Re:Hashicorp Vault v1.0
by sethvargo on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:13PM
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I agree on the operational load, but Vault is free. Did you mean Vault Enterprise? There's two versions - OSS and Enterprise, but a lot of small and mid-sized companies are able to use the free version at scale. Especially if you're a smaller org, OSS should be fine, so your costs are the VMs it's running on and the humans running it.
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I think he is talking about the burden of running a SPoF in highly available fashion, with backups, DR plans, monitoring, logging and all the baggage that comes with it.
Right on. This is also what prevents me from using (unmanaged) Vault--not having the time to invest in learning the failure modes and internals, backup and restore strategies, in addition to the best ways to use it for the 5-10 patterns where it would become important.