HashiCorp Vault Forked into OpenBao

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
  • openbao

    OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys.

  • Well, lucky you, because now there's new management :-)

    In all seriousness, you may want to open an issue <https://github.com/openbao/openbao/issues> as they have weighed in on a few threads here saying they're open to suggestions

    Having implemented a reader for 1Password's "old" opvault format, I would imagine the threat model is not just searching, so it may be a heavy lift to coerce ~~Vault~~ OpenBao's mental model over into one that can be used as a consumer a password manager but I'll admit that would be pretty cool to unify vaultwarden and OpenBao into one stop shopping for all one's cryptographic needs

  • flakes

  • In this realm, I’ve been happily using 1Password’s Operator for Kubernetes secrets.

    Feel free to ignore the Nix stuff, but I’ve outlined how I create entries with the 1Password CLI: https://github.com/heywoodlh/flakes/tree/main/kube#1password...

    After a OnePasswordItem is created, a secret containing your fields and their values appears. It’s marvelous!

    (Integrations like this are why I switched away from Bitwarden to 1Password)

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

    InfluxDB logo
  • cryptr

    Cryptr: a GUI for Hashicorp's Vault

  • My colleague at Adobe built one for our own use, since HashiCorp didn't provide one at the time: https://github.com/adobe/cryptr

    IIRC HashiCorp was not interested in supporting these kinds of tools because they were in direct competition with the Vault enterprise offering.

  • Nomad

    Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

  • I can't discern how many are just those "dependabot" bumps but the 1400 forks show some are active https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/forks?include=active&page... including CircleCI who I would think have a stake in a libre Nomad https://github.com/circleci/nomad/tree/circleci/release-1.5....

    Now maybe their goals don't align with the community, and/or they don't want to be in the maintainer business for such a project, but better than nothing

  • nomad

    Discontinued CircleCI fork of nomad - use circleci/main branch (by circleci)

  • I can't discern how many are just those "dependabot" bumps but the 1400 forks show some are active https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/forks?include=active&page... including CircleCI who I would think have a stake in a libre Nomad https://github.com/circleci/nomad/tree/circleci/release-1.5....

    Now maybe their goals don't align with the community, and/or they don't want to be in the maintainer business for such a project, but better than nothing

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

    WorkOS logo
NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts