OpenBAO (Vault open-source fork) Namespaces

1. openbao

   1 27 6,293 9.9 Go

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

   

   Not without community involvement :-)

   Horizontal scalability and disaster recovery is one of the next larger features on our mind. We won't use the architecture of Performance Secondaries, and likely will transparently upgrade (existing) Standby nodes to become read-scalable. Local storage is interesting, but brings with it additional complexity that few need. Better to use namespaces with distinct storage backends (distributing active across all nodes in a cluster) to scale writes horizontally across different namespaces before looking at horizontal scalability of a single mount (which is all that local storage gives you -- it doesn't give you write scalability across namespaces).

   Also on that list is external key support, similar to managed keys from Vault Enterprise, but with different configuration semantics: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1320

   We currently have no plans for implementing some of the enterprise secrets bcakends (KMIP, Transform/Tokenization, KMSE, ...) though of course would be welcoming to these as well. Sync is another area that is not in the cards for the short-term.

   In terms of differentiation, we have a lot of unique RFCs in-flight that I presume are not on Vault Enterprise's immediate roadmap:

   - https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1365 -- starting plans for a UI rewrite and high-level feature requirements

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3. Vault

   2 190 35,737 10.0 Go

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

   

   OpenBao’s development seems heavily reliant on a single person, compared to multiple frequent long-term commiters to Vault.

   Not sure if I’d feel comfortable switching from Vault to OpenBao!

   OpenBao last 12 months: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/graphs/contributors?from=...

   Vault last 12 months: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/graphs/contributors?from=...

4. openbao-plugins

   3 1 32 8.1 Go

   A first-party collection of external plugins for OpenBao, including additional auth & secrets engines.

   

   AWS plugins are released separately: https://github.com/openbao/openbao-plugins/releases

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