Vault Integration in Spacelift

Vault is a popular tool used to manage and secure data like API keys, tokens, and passwords in modern dynamic environments. It helps address the challenges associated with securing secrets by providing features such as secure secret storage, dynamic secrets generation, revocation, secret renewal, and data encryption. In this post, we explore how easy it is to configure and use Vault with Spacelift, a sophisticated SaaS product for Infrastructure as Code that helps DevOps develop and deploy new infrastructures or changes quickly and with confidence. By leveraging dynamic credentials via OIDC and using the Terraform provider directly, you won't need to install Vault at all on your Spacelift runner. On the other hand, if you just need to take some values from Vault and provide them as input variables, and you don't want to use the Terraform provider, you will need to install Vault on the runner, but your Terraform code will be simpler. Harnessing a secure secret storage tool like Vault and incorporating it in your Spacelift workflow streamlines secret handling, reinforces security, and makes it much easier to maintain compliant infrastructure.