# openbao/openbao

> 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.

- Magnitude: 3.4 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 7,555 total · +71 stars today, ≈ 101 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Go · License: MPL-2.0 · Created: 2023-11-09 · Last push: 2026-09-24
- GitHub: https://github.com/openbao/openbao · Homepage: https://openbao.org/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/openbao/openbao

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 71 stars so far today, about 101 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 12 per day, so that's 8.6× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 5× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending today: #16, +16 stars.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #2, +16 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 581
- Issues and pull requests: 3,892
- Watchers: 38
- Average over the last week: 25 per day
- Usual pace: 12 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 13
- Latest release: v2.7.0 (2026-09-23)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-27 … 2026-09-25: 10, 7, 8, 16, 13, 10, 12, 15, 8, 11, 10, 9, 14, 8, 3, 10, 8, 8, 11, 9, 17, 22, 13, 5, 10, 18, 9, 13, 18, 71

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending today: #16, +16 stars
- GitHub Trending Go today: #2, +16 stars

## Similar by description

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   Vault is a tool for securely storing secrets, managing keys, dynamic credentials, and auditing access.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/hashicorp/vault.md
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   Cross-platform offline password manager with KDBX-encrypted databases, password generator, TOTP, YubiKey support, and browser integration.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/keepassxreboot/keepassxc.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-25 14:45 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.