sops VS age

Compare sops vs age and see what are their differences.

sops

Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets (by getsops)

age

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. (by FiloSottile)
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sops age
149 213
14,856 15,090
1.8% -
9.2 5.5
8 days ago 14 days ago
Go Go
Mozilla Public License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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sops

Posts with mentions or reviews of sops. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-16.

age

Posts with mentions or reviews of age. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sops and age you can also consider the following projects:

sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets

Vault - A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

git-crypt - Transparent file encryption in git

terraform-provider-sops - A Terraform provider for reading Mozilla sops files

Picocrypt - A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.

vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.

terragrunt - Terragrunt is a thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for working with multiple Terraform modules.

secrets-manager - A daemon to sync Vault secrets to Kubernetes secrets

rage - A simple, secure and modern file encryption tool (and Rust library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

gopass - The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams

atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation

kubernetes-external-secrets - Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes