HashiCorp Vault managed by Glasskube

HashiCorp Vault is an Open Source tool for secret management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management.

Secret management: Vault serves as a central hub to store, access, and distribute dynamic secrets like tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys, thus mitigating the issue of secret sprawl. This centralization not only amplifies the security across an organization’s infrastructure but also decreases operational burdens.

Kubernetes Secrets: Vault sets the benchmark for managing secrets in Kubernetes, offering powerful functionalities to synchronize and inject secrets into your application infrastructure. It promotes secure practices by enabling precise credential distribution, thus authenticating unique identities rather than indiscriminately sharing them across services or pods.

Data encryption and tokenization: Vault’s comprehensive data protection features cater to a wide array of security and usability requirements, including traditional data encryption, format preserving encryption (FPE), data masking, and data tokenization. With its centralized key management and other capabilities, Vault simplifies the process of safeguarding data both in transit and at rest, across diverse clouds and data centers.

Exoscale Integration: Exoscale provides Backend plugins to authenticate clients based on Exoscale compute instance properties and create short lived IAM keys for clients.