About HashiCorp Vault
Vault secures, stores, and controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys. The industry standard for secrets management.
Key Features
- Secrets management
- Dynamic credentials
- Encryption as a service
- Access control policies
- Audit logging
- Multiple auth methods
HashiCorp Vault is the industry standard for secrets management in infrastructure. It provides a centralized place to store and access secrets like API keys, database credentials, and certificates, with fine-grained access control policies. Vault can dynamically generate short-lived credentials for databases and cloud providers, rotate secrets automatically, and encrypt data in transit and at rest. Its plugin architecture supports authentication via LDAP, OIDC, AWS IAM, Kubernetes service accounts, and more. While Vault has a steep learning curve, it solves one of the hardest problems in infrastructure security.