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Secrets & Vault Management

HashiCorp Vault deployment for secrets management — dynamic credentials, PKI, and encryption-as-a-service, instead of secrets sitting in plaintext env vars.

Overview

Secrets scattered across .env files, CI variables, and Slack messages are a matter of "when," not "if," when it comes to a leak. HashiCorp Vault centralizes secrets management with encryption, access control, and — critically — the ability to issue short-lived, dynamic credentials instead of long-lived static ones.

What's Included

  • Vault HA deployment — clustered, auto-unseal configured, sized for your environment
  • Kubernetes auth integration — pods authenticate to Vault using their service account identity, no static tokens
  • Dynamic database credentials — Postgres/MySQL credentials issued on-demand with automatic expiry, instead of a shared password everyone knows
  • PKI & certificate management — internal certificate authority for service-to-service TLS

Our Process

  1. Secrets inventory — what secrets exist today, where they live, and how they're currently rotated (if at all)
  2. Vault architecture design — deployment topology, auth methods, and secret engines needed for your environment
  3. Implementation — Vault deployed, integrated with Kubernetes and your databases, validated with real credential issuance
  4. Handover — documentation and a walkthrough of how to add new secret engines and onboard new applications

Who This Is For

Teams with secrets in plaintext env vars, CI/CD variables, or config files checked into git history at some point. Especially relevant ahead of a SOC 2 or compliance audit.

FAQ

Does this replace our cloud provider's secrets manager (AWS Secrets Manager, etc.)? It can, or it can sit alongside it — Vault's dynamic secrets and PKI capabilities go further than most cloud-native secrets managers, but for simple static secret storage, sometimes the cloud-native option is sufficient. We'll scope this on the discovery call.

How disruptive is migrating existing secrets into Vault? Migration is done incrementally, service by service, so nothing is a hard cutover that risks an outage.

Do you handle Vault's unseal/HA operational complexity? Yes — auto-unseal (via your cloud KMS) is configured as part of the deployment so you're not manually unsealing Vault after every restart.

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