Docker Secrets vs EnvKey vs Vault

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Docker Secrets

43
114
+ 1
8
EnvKey

6
29
+ 1
5
Vault

780
792
+ 1
71
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Pros of Docker Secrets
Pros of EnvKey
Pros of Vault
  • 4
    Multi-Host aware
  • 4
    Secure
  • 2
    Easy setups
  • 1
    Secure
  • 1
    Sync keys
  • 1
    Easy to share keys
  • 17
    Secure
  • 13
    Variety of Secret Backends
  • 11
    Very easy to set up and use
  • 8
    Dynamic secret generation
  • 5
    AuditLog
  • 3
    Privilege Access Management
  • 3
    Leasing and Renewal
  • 2
    Easy to integrate with
  • 2
    Open Source
  • 2
    Consol integration
  • 2
    Handles secret sprawl
  • 2
    Variety of Auth Backends
  • 1
    Multicloud

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What is Docker Secrets?

A container native solution that strengthens the Trusted Delivery component of container security by integrating secret distribution directly into the container platform.

What is EnvKey?

Securely store config and manage access in an end-to-end encrypted, auto-syncing desktop app. Connect your apps in minutes in any language with an environment variable and a line or two of code.

What is Vault?

Vault is a tool for securely accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and more. Vault provides a unified interface to any secret, while providing tight access control and recording a detailed audit log.

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What are some alternatives to Docker Secrets, EnvKey, and Vault?
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.
Doppler
Doppler’s developer-first security platform empowers teams to seamlessly manage, orchestrate, and govern secrets at scale.
Keywhiz
Keywhiz is a secret management and distribution service that is now available for everyone. Keywhiz helps us with infrastructure secrets, including TLS certificates and keys, GPG keyrings, symmetric keys, database credentials, API tokens, and SSH keys for external services — and even some non-secrets like TLS trust stores. Automation with Keywhiz allows us to seamlessly distribute and generate the necessary secrets for our services, which provides a consistent and secure environment, and ultimately helps us ship faster.
Torus CLI
Torus simplifies the modern development workflow enabling you to store, share, and organize secrets across services and environments. With Torus, you can standardize on one tool across all environments. Map Torus to your workflows using projects, environments, services, teams, and machines.
Confidant
Confidant is a open source secret management service that provides user-friendly storage and access to secrets in a secure way, from the developers at Lyft.
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