hashicorp/vault
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
About the project
Vault is a tool for securely storing secrets, managing keys, dynamic credentials, and auditing access.
Useful for
- Store application API keys and passwords encrypted with access control
- Issue temporary credentials to AWS or SQL databases with automatic revocation
- Encrypt and decrypt application data without implementing custom cryptography
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 6 stars so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 36,268
- Stars in a day
- 7
- Forks
- 4,760
- Issues and pull requests
- 31,879
- Watchers
- 783
- Language
- Go
- Latest release
- v2.1.1 · September 16, 2026
- Created
- February 25, 2015
- Last push
- September 18, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #18, +13 stars
- September 16, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #18, +11 stars
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