I'm honestly surprised to see Hashicorp mentioned here, not because I've read their code, but because I had so many hours of tear-my-hair-out misery using their products.

I found them so under-tested and buggy that finally I just gave up. They're now blacklisted in my mind -- I'll never use one of their products again.

I guess the lesson here is that good code doesn't always have a strong relationship to a usable or bug-free product.

I think you should reconsider, I use their products daily (terraform) and have absolutely no issues?

To do what, though? All of their products are available elsewhere, but better integrated into our stack and IDE.

Have you by any chance also used their Vault[0]? I'm looking at solutions for secrets management and theirs is mentioned often.

[0] https://www.vaultproject.io/

I haven't and am not sure whom the target audience is exactly.

Azure and AWS have secrets management, and most stacks have some open-source way to do it if you're the roll-your-own-server type.

Yeah, cloud option isn't available for the product we're building (very specific needs with regards to data and services geo location).

But to me it looks like that the target audience is anyone operating a Kubernetes cluster as it seems to be the most mature option for managing secrets that is also well integrated into Kubernetes. And their open source version already provides quite a few features.

At least that's the vibe I got from reading various comparisons and blog posts about secrets management.