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What do you use to manage secrets in your network? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone, I was perusing through Conjur and Vault documentation, since I'm starting to think that learning a secret-management system might be a worthwhile investment with the app secrets and SSH keys and CA certificates around.

I was wondering, what do you use in your network? I plan to take a look at Teleport's documentation too, was curious about what the community uses at home.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I'm using pass at home, but I've used hashicorp vault at a few jobs with great success.

IBM just forked it to openBao as well to get around the business license, if that's a concern for your. But honestly I'd trust hashicorp more than IBM at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Please excuse the absolute newbie question - What's "pass"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@jmd_akbar @lungdart https://www.passwordstore.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pass for personal use is great. Especially if paired with a self hosted private git repo like gitea.

Pass works well on all platforms I've tried, even android and wsl (although I've not tried with iPhone).

In a corporate setting. The biggest questions is going to be if there is already a secret store that has an API. If security will let you roll your own. How is it allowed to be networked. Who are the preferred vendors and is there any enterprise support available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Pass works decently for us (fine except for the GPG key management aspect really) and allows us to have our Puppet config management write new secrets easily and read secrets for config file generation and similar purporses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Indeed, I had heard of OpenBao recently. If it's a Vault replacement, I'm assuming good support with API and orchestration tools. I'll check it out, thanks.

How is pass treating you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does pass have an API I can use in Ansbile/Terraform/IaC tools?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's a cli tool, so you can call it within another call using dollar sign syntax

terraform apply --var "myvalue=$(pass path/to/value)"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If you like pass, you might want to look into passage