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Is it a replacement for ansible-vault too? What are the advantages of a solution involving a server?

• danenania 5y ago
  For many platforms and tools (like Ansible) that offer some form of secrets management, instead of being a complete replacement, EnvKey piggy-backs on whatever is the standard secrets management approach, then adds a lot of functionality and security on top. That's because EnvKey doesn't (and can't) completely eliminate the secrets you have to manage, but it does minimize them to a single secret (the ENVKEY) for each environment. So now instead of setting a bunch of variables in ansible-vault, in Kubernetes secrets, in AWS secrets manager, etc. etc. for every environment that you run, you can just set a single ENVKEY in each of those tools, and then access/update/manage everything in a single place with all the productivity features and additional security that EnvKey offers.