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Akeyless vs Vault: What are the differences?
Developers describe Akeyless as "Secrets management platform for DevOps and DevSecOps". Unified SaaS Vault platform built to secure DevOps credentials and access to production resources across hybrid cloud and legacy environments. On the other hand, Vault is detailed as "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.
Akeyless and Vault can be categorized as "Secrets Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by Akeyless are:
- Easily migrate from Hashicorp or other secrets management platforms
- Static and Dynamic secrets management
- secret rotation
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.
Vault is an open source tool with 25.2K GitHub stars and 3.47K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vault's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Akeyless
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
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