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July 2026
OpenBao - Leadership from the Ground Up
Securing the widespread adoption of AI, supporting the imminent post-quantum cryptographic migrations, and increasingly sophisticated supply chain attacks are keeping industry leaders up at night. Secrets management, cryptographic inventory, and identity platforms are critical areas of investment in 2026: these are the foundational components platform teams utilize to meet the accelerating business demands.
Continue reading on control-plane.io.June 2026
OpenBao strides forward in the enterprise
When HashiCorp shifted its licensing model to the Business Source License (BUSL) a couple of years ago, it sent undeniable ripples through the open source pond.
Continue reading on www.computerweekly.com.NVIDIA adopts OpenBao, open source fork of HashiCorp's Vault
NVIDIA is now among the official adopters of OpenBao, an open source fork of HashiCorp's Vault secrets management software, according to recently released documentation.
Continue reading on www.techtarget.com.Adfinis and Crypto4A Announce Partnership to Advance Sustainable, Sovereign Secrets Management
Crypto4A and Adfinis combine QxVault™ and Secretz Enterprise to empower organizations to achieve quantum-safe and sovereign secrets management in a sustainable manner.
Continue reading on crypto4a.com.OpenBao Achieves SUSE Ready for Rancher Certification
Adfinis announces that OpenBao, the community-driven secrets management solution, has officially achieved the SUSE Ready for Rancher certification.
Continue reading on www.adfinis.com.Shifting Secrets Left with ControlPlane Enterprise for OpenBao - PlatformCon 2026
Alex Scheel's PlatformCon 2026 talk, describing the governance capabilities of the server-side workflow feature of OpenBao.
Watch on YouTube.OpenBao: Sovereign Secrets Management
Coen Hamers', Robert de Bock's, and Roel de Cort's webinar, outlining how to achieve sovereign secrets management in light of proprietary solutions and regulations such as NIS2.
Watch on YouTube.May 2026
OpenBao: Horizontally Scaling Secrets Management - OSSNA 2026
Alex Scheel's Open Source Summit NA 2026 talk, describing the horizontal scalability features of OpenBao.
Watch on YouTube.QxVault™ - Simplifying Secrets Management
What is QxVault™? Quantum-Safe Secrets Management with Built-in HSM Protection.
Continue reading on crypto4a.com.Sustainable Secrets Management with OpenBao - OSS @ Siemens 2026
Michael Hofer's Open Source @ Siemens 2026 talk, diving into OpenBao's origins and why it is the sustainable choice.
Watch on YouTube.April 2026
OpenBao Basics: What Is Secrets Management?
Everyone – from early-stage startups to large enterprises, open source projects, and heavily regulated industries – relies on secrets. API tokens, private keys, database credentials, cloud access keys, and signing keys are all examples of secrets. Modern systems simply can't function without them.
Continue reading on www.adfinis.com.The Vercel Breach: When Roblox Cheats, AI Tools, and Poor Secrets Management Collide
The recent breach at Vercel is a textbook example of how many modern supply-chain compromises unfold. It didn’t start with a sophisticated zero-day attack against Vercel’s core infrastructure. Instead, the breach began months earlier, when an employee at Context.ai, a third-party AI tool vendor, downloaded a Roblox auto-farm cheat script onto a corporate laptop. Bundled inside was the Lumma infostealer.
Continue reading on control-plane.io.Secrets Management With OpenBao
A vault or bank safe is protected by solid walls or thick doors with high-security locks. Often, it takes several keys and several people to open such a lock. The open source software OpenBao brings a comparable level of security for digital secrets – such as credentials, tokens, or SSH access to enterprise IT.
Continue reading on www.adfinis.com.March 2026
ControlPlane unveils enterprise support for OpenBao
ControlPlane has launched an enterprise support service for OpenBao, an open source secrets management platform, as organisations reassess their options following IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp.
Continue reading on channellife.com.au.Introducing Kubermatic SecureGuard: Open, Kubernetes-Native Secrets Management
Today, we are excited to introduce a new open-source secrets management platform for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments: Kubermatic SecureGuard (KubeSG).
Continue reading on www.kubermatic.com.ControlPlane Launches Enterprise Support For OpenBao To Strengthen Secrets Security
ControlPlane, a specialist AI Security and DevSecOps consultancy, today announced the launch of ControlPlane Enterprise for OpenBao, a new offering designed to help organizations securely adopt and operate the OpenBao secrets management platform.
Continue reading on control-plane.io.ControlPlane Enterprise for OpenBao - Meet the Team
As we launch ControlPlane Enterprise for OpenBao, we’re bringing our trademark capabilities and Cloud Native expertise to the forefront of secrets management. Today, we’re pulling back the curtain to introduce the experts driving this offering forward.
Continue reading on control-plane.io.February 2026
OpenBao: When to Choose the Open Source Vault Alternative
In 2023, HashiCorp changed Vault's license from Mozilla Public License (MPL) to Business Source License (BSL) 1.1. Shortly after, the community forked Vault's last MPL version, creating OpenBao — Open Source project under MPL 2.0 licensing. Let's explore the actual differences and features.
