Simplifying cloud secrets with HCP Vault Secrets

In this overview of HCP Vault Secrets, you will learn how to create, store, retrieve, and organize secrets for your applications without managing a Vault server. The session covers integrations with popular cloud providers and CI systems, as well as how to inspect activity logs for incident analysis. The talk addresses challenges like secret sprawl and operational overhead for small teams, introducing HCP Vault Secrets as a solution that focuses on rapid time-to-value, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness. It details features like a new domain model for secret organization, cross-platform secret synchronization, a new CLI, and Terraform provider integration. The demo showcases managing secrets in HCP Vault Secrets, injecting them into application runtime, and natively accessing them within Kubernetes secrets. Future developments include managing secrets at scale, expanding the ecosystem of integrations, and enhancing security posture with auto-rotation and improved identity access management.