Akeyless Secrets Management

Akeyless Secrets Management is used to store secrets such as database credentials and TransUnion certificates for the production environment. For example, a team stores PostgreSQL usernames and passwords in Akeyless instead of in application.properties. A Spring Boot application authenticates to Akeyless at startup, retrieves the credentials at runtime, and uses them to connect to the database. Regarding certificates, a team stores TLS certificates and private keys securely in Akeyless. Application services retrieve them when needed, and administrators can rotate certificates centrally instead of manually replacing them on every server.

Akeyless Secrets Management has positively impacted our organization because it has improved security through simpler credential rotation policies. Passwords, API keys, and certificates can be updated centrally without manually changing every application. This has resulted in better access control through role-based permissions and enhanced auditability.

Specific outcomes include the reduction in secret rotation time from hours to minutes after automating rotation. Fewer secrets are now stored in source code or configuration repositories after migration to centralized secret management, which is very important for our company. Manual effort has been reduced significantly because of this. New applications' secrets are managed centrally now. Incident response is very fast because speed is everything in this context.

Akeyless Secrets Management offers centralized secret management that stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and SSH keys. It provides dynamic and rotated secrets, role-based access control that lets administrators define who or what can access specific secrets, and a zero-knowledge architecture that uses distributed fragments cryptography design. It also offers support for services like Kubernetes.

The feature I rely on the most in my daily work is centralized secret management, as it is often considered the core capability because it reduces the need to store credentials across multiple applications. Role-based access control is also very valuable and important in larger organizations, and because our organization is growing, it is very helpful. Dynamic secret storing is very valuable to me, and Kubernetes support is essential for our operations.

Akeyless Secrets Management could be improved in several areas. The initial setup was quite difficult for me. The documentation and tutorials must include end-to-end examples for Kubernetes and CI/CD integrations in general. The UI/UX can be enhanced, and they should offer clear pricing and feature comparisons between different service tiers.

Onboarding and documentation should be clearer for first-time users. Integration examples for different tools, such as integrating Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines in general, can be improved.

I have been using Akeyless Secrets Management for quite some time now in my company.

Akeyless Secrets Management is very stable.

Akeyless Secrets Management supports thousands of applications, users, and secrets, which demonstrates that it is highly scalable. It provides support for multi-cloud and hybrid deployments as well.

I do not think we have used customer support for Akeyless Secrets Management, as if used by anyone, it will be the higher authorities in our company. I have not had a single issue with Akeyless Secrets Management.

As far as I can remember regarding Akeyless Secrets Management, I do not think we were using anything else before, though it may have been Google Secret Manager before we changed it.

There were other options that the company was looking forward to considering, such as AWS Secrets Manager. We were using Google Secret Manager as far as I can remember a couple of years back, but we chose Akeyless Secrets Management instead.

Common metrics regarding return on investment with Akeyless Secrets Management include time saved because of its secret rotation policies. Operational effort has been reduced as it automated credential management. I have hardly seen any security incidents, and overall it has been very beneficial.

The advice that I would personally give regarding Akeyless Secrets Management is that before adopting any secrets management platform, you should define what your security and compliance requirements are. Identify your cloud environments and the DevOps tools that you are integrating with. Evaluate ease of deployment, pricing, rotation policies, access controls, logging, integrations for Kubernetes, and scalability. My overall rating for this product is eight out of ten.

A specific example of how I use Akeyless Secrets Management in my day-to-day work is that we store secrets such as database passwords. When we need to connect to a database, we need the secret to be stored somewhere secure. We store them in Akeyless Secrets Management, and we run a sidecar container that can inject those secrets into the pod that we are running on the environment, which is an Azure Kubernetes pod.

This is the primary use case for Akeyless Secrets Management.

The access control feature has made things easier for my team and organization as it helped get the junior developers up to speed by having the right access and just having them view rather than be able to update. In that way, we can manage effectively, and nobody would update the secret without lead permissions. They would also probably use them in the right way. We have an audit feature as well that tracks who updated what.

