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guides Secrets Management - Guides guides-secret-mgmt A very common use case of Vault is to manage your organization's secrets from storing credentials and API keys to encrypting passwords for user signups. Vault is meant to be a solution for all secret management needs.

Secrets Management

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.

Secrets Management guides demonstrate features in Vault to securely store your secrets.

  • Static Secrets guide walks you through the steps to write secrets in Vault, and control who can access them.

  • Versioned KV Secret Engine guide demonstrates the secret versioning capabilities provided by KV Secret Engine v2.

  • Secret as a Service: Dynamic Secrets guide demonstrates the Vault feature to generate database credentials on-demand so that each application or system can obtain its own credentials, and its permissions can be tightly controlled.

  • Cubbyhole Response Wrapping guide demonstrates a secure method to distribute secrets by wrapping them where only the expecting client can unwrap.