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Re:Confidant: an open-source secret management service by pamad05 on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @06:52PM (#10510650)
Hi, quick question since you seem to be on top of Vault.

My team and I were investigating possible configuration options and secret management, and we couldn't figure out a good reason as to why the tool doesn't use S3 as one of the backends, which would essentially eliminate the need to maintain our own etcd/consul/sql whatever - plus, since the entire thing is path based, it seems incredibly well suited for that backend.

I couldn't think of one, but I might be missing something.

Re:Confidant: an open-source secret management service by jefferai on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @07:35PM (#10510822)
S3 is one of the available storage backends. You only need consul/etcd/zookeeper if you want to have a high availability setup.
Re:Confidant: an open-source secret management service by rdxm on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @07:59PM (#10510897)
not trying to be snarky, but you do understand who posted the response above(i.e. mitchellh) right??