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Author develops custom secret management tool 'Sigil' due to limitations in existing solutions

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The author discusses the complexities and limitations of various secret management tools, including Vault, OpenBao, Vaultwarden, Bitwarden, and sops+age encryption. They highlight issues such as complicated interfaces, frequent plugin updates, poorly designed CLIs, and difficulties with multi-machine synchronization. The author emphasizes the importance of a strong engineering foundation and the ability to create custom solutions for specific use cases, particularly for security posture in environments like Kubernetes and various Linux/FreeBSD machines. They mention developing a new tool called Sigil to address these challenges. AI

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Author develops custom secret management tool 'Sigil' due to limitations in existing solutions

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    secret operations vault/openbao: too complicated vaultwarden + bitwarden: often have to update plugins, cli is poorly done, unofficial backend sops+age encrypti

    secret operations vault/openbao: too complicated vaultwarden + bitwarden: often have to update plugins, cli is poorly done, unofficial backend sops+age encryption: useful, but tricky when multi-machine and no sync process and auto-unlock of key material 1password: useful, but app…

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