Akeyless Secrets Management has positively impacted my organization as it helped store our secrets in a right way, in a proper controlled way where you can view, update, and at the same time, it helps in updating the passwords very effectively in the cloud running environment.

Akeyless Secrets Management is pretty secured with the single sign-on capability that it has. It is seamlessly integrated with any identity management system. I have no insight regarding AI capabilities of Akeyless Secrets Management.

My advice to others looking into using Akeyless Secrets Management is to best utilize the capabilities that it has, which is pretty useful. Make sure to have the right access controls for all the team members and ensure to give the timeline that it can update to your own pod by running it as a sidecar container. I rate this product a 10 out of 10.

I have been using Akeyless Secrets Management for around six months. I started during my undergraduate studies and used this solution to store API keys. I installed it, signed up, and began using the free trial version approximately one month ago. It helps with my college full-stack project by improving security reasons.

I use Akeyless Secrets Management to store, manage, and secure secret API keys such as database credentials and tokens. In my project work, it helps by improving security, reducing hard-coded credentials, and simplifying secrets management.

In a full-stack project example, I have used Akeyless to securely manage database credentials. Instead of storing API keys in code, I make the application more secure and easier to maintain. This is how it specifically helped in this situation.

In my opinion, the best feature of Akeyless Secrets Management is centralized secret management. It offers strong security, role-based access, easy integrations, and the ability to manage secrets without hard-coding. The main thing here is that hard-coding is avoided in applications, making it the best feature.

My favorite feature is centralized secret management because it keeps all credentials in one place and makes them easy to manage across all projects. This is how my workflow gets better using centralized secret management.

My favorite feature is centralized secret management, which also reduces the risk of exposing secret codes.

With Akeyless Secrets Management, I have noticed specific improvements that enhanced security, simplified credential management, and made deployments and collaboration very effective. This is how it has positively impacted my work.

It improved my projects by securely managing secrets in one place, making team collaboration easier, simplifying deployments, and reducing configuration issues. This helps me avoid exposing credentials in code repositories.

Akeyless Secrets Management platform could be improved with a more beginner-friendly interface. Clear documentation and additional tutorials for students or new users would be very useful, allowing new beginners to use Akeyless easily.

Clearer documentation and a beginner-friendly interface would be good improvements. Other than that, the Akeyless software platform is great and easy to maintain.

Improvements such as a good tutorial and clearer documentation should be made in Akeyless Secrets Management. Akeyless Secrets Management is a very good tool, and I have not used a better one than it.

I have been working in my current field for around one year.

I have not faced any downtime or technical issues with Akeyless Secrets Management so far. If anything comes up, I will inform or update the feedback again. Akeyless Secrets Management is stable in my experience and workflow.

Akeyless Secrets Management is scalable because it can manage secrets across multiple applications, environments, and team members from a single platform, making it suitable for both small projects and growing workloads.

I had limited interaction with customer support during the free trial, but the documentation and online resources were helpful in getting started and resolving common issues.

I previously used Firebase environment variables such as local environment variables and dot ENV files for managing secrets. Akeyless Secrets Management provided a more secure and centralized approach with better access control, which is why I switched to Akeyless Secrets Management.

Akeyless Secrets Management saved my time by eliminating manual secret management and reducing deployment issues. The free trial also allowed me to explore the platform without any upfront cost.

I have not evaluated any other options. I did not know about Akeyless Secrets Management at first, so I was using dot ENV files with Firebase. Later, I switched to Akeyless Secrets Management.

I would recommend Akeyless Secrets Management to students, freelancers, and developers looking for a secure and easy way to manage secrets. I would suggest starting with the free trial and integrating it into a deployment workflow.

I would recommend Akeyless Secrets Management to students and developers to easily manage secrets. Akeyless Secrets Management is a very good tool, and I have not used a better one than it. I rated this review seven out of ten.

The main use case is to manage our secrets, to secure machine credentials, API keys, certificates or tokens, and SSH credentials and encryption keys. All of these are secured in hybrid and multi-cloud environments through this tool.

