HashiCorp Vault Has a Free Secrets Manager for API Keys and Passwords

HashiCorp Vault secures, stores, and controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, and API keys. Used by Goldman Sachs, Adobe, and Shopify. What You Get for Free Secret storage — encrypted key-value store Dynamic secrets — generate database credentials on demand Encryption as a service — encrypt data without storing it PKI — issue TLS certificates Auth methods — LDAP, OIDC, GitHub, Kubernetes Audit logging — every access logged Quick Start vault server -dev export VAULT_ADDR = 'http://127.0.0.1:8200' Store and Read Secrets vault kv put secret/my-app api_key = abc123 db_password = s3cret vault kv get secret/my-app Dynamic Database Credentials vault read database/creds/my-role # Returns: username=v-token-my-role-abc, password=xyz (auto-expires) Vault vs AWS Secrets Manager Feature Vault AWS SM Price Free (OSS) $0.40/secret/mo Multi-cloud Yes AWS only Dynamic secrets Yes Limited Self-hosted Yes No Need secrets management? Check my work on GitHub or email spinov001@gmail.com for cons