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sso-wall-of-shame
A list of vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement.
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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.
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SaaSHub
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Gravitational Teleport
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
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dstack
dstack is an open-source alternative to Kubernetes and Slurm, designed to simplify GPU allocation and AI workload orchestration for ML teams across top clouds, on-prem clusters, and accelerators.
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conjur
CyberArk Conjur automatically secures secrets used by privileged users and machine identities
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nomad
Nomad is a highly available, distributed, data-center aware cluster and application scheduler designed to support the modern datacenter with support for long-running services, batch jobs, and much more. (by atlassian)
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SaaSHub
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OpenBAO (Vault open-source fork) Namespaces
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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OpenBao v2.1.0
The combination of paginated list (last release) and transactions (this release) are a wonderful improvement over HashiCorp Vault. They're already paying dividends with potentials to implement much-requested Vault features like list filtering (https://github.com/openbao/openbao/issues/769), recursive keys (https://github.com/openbao/openbao/issues/549) and more.
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OpenBAO Beta Release
- Alternative release pipeline and improvements for release distribution.
Many thanks to the community for making this release possible and all the contributions!
The GA release is currently slated for release four weeks from now on July 16th, 2024. Prior to this, the focus will be on stability of the GA release. Feel free to open issues or discussions on GitHub: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/
- OpenBAO: Manage, store, distribute sensitive data – secrets, certificates, keys
- Show HN: Open-source alternative to HashiCorp/IBM Vault
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IBM Planning to Acquire HashiCorp
FWIW, most of the code and docs contributions have come from non-IBMers [0]. That said, IBM has done a lot of great work building the foundation and initial community and without them, OpenBao wouldn't be here. :-)
Speaking for myself, but I do not get any monetary compensation from IBM and I suspect this is true for all of the other non-IBM contributors.
[0]: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.0.0-alpha...
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Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale
on the off chance one hasn't been tracking it, there were several "we don't need your stinking BuSL" projects when this drama first started:
https://github.com/opentofu#why-opentofu (Terraform)
https://github.com/openbao/openbao#readme (Vault)
and I know of several attempts at Vagrant <https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/forks> but I don't believe one of them has caught traction yet
There are also some who have talked about an "open Nomad" but since I don't play in that space I can't speak to it
- OpenBAO – Fork of HashiCorp's Vault
- OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 20 Jun 2025
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