Top 23 Go Secret Projects

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1. Vault

   1 191 36,381 10.0 Go

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

   

   Project mention: When copy-paste goes wrong: Bugs in structurally isomorphic Go code | dev.to | 2026-10-13

   Vault is an open-source (BSL) tool for centralized secret management, data encryption, and for the protection of confidential information in cloud and hybrid infrastructures.

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3. trufflehog

   2 43 28,378 9.5 Go

   Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials

   

   Project mention: How to audit your codebase for exposed API keys (free tools) | dev.to | 2026-10-05

   TruffleHog (AGPL-3.0) goes further by verifying detected credentials against their upstream APIs: it tells you not just that a string looks like an OpenAI key, but whether that key is currently valid.

4. Reloader

   3 35 10,473 9.0 Go

   A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it!

   

   Project mention: Hot-Reloading Kubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps in Go with mamori (No Pod Restarts) | dev.to | 2026-09-29

   Install Reloader so it restarts your pods for you when a Secret changes.

5. SecretScanner

   4 9 3,393 6.3 Go

   :unlock: :unlock: Find secrets and passwords in container images and file systems :unlock: :unlock:

   

   Project mention: SecretScanner is an open-source tool for discovering passwords, API, tokens | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-27

6. chamber

   5 13 2,613 2.3 Go

   CLI for managing secrets

   

7. betterleaks

   6 5 2,181 9.4 Go

   Find leaked secrets everywhere.

   

   Project mention: Et BetterLeaks n'aura plus de secrets pour vous.. | dev.to | 2026-10-11

8. talisman

   7 5 2,102 5.9 Go

   Using a pre-commit hook, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious — such as tokens, passwords, and private keys.

   

9. SaaSHub

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10. git-hound

    8 2 1,469 7.2 Go

    Fast GitHub recon tool. Scans for leaked secrets across all of GitHub, not just known repos and orgs. Support for GitHub dorks.

    

11. Whaler

    9 4 1,194 0.4 Go

    Program to reverse Docker images into Dockerfiles

    

12. vault-secrets-operator

    10 5 687 7.8 Go

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

    

13. medusa

    11 5 598 5.4 Go

    A cli tool for importing and exporting Hashicorp Vault secrets (by jonasvinther)

    

14. Sup3rS3cretMes5age

    12 5 569 8.4 Go

    Simple to use, simple to deploy, one time self destruct messaging service, with hashicorp vault as a backend

    

15. rot

    13 8 508 5.4 Go

    Boring Cryptography Tooling for Humans

    

16. azure-key-vault-to-kubernetes

    14 5 451 7.3 Go

    Azure Key Vault to Kubernetes (akv2k8s for short) makes it simple and secure to use Azure Key Vault secrets, keys and certificates in Kubernetes.

    

17. agebox

    15 2 364 1.3 Go

    Age based repository file encryption gitops tool

    

18. ssmsh

    16 2 296 4.5 Go

    A shell for the EC2 Parameter Store

    

19. lockenv

    17 1 284 7.4 Go

    Simple, password-based encrypted vault for .env and infrastructure secrets. Like git-crypt or sops, but dramatically simpler. Ideal for small teams and IaC workflows

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-07

20. secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp

    18 6 265 6.8 Go

    Google Secret Manager provider for the Secret Store CSI Driver.

    

21. squealer

    19 4 239 4.3 Go

    Telling tales on you for leaking secrets!

    

22. git-alerts

    20 12 232 3.3 Go

    Tool to detect and monitor GitHub org users' public repositories for secrets and sensitive files

    

23. scrt

    21 5 227 9.0 Go

    A command-line secret manager for developers, sysadmins, and devops.

    

    Project mention: Scrt: A CLI secret manager for developers, sysadmins and DevOps | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-12

24. secretgen-controller

    22 1 201 6.0 Go

    secretgen-controller provides CRDs to specify what secrets need to be on Kubernetes cluster (to be generated or not)

    

25. secrets

    23 1 198 8.0 Go

    secrets kept safe (by umputun)

    

    Project mention: secrets | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-24

26. SaaSHub

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