My main use case for HashiCorp Vault is to store secrets in HashiCorp, where in production domain or in test domain, I will vault secrets or passwords through AD protected, database protected, GCP, and other methods. Let me explain how I use HashiCorp Vault in my daily work. When a user raises a change task request to vault secrets to HashiCorp, they provide the namespace, the environment where they need to vault, the environment secrets, car ID, application name, and which environment they need to vault in, whether AD, database, or GCP. Then we open the Airflow tool, where HashiCorp Vault is available. We click on the appropriate option. If the user has requested AD protected, then we go through the AD protected section in HashiCorp Vault, and we create and provide the passwords and secrets, then trigger that button. Once that button is triggered and the secret is vaulted, we can see that in HashiCorp Vault prod or test environment domain that the user has specified. Then we go there and verify whether the secret has been vaulted. Then we provide the API path to the user. The user can then retrieve the passwords through the API path. Because when the organization hires production teams, they run some applications beyond working hours. At that time, they need some servers or applications to be logged in. For that, some passwords or secrets will be altered in CyberArk or HashiCorp Vault. They need to retrieve the password or secrets from HashiCorp Vault, which means they need some API paths or they can retrieve them directly. This will take less time and save more money because every time you want to raise a ticket, it takes time and that person needs to provide the secret, which takes more time. Once it is vaulted, the secret will remain statically in HashiCorp Vault until you rotate or delete it. Whenever you want, whether one year, one month, two months, or three months later, you can retrieve that secret. This will save time and money, and more than one employee can retrieve that secret. It will be more beneficial for us.
Lead Infrastructure Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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Top 10
Dec 2, 2025
HashiCorp Vault is used mainly to store secrets and for dynamic injection, primarily for all microservices exclusively in the Kubernetes field. Microservices are deployed as Kubernetes pods, and the pods need to access secrets. Kubernetes secrets cannot be relied upon as anyone can decode them. HashiCorp Vault is used to store all the secrets, and the pod accesses HashiCorp Vault using a service account. The secrets are dynamically injected whenever there is a requirement. Both the open-source and enterprise versions of HashiCorp Vault are used to handle all secrets as a secrets manager. HashiCorp Vault has been integrated with Terraform and Consul for some POCs.
Managing Trustee and CTO at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
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Top 10
Oct 30, 2025
My main use case for HashiCorp Vault is that it provides storage for secrets across multiple clouds. It stores the secrets securely, allowing controlled access through various measures such as ciphers and identity-based access controls.
The main use cases for HashiCorp Vault are dynamic secrets and certificate management, which provide security, such as securing banking systems from the application side, giving them appropriate control access, and dynamic access to privilege systems. This encompasses complete secret lifecycle management. Additional key use-case is on dynamic data encryption/decryption.
My primary use case for HashiCorp Vault is secret management. I keep my secrets away from the cluster in Vault, which acts as my secret manager. I remotely ingest with the help of Vaulting into the cluster.
The solution's typical use case is machine-to-machine communication, particularly in environments where development teams use various tools throughout the software development lifecycle. This includes scenarios where continuous integration is crucial. For instance, developers might manage various microservices or DNS services that frequently change. The solution facilitates secure and seamless authentication and integration of services, making it easier to manage service accounts and passwords.
I currently push secret data to our target namespaces. Before joining the company, I managed everything in HashiCorp Vault, but now I'm just a consumer. We use it to store service principal credentials for Azure provisioning.
Project Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
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Mar 30, 2022
We're a VoIP service provider, and we have a lot of particular requirements. Whatever we use must have a RESTful API. We also have very particular requirements around our backup, logging, and key lifecycle. That's because we have an American parent, who applies a lot of niche standards. My parent company is a big client of theirs. So, the overall group engages HashiCorp. It has gotten to the point where they actually reference HashiCorp as the tool of choice. I ran a really detailed proof of concept for our business for six months. I got from HashiCorp one of their premium licenses, and we ran a test of it for six months, but it is not in use at the moment. We were using it for an on-prem implementation. I personally tested the HashiCorp cloud (HCP) on my personal laptop. I tested the premium version, which is the binary download, but it doesn't allow you to do clusters. It was a very limited use case, but we needed something on-prem. We are all on-prem. We don't operate in the cloud. So, we needed something to work with our on-prem setup. So, we weren't not doing a trial of the cloud version.
One of our primary use cases of HashiCorp Vault is security, to keep things secret. Instead of going for any particular cloud-based solution, this is cloud agnostic. We can go for any cloud solution when we have a hybrid solution in place, so Vault is always recommended for it. This solution is cloud-based.
Founder & Principal Architect at NCompas Business Solutions Inc.
Real User
Mar 16, 2021
Primarily, we use this solution for the secret management side of things. Initially, we were using Azure Key Vault, but we kind of shifted to HashiCorp Vault because we are using Terraform scripts, etc. We needed a common storage mechanism.
We are currently conducting a PoC with HashiCorp vault to see if it meets our requirements. I have ten different use cases for the evaluation. We are integrating it into our Key Management Service. In my previous company, we were using it to store all of our keys and secret certificates.
TechOps Engineer - Middleware & Containers specialist at EBRC -European Business Reliance Centre
Real User
May 23, 2019
This is a Secrets Management framework to manage a keystore, certificates, and passwords dynamically in a Platform as a Service context, such as Vanilla Kubernetes Platforms, Rancher, Meso, Tectonic, and Origin/OpenShift Enterprise Platforms. Whatever the platform, this product can help provide good security and be PCI Compliant.
