Vault

Vault continues to be the secret storage that powers our Nomad and Boundary setup. Vault helps us to rotate passwords regularly for the various internal and external services we are working with.

Vault securely stores and controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys, and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API.

Vault is part of the Hashicorp stack and since we already use Nomad to orchestrate our IT infrastructure, Vault was an obvious choice when the question came up about how to store application credentials. The integration in Nomad and Terraform makes it easy to retrieve secrets from Vault during the deployment phase of our applications. Additionally, having the possibility to make use of dynamic secrets is another plus for us to secure our environments even more.