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Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

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Re: Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

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Post by vvoruganti »

There is https://www.serf.io/ which is a Hashicorp project as well, but the license doesn't seem as bad as nomad and from what I understand it's the basis for things like nomad and consul.

Learned about it in this blog post: https://fly.io/blog/building-clusters-with-serf/

Re: Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

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Post by nikisweeting »

It's not at all what you're asking for, but when I last transferred away from Vault I ended up landing on 1Password.

There are still some rough edges but it's been a decent secret store for my small team doing mostly Docker Compose/bare metal stuff.

I'm curious to hear if any other people have managed to use open OR closed-source source password managers as Vault/Consul replacements.

Re: Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

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Post by vaishnavsm »

nikisweeting wrote: post #3

It's not at all what you're asking for, but when I last transferred away from Vault I ended up landing on 1Password. There are still some rough edges but it's been a decent secret store for my small team doing mostly Docker Compose/bare metal stuff. I'm curious to hear if any other people have managed to use open OR closed-source source password managers as Vault/Consul replacements.

OpenBao[0] is a fork of Vault under the Linux Foundation

[0] https://openbao.org/

Re: Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

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Post by stackskipton »

Not that I've found and it would make sense there isn't really. Kubernetes with all it's warts is clear Nomad equivalent and insert random Kubernetes service mesh here.

I know neither of them are as nicely opinioned at those two services but there is starting to be plenty of more opinioned Kubernetes deployments.

Re: Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

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Post by andix »

stackskipton wrote: post #6

Not that I've found and it would make sense there isn't really. Kubernetes with all it's warts is clear Nomad equivalent and insert random Kubernetes service mesh here. I know neither of them are as nicely opinioned at those two services but there is starting to be plenty of more opinioned Kubernetes deployments.

Could you maybe elaborate on what you consider an opinionated kubernetes deployment? Are there some open source projects you find promising?

Re: Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

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Post by ComputerGuru »

nikisweeting wrote: post #3

It's not at all what you're asking for, but when I last transferred away from Vault I ended up landing on 1Password. There are still some rough edges but it's been a decent secret store for my small team doing mostly Docker Compose/bare metal stuff. I'm curious to hear if any other people have managed to use open OR closed-source source password managers as Vault/Consul replacements.

We use and maintain this cross-platform/cross-lang secrets management option: https://github.com/neosmart/securestore-rs

It keeps secrets out of your environment variables and lets you manage secrets the same way you do code (in lock-step with the code that uses it and as easy to update a secret just by pushing to git), but it's definitely for smaller teams or projects. It also has significantly fewer moving parts or dependencies.

Re: Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

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Post by mise_en_place »

You can use etcd for service discovery...that's how k8s does it, no? As for nomad I never used it much, but did like that you could run things locally and have unified environments. I would recommend Nix but we all know what's going on there, sadly FOSS has been consumed by political infighting as well.
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