Generally, I fit Akeyless Secrets Management into CI/CD pipelines. I have a lot of CI/CD pipelines and many cloud environments in AWS, Azure, and GCP. I manage all API keys and encryption keys through Akeyless Secrets Management. Akeyless Secrets Management offers multiple features including automated key rotation. There is a feature called Distributed Fragment Cryptography, which is a patented Zero-Knowledge encryption architecture provided by Akeyless Secrets Management. This is the main use case of Akeyless Secrets Management.

One thing I want to say about Akeyless Secrets Management is that many other secret management providers are available, but Akeyless Secrets Management helps us because it has a feature called automated secret rotation. This automated secret rotation automatically triggers a workflow to our hybrid cloud or cloud provider to rotate the secrets on a long-term basis, such as every three months or six months. This ensures the security of our organization better. This is a security best practice generally used in many organizations, but they implement it through their own scripts and CI/CD scripts. Now, with Akeyless Secrets Management, I do not have to do that. Akeyless Secrets Management provides this by default. It has helped us a lot because it reduces overhead for our organization.

The features mainly include that Akeyless Secrets Management supports multi-cloud and hybrid environments. It has a Universal Secrets Connector and can connect with other secret managers. It offers good compliance, automated secret rotation, temporary credentials, and dynamic secrets options. The main standout feature is the Zero-Knowledge architecture.

Automated secret rotation stands out most for me. This significantly lowers my manual effort. Without manual intervention, it is automated. Without manual overhead, it solves many issues.

I sometimes feel that there are documentation gaps in Akeyless Secrets Management. The documentation could be more detailed for advanced integrations and troubleshooting.

Some organizations feel that there is a trust concern because the secrets are stored in Akeyless Secrets Management and it is not open-sourced. It is completely closed-source. If something goes wrong or someone hacks Akeyless Secrets Management, there is a huge drawback. These are concerns my organization and many other organizations are facing.

The UI/UX could be better on the homepage and many other pages. Pricing transparency should also be improved. The pricing should include discounted pricing for regular customers or regular enterprise customers.

I have been using Akeyless Secrets Management for around one year.

Akeyless Secrets Management's scalability is very good. As of now, I have not experienced any issues.

The customer support is good, but it is somewhat slower compared to other support systems. It could be faster.

Before Akeyless Secrets Management, I used many other secret managers including in-built secret managers in AWS, AWS Vault, and HashiCorp Vault. Before that, I had to do it manually. With Akeyless Secrets Management, I was able to rotate it very quickly. The efficiency I can report is that around 40% to 50% of the efforts are not wasted in secret management.

Previously, I was using HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secret Manager. There were many issues with HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secret Manager, such as the lack of automated secret rotation and many compliance threats attached to those platforms. This is why I switched to Akeyless Secrets Management.

The metric is based on two or three factors including the time saved and the number of manual tasks reduced, as well as the before and after time. Based on those metrics, my organization's efficiency improvement is 40%.

HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secret Manager were the options I evaluated, but I did not get the results I was looking for. They do not have automated secret rotation, and they do not have a Zero-Knowledge architecture or this cryptographic design. Akeyless Secrets Management stands out because it combines SaaS simplicity with a Zero-Knowledge cryptographic design, reducing operational overhead without fully sacrificing control.

The advice I will give to anyone looking into using Akeyless Secrets Management is to first evaluate what tool you need according to your organization's needs. Understand your organization's need and determine why you need this tool and whether it is necessary. Ask these questions and then choose any tool, not only this tool, but these questions need to be asked beforehand. Once you ask yourself those questions, then you will be confident that you need to use this tool. Always evaluate alternative options as well.

Use Akeyless Secrets Management as a temporary tool, not a permanent tool. Store a backup of your secrets somewhere. You should not completely rely on Akeyless Secrets Management because if Akeyless Secrets Management fails, everything fails due to a single point of failure. If you have a good backup, you will always be better positioned. These are the suggestions I would give. I gave this product a rating of 8.5 out of 10.