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Show HN: Garnet – a developer-friendly, open-source secrets manager

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Re: Show HN: Garnet – a developer-friendly, open-source secrets manager

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Post by fkjadoon94 »

Managing secrets is critical in this day and age for individuals and organizations of all kinds and sizes. Many developers currently find it painful to manage their app configurations and secrets, and this pain grows with stack complexity and team size. This makes building and deploying manual, time-consuming and insecure.

Today there are great solutions in this space, however, from our personal experience as developers, we have felt that existing solutions are either:

1) Too complex to set up and operate for the everyday developer

2) Tied to cloud-providers and don’t work well cross-platform

3) Pure SaaS solutions don’t play well with trust and reliability

Because of this, engineers end up writing custom wrappers around existing tools to solve developer experience and integrations with their stack.

Garnet is a developer-focused, open-source secrets manager which can be easily self-hosted on your own infrastructure. We aim to provide a single source of truth for configs and secrets across your tools, apps, environments and teams while delivering a great developer-experience through features like rich audit logs and versioning, granular access controls, notifications and native integrations with existing secrets and config management systems.

Garnet wants to solve this problem from a developer-first point of view, and we want to work with the community to elevate configurations as a first-class citizen in a developer’s workflow.

We’re actively looking for feedback and contributions! Please star and check out our GitHub repo to read more on what we’re building: https://github.com/garnet-labs/garnet-oss

Re: Show HN: Garnet – a developer-friendly, open-source secrets manager

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Post by hashimanwaar »

I was reluctant to use Garnet as I always had a traditional approach with managing secrets. It wasn't until I accidentally deleted my sensitive and critical data that I started to look out for a better way of doing things. That's where Garnet came in. Very easy to install and getting started to use it's features. Definitely recommended for everyone before it's too late and you have to spend a couple of days trying to re-register your keys and stuff

Re: Show HN: Garnet – a developer-friendly, open-source secrets manager

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Post by tak5651 »

Cool. I’ve been using AWS secrets manager for a while now, and though it serves as a great store for secrets, the developer experience hasn’t been great for our team due to which we’ve resorted to writing an in-house wrapper around it. A simple-to-use, self-hosted solution makes a ton of sense -- excited to give it a spin!

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fkjadoon94 wrote: post #3

Managing secrets is critical in this day and age for individuals and organizations of all kinds and sizes. Many developers currently find it painful to manage their app configurations and secrets, and this pain grows with stack complexity and team size. This makes building and deploying manual, time-consuming and insecure. Today there are great solutions in this space, however, from our personal experience as develop…

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