openbao/openbao
OpenBao is a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys.
About the project
OpenBao is an open-source secrets management system for storing, encrypting, and distributing credentials, keys, and certificates, with dynamic secrets and auditing. A community-governed fork of Vault.
Useful for
- Store API keys and DB passwords encrypted instead of in configs
- Issue apps temporary AWS or SQL credentials with automatic revocation
- Encrypt data before writing to a SQL database without custom crypto
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 59 stars so far today, about 87 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 12 per day, so that's 7.4× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 4.4× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending today: #16, +16 stars.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #2, +16 stars.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 7,545
- Today
- 59 · ≈ 87 by evening
- Forks
- 580
- Issues and pull requests
- 3,891
- Watchers
- 37
- Language
- Go
- License
- MPL-2.0
- Latest release
- v2.7.0 · September 23, 2026
- Created
- November 9, 2023
- Last push
- September 24, 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 25, 2026GitHub Trending today: #15, +16 stars; GitHub Trending Go today: #2, +16 stars
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