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EnvKey End-to-End Encrypted Environments Is Now Open-Source

• atonse 5y ago
  Is this an alternative to HashiCorp Vault? Any reason one would use this vs Vault?
  • MrWiffles 5y ago
    From my little exposure to vault so far, I’ve seen that you have to essentially glue the secrets and the environment together yourself. Either app code needs to fetch them at runtime, or the secrets are looked up and written to some shell script/wrapper to launch your app, and that happens at deploy time. Envkey, as i understand it, provides the same server/backend features as vault, but also some integration goodness that lets you dynamically do the lookup and set the environment for just a given command upon invocation of that command. Basically it seems more batteries included. Again, my experience with either is pretty minimal, so research it yourself. I don’t think this is intended to replace or compete with Vault, but i do see it as another viable option for anyone who wants one (no matter their reason). Having more quality choices isn’t a bad thing :-)
• luckman212 5y ago
  Looked interesting, but I clicked on Docs > getting started overview and hit a 404.
• throwaway81523 5y ago
  Took me quite a bit of clicking to figure out this is written in Typescript. That makes me guess Node might also be involved. It would be nice if that kind of stuff were stated more prominently, for those potentially interested in hacking on the code.
  • tomtom1337 5y ago
    Agreed that they could type that explicitly in the readme, but just so you know, github displays this sort of info in the horizontal bar diagram if you scroll a bit down on the repo page. 93.5 % typescript.