HashiCorp Vault is a cloud-agnostic solution used for security and secret management. Its valuable features include integration with other HashiCorp tools, token sharing, open source nature, cloud agnosticism, and on-the-fly encryption management.
The solution provides encryption of data at rest, in use, in transit, on the fly, and linked with applications. It is free to use, and the interface is simple to navigate. HashiCorp Vault has helped organizations with its multiple...
My main use case for HashiCorp Vault is to store secrets in HashiCorp, where in production domain or in test domain, I will vault secrets or passwords through AD protected, database protected, GCP, and other methods. Let me explain how I use HashiCorp Vault in my daily work. When a user raises a change task request to vault secrets to HashiCorp, they provide the namespace, the environment where they need to vault, the environment secrets, car ID, application name, and which environment they need to vault in, whether AD, database, or GCP. Then we open the Airflow tool, where HashiCorp Vault is available. We click on the appropriate option. If the user has requested AD protected, then we go through the AD protected section in HashiCorp Vault, and we create and provide the passwords and secrets, then trigger that button. Once that button is triggered and the secret is vaulted, we can see that in HashiCorp Vault prod or test environment domain that the user has specified. Then we go there and verify whether the secret has been vaulted. Then we provide the API path to the user. The user can then retrieve the passwords through the API path. Because when the organization hires production teams, they run some applications beyond working hours. At that time, they need some servers or applications to be logged in. For that, some passwords or secrets will be altered in CyberArk or HashiCorp Vault. They need to retrieve the password or secrets from HashiCorp Vault, which means they need some API paths or they can retrieve them directly. This will take less time and save more money because every time you want to raise a ticket, it takes time and that person needs to provide the secret, which takes more time. Once it is vaulted, the secret will remain statically in HashiCorp Vault until you rotate or delete it. Whenever you want, whether one year, one month, two months, or three months later, you can retrieve that secret. This will save time and money, and more than one employee can retrieve that secret. It will be more beneficial for us.
HashiCorp Vault is used mainly to store secrets and for dynamic injection, primarily for all microservices exclusively in the Kubernetes field. Microservices are deployed as Kubernetes pods, and the pods need to access secrets. Kubernetes secrets cannot be relied upon as anyone can decode them. HashiCorp Vault is used to store all the secrets, and the pod accesses HashiCorp Vault using a service account. The secrets are dynamically injected whenever there is a requirement. Both the open-source and enterprise versions of HashiCorp Vault are used to handle all secrets as a secrets manager. HashiCorp Vault has been integrated with Terraform and Consul for some POCs.
My main use case for HashiCorp Vault is that it provides storage for secrets across multiple clouds. It stores the secrets securely, allowing controlled access through various measures such as ciphers and identity-based access controls.
We use Hashicorp Vault for secrets management.
The main use cases for HashiCorp Vault are dynamic secrets and certificate management, which provide security, such as securing banking systems from the application side, giving them appropriate control access, and dynamic access to privilege systems. This encompasses complete secret lifecycle management. Additional key use-case is on dynamic data encryption/decryption.
My primary use case for HashiCorp Vault is secret management. I keep my secrets away from the cluster in Vault, which acts as my secret manager. I remotely ingest with the help of Vaulting into the cluster.
The solution's typical use case is machine-to-machine communication, particularly in environments where development teams use various tools throughout the software development lifecycle. This includes scenarios where continuous integration is crucial. For instance, developers might manage various microservices or DNS services that frequently change. The solution facilitates secure and seamless authentication and integration of services, making it easier to manage service accounts and passwords.
I currently push secret data to our target namespaces. Before joining the company, I managed everything in HashiCorp Vault, but now I'm just a consumer. We use it to store service principal credentials for Azure provisioning.
We use HashiCorp Vault to manage and keep all secrets and configurations in SQL. It works as central storage, securing different environments.
We use it for password management.
We use the solution to store and encrypt the passwords.
We're a VoIP service provider, and we have a lot of particular requirements. Whatever we use must have a RESTful API. We also have very particular requirements around our backup, logging, and key lifecycle. That's because we have an American parent, who applies a lot of niche standards. My parent company is a big client of theirs. So, the overall group engages HashiCorp. It has gotten to the point where they actually reference HashiCorp as the tool of choice. I ran a really detailed proof of concept for our business for six months. I got from HashiCorp one of their premium licenses, and we ran a test of it for six months, but it is not in use at the moment. We were using it for an on-prem implementation. I personally tested the HashiCorp cloud (HCP) on my personal laptop. I tested the premium version, which is the binary download, but it doesn't allow you to do clusters. It was a very limited use case, but we needed something on-prem. We are all on-prem. We don't operate in the cloud. So, we needed something to work with our on-prem setup. So, we weren't not doing a trial of the cloud version.
One of our primary use cases of HashiCorp Vault is security, to keep things secret. Instead of going for any particular cloud-based solution, this is cloud agnostic. We can go for any cloud solution when we have a hybrid solution in place, so Vault is always recommended for it. This solution is cloud-based.
Primarily, we use this solution for the secret management side of things. Initially, we were using Azure Key Vault, but we kind of shifted to HashiCorp Vault because we are using Terraform scripts, etc. We needed a common storage mechanism.
We are currently conducting a PoC with HashiCorp vault to see if it meets our requirements. I have ten different use cases for the evaluation. We are integrating it into our Key Management Service. In my previous company, we were using it to store all of our keys and secret certificates.
This is a Secrets Management framework to manage a keystore, certificates, and passwords dynamically in a Platform as a Service context, such as Vanilla Kubernetes Platforms, Rancher, Meso, Tectonic, and Origin/OpenShift Enterprise Platforms. Whatever the platform, this product can help provide good security and be PCI Compliant.