Alternative to 1Password or Vault. Open Source Secret Management Platform

While there are many good methods for managing secrets in theory, there are many aspects that are difficult to implement in reality, so I have been giving a lot of thought to how to manage them safely. I tend to think about this in my spare time, and since startups creating services based on secret management likely think about this all day long, I looked into it further. It is so good that it would be even better if I could use it as is, but even if I can’t, I think I can still gain insights.

Infisical — Open Source SecretOps

The Infisical promotes open-source SecretOps and describes itself as an open-source E2E encryption platform that securely synchronizes secrets and configurations across teams, devices, and infrastructure.

Although Infisical Cloud provides hosting services, you can also install and use it directly because it is an open-source project . I believe they released it as open source to demonstrate their technical capabilities and allow users to use it with peace of mind, as entrusting secret management — which is crucial for service security — to a fledgling startup can be psychologically burdensome.

The self-hosting documentation provides guidance on how to operate it yourself using various tools such as…