A static database password is a secret with no expiry date, known to everyone who has ever seen it. Dynamic credentials replace it with a user created on request and dropped when the lease ends. Here's how we run that on OpenBao, and the desktop client we wrote so the secure path is also the quick one.

Most teams leaving Vault Enterprise only use features that OpenBao and free Vault already have. The hard part of the move is the configuration, not the secrets, so we built an open source tool to migrate it. This post covers how the tool works and what it can't move.

Discover how OpenBao, the open-source alternative to HashiCorp Vault, delivers secure, community-driven secrets management.