Tutorial
Vault credential brokering quickstart
Learn how to use Vault to broker secrets to Boundary clients.
Use case
Dynamic secrets management
Leverage the Vault integration to broker Vault secrets to Boundary clients via the command line and desktop clients for use in Boundary sessions.
Challenge
Long-lived credentials pose a major risk for users and organizations
Many organizations have hard-coded credentials in source code, littered throughout configuration files and configuration management tools, and stored in plaintext in version control, wikis, and shared volumes. Safeguarding and ensuring that credentials are not leaked — or in the event they are, that the organization can quickly revoke access and remediate — is a complex problem to solve.
Solution
Create automated dynamic credentials across your environment
Enable Boundary as a credential broker for infrastructure targets by binding credentials with user sessions and surfacing those credentials during session initialization. A dynamic secret is generated on demand and is unique to a client, instead of a static secret, which is defined ahead of time and shared. Vault associates each dynamic secret with a lease and automatically destroys the credentials when the lease expires. Vault supports dynamic secrets with a wide range of systems and is easily extensible with plugins.
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How Boundary works
Boundary is a secure remote access solution that provides an easy way to allow access to applications and critical systems with fine-grained authorizations based on trusted identities across clouds, local datacenters, and low-trust networks.
Armon Dadgar
CO-FOUNDER & CTO