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segmentio / chamber

chamber

CLI for managing secrets

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13Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
2.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

CLI for managing secrets

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

If you're on AWS, I highly recommend taking a look at Chamber + Parameter Store for secret management. If you're not on AWS, EnvKey looks like a reasonable solution with ease…

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HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-09-25 23:20:54 UTC to 2024-07-12 03:29:09 UTC.

012342017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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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 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I agree that AWS Parameter store isn't great... that's why we use Chamber: https://github.com/segmentio/chamber Chamber is an open source wrapper for AWS Parameter Store. You add a secret by doing: `chamber write ENV_NAME SECRET_NAME SECRET_VALUE` And when you want to execute a command with those values in your environment... `chamber exec ENV_NAME -- yarn start:prod` Parameter Store comes with auditing tools and versioning. Chamber uses KMS for encryption. Also, you can control permissions (including namespacing) with IAM. My question is - what does Doppler provide that would make me want to switch? I'm weary about letting someone else own our secrets.
In Launch HN: Doppler (YC W19) – Easily manage your env vars and secrets
Not OP, but I've recently worked with AWS Parameter Store a lot, and I've been very happy with it so far. We store all configuration (including secrets) using it. We started by using https://github.com/segmentio/chamber/, but because of the way we decided to structure our secrets we decided to write a clone of it ourselves (https://github.com/micvbang/confman-go). In practice, we have a client written in Python that grabs configuration from Parameter Store and puts it into the process' ENV variables at startup. This allows us to avoid vendor lockin in the rest of our code, since we still just fetch all config from the environment. I like it so far :)
In Don't use ENV variables for secret data (2017)

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