Bitrise vs Vault

Bitrise vs Vault: What are the differences?

What is Bitrise? Automate your mobile app development from building through testing to deployment. In short Bitrise is a Continous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Platform as a Service (PaaS) with a main focus on mobile app development (iOS, Android). You can automate the testing and deployment of your apps with just a few clicks. When you trigger a build a Virtual Machine is assigned to host your build and your defined Workflow (series of Steps scripts) will be executed, step by step.

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.

Bitrise can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Continuous Integration" category, while Vault is grouped under "Secrets Management".

Some of the features offered by Bitrise are:

• Continuous Delivery
• Hosted Environment
• Customizable Workflows

On the other hand, Vault provides the following key features:

• Secure Secret Storage: Arbitrary key/value secrets can be stored in Vault. Vault encrypts these secrets prior to writing them to persistent storage, so gaining access to the raw storage isn't enough to access your secrets. Vault can write to disk, Consul, and more.
• Dynamic Secrets: Vault can generate secrets on-demand for some systems, such as AWS or SQL databases. For example, when an application needs to access an S3 bucket, it asks Vault for credentials, and Vault will generate an AWS keypair with valid permissions on demand. After creating these dynamic secrets, Vault will also automatically revoke them after the lease is up.
• Data Encryption: Vault can encrypt and decrypt data without storing it. This allows security teams to define encryption parameters and developers to store encrypted data in a location such as SQL without having to design their own encryption methods.

"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 10 developers like Bitrise, while over 11 developers mention "Secure" as the leading cause for choosing Vault.

Vault is an open source tool with 13.2K GitHub stars and 1.98K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vault's open source repository on GitHub.

DigitalOcean, Redox Engine, and SoFi are some of the popular companies that use Vault, whereas Bitrise is used by Bitrise, ZeeMee, and Multunus. Vault has a broader approval, being mentioned in 71 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Bitrise, which is listed in 29 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.