Alohomora

Infrastructure

secret management

SHOW HN2018

22points
5comments
#1,142of 2,155 in 2018
Top 53%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.

Execution: 0 for, 2 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

Objections

  • Credstash has breaking changes and compatibility problems

    From 2 comments
    • Don't use credstash; we've had much pain with it. Many breaking changes not documented as such. Move to AWS Parameter Store or AWS Secret Manager.
      jwineinger on HN
    • It has been a while but the issues that are coming to mind are: - A (semver) patch version after 1.13.0 made a backwards incompatible change to the way the hmac field was stored…
      jwineinger on HN
  • Credstash is slower than AWS SSM parameters

    From 1 comment
    • It has been a while but the issues that are coming to mind are: - A (semver) patch version after 1.13.0 made a backwards incompatible change to the way the hmac field was stored…
      jwineinger on HN

Questions

  • Does this fit with Vault or is it an alternative?

    From 1 comment
    • Pretty interesting. Does this fit in with Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io) or is it an alternative?
      sandGorgon on HN

Alternatives named

  • HashiCorp Vault

    From 1 comment
    • Pretty interesting. Does this fit in with Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io) or is it an alternative?
      sandGorgon on HN
  • AWS Parameter Store

    From 1 comment
    • Don't use credstash; we've had much pain with it. Many breaking changes not documented as such. Move to AWS Parameter Store or AWS Secret Manager.
      jwineinger on HN
  • AWS Secrets Manager

    From 1 comment
    • Don't use credstash; we've had much pain with it. Many breaking changes not documented as such. Move to AWS Parameter Store or AWS Secret Manager.
      jwineinger on HN

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