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codahale / sneaker

sneaker

A tool for securely storing secrets on S3 using Amazon KMS.

8Distinct people
9Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
795GitHub stars
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A tool for securely storing secrets on S3 using Amazon KMS.

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HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-04-21 15:28:06 UTC to 2018-07-07 23:09:15 UTC.

012342015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Not applicable for y'all, but for our AWS people, I'll cape up for Credstash[1] (or its moral equivalent, Sneaker[2], but I prefer the use of a Dynamo table to S3 for this). Uses IAM to ensure secret access and offers revisioning. Plus it's super easy to work with. My normal stack, using my own Auster[3] for orchestration, uses an offline, file-based secrets store (usually an encrypted USB key in production) for stuff like database root passwords that don't need to be online, then push database passwords into Credstash with encryption contexts (the KMS thing that makes IAM effective for this). My Chef cookbooks happily slurp in credstashed secrets via rcredstash, now that the PR to make it work with parameterized KMS keys has hit, and provisioning is very straightforward. (There are a lot of proper nouns in this paragraph, but the nice th
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ing is that each component handles its own business and so there aren't many vertical concerns.) CI secret access isn't a thing in the systems I develop (unit tests don't need them, integration tests get a spun-up environment that provisions its own secrets), but you could provide access with a bog-standard token machine. [1] https://github.com/fugue/credstash [2] https://github.com/codahale/sneaker [3] https://github.com/eropple/auster
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