# Vault

A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

Repository: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vault
Homepage: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: vault, go, secrets
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:58:31+00:00
Link (homepage): https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault
Link (site_page): https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vault-radar
Link (site_page): https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/install
Link (site_page): https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs
Link (site_page): https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/commands

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 96, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4208, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 29, "gap_med": 25, "n_releases_24m": 28}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 36180, forks 4741 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:00.982706+00:00)

## What it is
HashiCorp Vault is a secrets management server that securely stores, generates, and controls access to credentials, certificates, and encryption keys via a UI, CLI, and HTTP API. It offers dynamic secrets, encryption as a service, and privileged access management with detailed audit logging.

## Use cases
- store api keys and passwords securely
- generate dynamic database credentials on demand
- manage pki certificates and tls
- encrypt data as a service
- rotate secrets automatically
- control machine and human access to secrets
- audit who accessed which secrets

## When to choose
- you need centralized secrets management across many services and environments
- you want dynamic, short-lived credentials for databases or cloud providers
- you need encryption as a service or certificate lifecycle management
- you require detailed audit logs and fine-grained access control for sensitive data

## When to avoid
- you only need a simple key-value store without access control or auditing
- you cannot operate a highly available, sealed/unsealed server cluster
- you want a lightweight dotfile-style secret store for a single developer
- your team cannot manage the operational complexity of unsealing and backup

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: secrets-management, cryptography, auth, authorization, api-framework, cli, security
- domain: security, self-hosted, cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: windows, go, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: secrets-management, encryption-as-a-service, pki, dynamic-secrets, hashicorp, privileged-access-management, audit-logging, devops, linux, macos, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- hashicorp/vault (main) score 98
- hashicorp/vault-helm (infra) score 94
- hashicorp/vault-guides (examples) score 69

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.982706+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 2026-08-29T16:26:43.248910+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.982706+00:00, sha 5c584c24ded6)
  - homepage: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:48.722389+00:00, sha 8bdbf20b4e45)
  - site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vault-radar (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:48.762490+00:00, sha 558d122b761a)
  - site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/install (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:48.820277+00:00, sha 8a689b5c109b)
  - site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:48.852384+00:00, sha 77f49b9cef06)
  - site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/commands (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:48.910479+00:00, sha 1593cae3eb6b)
  - site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/api-docs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:48.949038+00:00, sha 88755537a090)
  - site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/what-is-vault (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:49.021364+00:00, sha 662093662899)
  - site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/get-started/developer-qs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:49.059151+00:00, sha 5b07253604a6)
  - site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:48.999097+00:00, sha 2c5f86fa0399)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.