Confidant
A secret management service by Lyft.
Overview
Confidant is an open-source secrets management service developed by Lyft. It is designed to be user-friendly and provides a simple web interface for managing secrets. It integrates deeply with AWS KMS for encryption and IAM for authentication, storing secrets in DynamoDB.
✨ Key Features
- Open source
- Web interface for managing secrets
- At-rest encryption of secrets using AWS KMS
- Secret versioning
- KMS-based authentication
- Service-to-service authentication using tokens
🎯 Key Differentiators
- User-friendly web interface
- Simple architecture based on standard AWS services
- Open source and free to use (besides AWS costs)
Unique Value: Provides a simple, open-source, and UI-driven way to manage secrets within an AWS environment, leveraging native AWS services for security.
🎯 Use Cases (3)
✅ Best For
- A simple, self-hosted secrets management solution for teams heavily reliant on the AWS ecosystem
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Multi-cloud or on-premises environments
- Organizations needing enterprise support or advanced features like dynamic secrets
🏆 Alternatives
Much simpler to set up and use than Vault, and provides a UI that AWS Secrets Manager lacks for direct secret editing. However, it is far less feature-rich than either.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Completely free and open source.
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