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Kube-secret-syncer vs Vault: What are the differences?
What is Kube-secret-syncer? A Kubernetes operator to sync secrets from AWS Secrets Manager. It is a Kubernetes operator developed using the Kubebuilder framework that keeps the values of Kubernetes Secrets synchronised to secrets in AWS Secrets Manager.
What is Vault? Secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing. 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.
Kube-secret-syncer and Vault can be primarily classified as "Secrets Management" tools.
Vault is an open source tool with 18.4K GitHub stars and 2.67K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vault's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Kube-secret-syncer
Pros of Vault
- Secure17
- Variety of Secret Backends13
- Very easy to set up and use11
- Dynamic secret generation8
- AuditLog5
- Privilege Access Management3
- Leasing and Renewal3
- Easy to integrate with2
- Open Source2
- Consol integration2
- Handles secret sprawl2
- Variety of Auth Backends2
- Multicloud1