# lyft/confidant

Confidant: your secret keeper. https://lyft.github.io/confidant

Repository: https://github.com/lyft/confidant
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/confidant
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: lyft
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-02-14T23:34:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 6, release rhythm 16, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4009, "days_push": 565, "days_rel": 565, "gap_med": 141, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1856, forks 107 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:44.869641+00:00)

## What it is
Confidant is a secret management service from Lyft that stores secrets encrypted at rest in AWS DynamoDB, with a web UI and client tooling. The repository was archived and marked read-only on 2025-02-14 and is officially deprecated.

## Use cases
- store application secrets encrypted at rest
- manage credentials for services across a fleet
- self-host a secret keeper backed by DynamoDB and KMS
- distribute secrets to servers and clients securely
- audit and version secret changes via a web interface

## When to choose
- you already run Confidant and need to maintain an existing deployment
- you want an AWS-native secrets store with DynamoDB and KMS and can accept an unmaintained tool

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project and need actively maintained secret management (consider alternatives like Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or SOPS)
- you need community support, bug fixes, or new features
- you are not invested in the AWS DynamoDB/KMS ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: secrets-management, security, cryptography, self-hosted
- domain: security, cloud-computing, self-hosted
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: secret-management, dynamodb, kms, deprecated, archived, lyft, devops, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- lyft/confidant (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:44.869641+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:16:39.327343+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lyft/confidant (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:44.869641+00:00, sha fbe710b8def0)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/confidant/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:55:37.216308+00:00, sha 17920e433f11)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.