Continue reading on bespinian.io.The Guide to OpenBao
A series of engineering articles by Thomas Jungbauer about OpenBao, a HashiCorp Vault fork, and how to get started.
Continue reading on blog.stderr.at.Adfinis unveils flat-fee OpenBao-based secrets service
Adfinis has launched Secretz Enterprise, a subscription product based on the OpenBao open source project. It targets organisations that want predictable pricing for secrets management and 24/7 support.
Continue reading on itbrief.co.uk.December 2025
Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0.16-5 (2025-12-02)
Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0.16-5 is an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition.
To give you more flexibility for enterprise-grade data encryption, Percona Server for MongoDB now supports OpenBao in addition to HashiCorp Vault. OpenBao is the open-source fork of Vault, providing the same powerful security while helping you avoid vendor lock-in.
Continue reading on docs.percona.com.Interview: Adfinis CTO discusses Secrets Management and OpenBao with IT-Administrator
In an interview with IT-Administrator, Adfinis CTO Michael Hofer discusses the growing problem of "secrets sprawl", and how unencrypted credentials, fragmented access, and a lack of visibility remain critical challenges for many organizations.
Continue reading on www.adfinis.com.Adfinis unveils OpenBao services for secure secrets
Adfinis has launched a suite of open source services built around OpenBao, as the systems integrator moves to formalise its role in the emerging secrets management project.
Continue reading on securitybrief.co.uk.November 2025
OpenBao on RISC-V DeepComputing
Luca Berton, Pascal Reeb, and Toni Tauro showcase how to run OpenBao on RISC-V DeepComputing, open secrets management on open hardware.
Watch on YouTube.Crypto4A Unveils QxVault™: Secrets. Simplified.
Crypto4A Technologies Inc., a leader in quantum-safe cybersecurity solutions, today announced the launch of QxVault™, a groundbreaking secrets management platform that integrates a FIPS 140-3 Level 3 compliant Hardware Security Module (HSM) for robust management of secrets.
Continue reading on crypto4a.com.October 2025
Sustainable Secrets Management with OpenBao - Securosys User & Developer Conference 2025
Pascal Reeb's and Toni Tauro's Securosys User & Developer Conference 2025 talk, describing how to achieve sustainable, sovereign secrets management with OpenBao and Securosys HSMs.
Watch on YouTube.OpenBao Basics: How Namespaces Became a Reality
As an organization scales, so does the need for greater granularity over data access controls and compartmentalization across different domains.
Continue reading on www.adfinis.com.July 2025
OpenBao: Securing the Future of Open Source Secrets Management
In today's complex technology landscape, managing secrets such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data has become one of the biggest challenges for businesses. That's why Liquid Reply supports OpenBao, an open-source system for managing secrets and encryption based on identity, to secure data management in the cloud era.
Continue reading on liquidreply.net.February 2025
OpenBao @ GitLab - FOSDEM 2025
Namespace Request Routing - OpenBao Live Coding with Alex (cipherboy) and Andrii (driif)
Live Coding Session - February 21st, 2025
Watch as Alex (cipherboy) and Andrii (driif) live code support for request routing in the context of the upcoming Namespaces feature.
Watch on YouTube.Namespace Required Mounts - OpenBao Live Coding with Alex (cipherboy) and Jonas (satoqz)
Live Coding Session - February 25th, 2025
Watch as Alex (cipherboy) and Jonas (satoqz) live code support for request routing in the context of the upcoming Namespaces feature.
Watch on YouTube.January 2025
Tune non-HMAC parameters on sys/ - OpenBao Live Coding with Alex (cipherboy) and Jakub (jficz)
Live Coding Session - January 20th, 2025
Watch as Alex (cipherboy) and Jakub (jficz) live code support for tuning non-HMAC parameters on sys/ and other protected endpoints.
Watch on YouTube.September 2024
FreshPorts - openbao - New port: open source, community-driven fork of Vault
OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. The OpenBao community intends to provide this software under an OSI-approved open-source license, led by a community run under open governance principles.
Continue reading on www.freshports.org.December 2023
Meet OpenBao, an Open Source Fork of HashiCorp Vault
First Terraform, and now Vault: More open source code abandoned by HashiCorp is a finding a home with potential competitors.
In September, HashiCorp rivals forked Infrastructure as Code (IaC) software Terraform to create OpenTofu, after HashiCorp moved much of its core enterprise software from an open source to a Business Source License. Now the OpenBAO project has set out to maintain the open source version of HashiCorp’s widely used Vault security software.
Continue reading on thenewstack.io.Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven
The rebellion against HashiCorp for adopting a competition-limiting license for its Terraform software expanded this week, with word that The Linux Foundation aims to help hatch an open source alternative to Vault, the company's secrets management project.
Continue reading on www.theregister.com.October 2023
Hashicorp Vault Replacement Feature Design Candidate
The start of OpenBao under LF Edge's OpenHorizon project!
Continue reading on lf-edge.atlassian.net.