Managing secrets for multiple projects can become increasingly complex and error-prone. Manual configuration and inconsistent management practices among projects leave systems vulnerable and hard to scale, and manually configuring Vault instances for each project can quickly create a bottleneck for the development and operations teams. As a result, we are always looking for ways to streamline Vault deployments with minimal user input..
In this talk, we’ll explore how to leverage Vault to streamline secrets management at scale, with the added power of a process orchestrator (like Camunda).
I’ll walk you through how we automate the creation and management of Vault instances, ensuring a consistent, scalable, and secure approach to managing secrets. You’ll see how we’ve used Camunda to streamline this process. We’ll cover a quick Vault overview: Key features and benefits of Vault for managing secrets; using a process orchestrator: How we leverage it to automate processes such as provisioning Vault instances and configuring project-specific configurations. I'll present a practical example of using workflows to automate Vault instance creation, secret storage, and access policies for different projects; and finally some challenges we’ve faced (and are still addressing) and the benefits of this approach in reducing human error, improving security, and ensuring scalability.
This talk is ideal for anyone looking to improve their secrets management practices, and automate repetitive tasks.