastly, users emphasize the importance of exploring learning resources such as documentation, user groups, and other knowledge-sharing platforms. These resources offer valuable insights into best practices, troubleshooting tips, and real-world use cases.
Overall, users believe that while Vault is a comprehensive and powerful tool, it may require some initial effort in terms of setup and planning. They also mention that additional user features could further improve its competitiveness. However, users encourage others to research and evaluate Vault for its affordability and data security benefits, as they believe it won't disappoint.
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August 11, 2022
HashiCorp Vault - Credentials, passwords, and any kind of secrets in your environment reliably managed.
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.
- A great repository for credentials and secrets.
- Good scalability with its own clustering solution and high availability.
- Easy to install like other Hashicorp products, it is based on just one executable.
- Documentation could be better.
- The multiple key unseal process can be a problem if the need arises.
- It would make more sense if HashiCorp Vault combined with HashiCorp Consul to create a unique product.
- Allowed better access control for credentials, passwords, and important keys.
- After we started using HashiCorp Vault, we were able to base our environment 100% as code.
- SSH access control that is possible using HashiCorp Vault adds an extra level of security in environments where external remote access is required.
I already used Encrypted Hiera (which is basically YAML files encrypted with a private key scheme where this key is stored in plain text on the server, which is obviously not the best option). Another solution I also used for this purpose was AWS KMS, but with Vault I don't get stuck with a cloud provider.
January 20, 2021
HashiCorp Vault for the win!
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
- Credentials generation
- Secret management
- Preventing secret sprawling
- UI can improve
- API driven
- Versatile
- Very useful because sensitive data doesn't exist before reading
HashiCorp Vault is way better than Azure Key Vault; it has more features and it goes beyond a key-value secret store.
September 18, 2019
Vault is a flexible and safe secrets managment solution.
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.
- 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.
- Vault requires a complex setup when getting started.
- Vault requires decisions around the backend type to be made up front.
- Vault tokens appear to be managed manually in most cases.
- Vault protects our application data from incidents.
- Vault has decreased the time it takes to provide access to sensitive data.
- Vault has provided great vault to our information security goals for this year.
We evaluated Symantec as an existing partner within our enterprise. We found that the API provided by Vault is superior and that was a critical use case in our organization. We also found that Vault has more engine types which allow different types of data to be stored. This helped us make our decision.
January 21, 2019
One of a Kind
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.
- Automated revocation of credentials via leases
- Provides many plugins for federated authorization through different platforms
- Dynamic credential generation
- Documentation for the API moves slower than changes in the API itself
- The database secret engine's API design isn't as elegant as it could be
- No support for revocation of all secrets under one path
- Helped us reach our security compliance goals.
- Helped us strengthen our security position in our infrastructure by improving on poor secret management practices.