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  • sops

    Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

  • Git + SOPS here.

  • hiera-eyaml

    A backend for Hiera that provides per-value asymmetric encryption of sensitive data

  • Another way is to use the Hiera eyaml backend: https://github.com/voxpupuli/hiera-eyaml. With eyaml, you swap out the plaintext secrets in your Hiera for encrypted strings that are decrypted during catalog compilation.

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  • chamber

    CLI for managing secrets

  • Not sure if this would help, but if you're able to use AWS the SSM Parameter Store offers secrets management with version control and flexible ACLs. We use chamber to simplify reading/writing secrets, but again it's specific to AWS.

  • petems-hiera_vault

    A hiera backend for access to secrets being stored in HashiCorp Vault

  • There’s also https://github.com/petems/petems-hiera_vault which will work with 4.10 but you will have pain installing any plugins with puppet being so old. (We’re on 4.10 too)

  • git2consul

    Mirrors the contents of a git repository into Consul KVs.

  • git2consul (https://github.com/breser/git2consul) is an interesting idea...

  • hiera-eyaml-vault

    A hiera-eyaml encryption plugin for Vault's transit engine

  • Check out https://github.com/crayfishx/hiera-eyaml-vault which is a vault backend for hiera-eyaml. I'm not 100% sure but it could work with Puppet 4.10.

  • gonsul

    A stand-alone alternative to git2consul

  • Yeah, I had considered something like this. There are many abandoned git2consul projects and forks... https://github.com/miniclip/gonsul looks like a good one, but a hashicorp official tool would be nice.

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