Secret Storage
Encrypt and store data in the storage backend of your choice.
Centrally Manage Secrets to Reduce Secrets Sprawl
The Challenge
Secrets for applications and systems need to be centralized and static IP-based solutions don't scale in dynamic environments with frequently changing applications and machines.
The Solution
Vault centrally manages and enforces access to secrets and systems based on trusted sources of application and user identity.
Using Vault to Protect Adobe's Secrets and User Data Across Clouds and Datacenters
Securing secrets and application data is a complex task for globally distributed organizations. For Adobe, managing secrets for over 20 products across 100,000 hosts, four regions, and trillions of transactions annually requires a different approach altogether.
Secrets Management Features
CODE:
$ cat vault.config
storage "consul" {
address = "127.0.0.1:8500"
path = "vault"
}
listener "tcp" {
address = "127.0.0.1:8200"
}
telemetry {
statsite_address = "127.0.0.1:8125"
disable_hostname = true
}
Dynamic Secrets
Dynamic secrets are ephemeral, programmatically generated when they are accessed and do not exist until they are read, reducing risk of someone stealing them or another client using the same secrets. Dynamic secrets can be revoked immediately after use, minimizing the life of the secret.
CODE:
$ cat audit.log | jq {
"time": "2018-08-27T13:17:11.609621226Z",
"type": "response",
"auth": {
"client_token": "hmac-sha256:5c40f1e051ea75b83230a5bf16574090f697dfa22a78e437f12c1c9d226f45a5",
"accessor": "hmac-sha256:f254a2d442f172f0b761c9fd028f599ad91861ed16ac3a1e8d96771fd920e862",
"display_name": "token",
"metadata": null,
"entity_id": ""
}
}
CODE:
$ vault read database/creds/readonly
Key Value
--- -----
lease_id database/creds/readonly/3e8174da-6ca0-143b-aa8c-4c238aa02809
lease_duration 1h0m0s
lease_renewable true
password A1a-w2xv2zsq4r5ru940
username v-token-readonly-48rt0t36sxp4wy81x8x1-1515627434
[ … ]
$ vault renew database/creds/readonly/3e8174da-6ca0-143b-aa8c-4c238aa02809
Key Value
--- -----
lease_id database/creds/readonly/3e8174da-6ca0-143b-aa8c-4c238aa02809
lease_duration 1h0m0s
lease_renewable true
$ vault leas