Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about systems for secrets management. Let’s call it SM for short.
In AWS, you have Secrets Manager.
But that doesn’t help for on-prem environments.
Outside of the SM offered by the public cloud vendors, HashiCorp Vault seems to be one of the most popular solutions. But it does have a bit of competition.
Here’s a list of the SM solutions I’ve found that seems most promising.
| Product Name | On-prem possible? | Offers SaaS? | License Type | License Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akeyless | No | Yes | Proprietary | N/A |
| Ansible Vault | Yes | No | Open Source | GPL 3 |
| BeyondTrust | No | Yes | Proprietary | N/A |
| Bitwarden Secrets Manager | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Bitwarden License |
| Conjur | Yes | No | Open Source | LGPL |
| Doppler | No | Yes | Proprietary | N/A |
| ejson | Yes | No | Open Source | MIT |
| EnvKey | Yes | Yes | Open Source | MIT |
| HashiCorp Vault | Yes | Yes | Shared Source | BSL |
| Infisical | Yes | Yes | Open Core | MIT Expat |
Author: Carl Winbäck
Published: 2024-03-15
Last modified: 2024-03-17