HashiCorp Vault is a secrets management system. It stores secrets centrally, controls who can read them with policies, records every access in audit logs and, most importantly, can generate dynamic secrets: credentials created on demand for a single use or a short lease and revoked automatically afterwards. Pairing Terraform with Vault means your configuration never needs a long-lived cloud key or database password typed into a file.
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