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Biscuit vs Vault: What are the differences?

What is Biscuit? A multi-region key value store for your AWS infrastructure secrets. Biscuit is a simple key-value store for your infrastructure secrets. Biscuit is most useful to teams already using AWS and IAM to manage their infrastructure.

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.

Biscuit and Vault can be primarily classified as "Secrets Management" tools.

Biscuit and Vault are both open source tools. Vault with 13.2K GitHub stars and 1.98K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Biscuit with 536 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Vault
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      Secure
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      Variety of Secret Backends
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      Very easy to set up and use
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      Dynamic secret generation
    • 5
      AuditLog
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      Leasing and Renewal
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      Privilege Access Management
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      Variety of Auth Backends
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      Easy to integrate with
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      Open Source
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      Consol integration
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      Handles secret sprawl
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      Multicloud

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    What is Biscuit?

    Biscuit is a simple key-value store for your infrastructure secrets. Biscuit is most useful to teams already using AWS and IAM to manage their infrastructure.

    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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