3 articles tagged with Vault.
One is a full secrets platform, one is AWS-native and hands-off, and one is built for developer workflow. Picking by feature list alone misses the real tradeoff.
We ran secrets three different ways across AWS, GCP, and Vault. External Secrets Operator gave us one Kubernetes-native workflow. Here's the setup and the gotchas.
Vault + Kubernetes auth + Vault Agent Injector. The setup, the failure modes during pod startup, and the patterns that beat raw Kubernetes Secrets.