Infisical
Open-source secrets, certificates, and privileged-access platform that centralizes credentials, short-lived keys, PKI, and audit workflows for teams. It centralizes and secures API keys, environment variables, database credentials, TLS certificates, and SSH access with RBAC, rotation, and audit to reduce secret sprawl and hard-to-rotate credentials.
It is suited for individual developers, small engineering teams, and security/DevOps groups that need developer-friendly SDKs, CI integration, RBAC, certificate lifecycle, and basic audit and approval workflows. It addresses secret sprawl, static SSH keys and long-lived credentials, manual certificate lifecycle work, and the need to inject secrets into CI and local development.
Use Cases
- Store API keys for personal bots and side projects
- Replace static SSH keys with short-lived signed certificates
- Manage personal TLS certificates for self-hosted services
- Inject secrets into local dev containers and CI
- Centralize secrets for microservices and CI pipelines
- Run internal PKI for service-to-service TLS and devices
- Rotate database and third-party API credentials automatically
Strengths
- Central secret store with RBAC and access controls
- Automatic rotation and short-lived credentials reduce blast radius
- Built-in private CA and certificate lifecycle management
- SSH access via signed certificates, not static keys
- Developer-first SDKs, CLI, and CI integrations for workflows
- Audit logs and approval flows for traceability and governance
- Open-source core lowers licensing cost and enables inspection
- Self-host friendly: open-source core and deployment flexibility
Limitations
- Some enterprise capabilities are commercial, not in MIT core
- Self-hosting requires ops effort for uptime, backups, upgrades
- Managed-cloud residency and enterprise specifics require confirmation
- Potential managed-feature lock-in; migration guarantees unclear (Unverified)
Final Thoughts
Try it now if you want an OSS platform that combines secrets, PKI, and SSH with developer SDKs, and your team can operate a self-hosted instance or accept managed-cloud trade-offs. Delay if you require documented enterprise SLAs, verified managed-residency guarantees, or if you lack ops capacity to self-host.
Choose the managed cloud when you need reduced operational burden, vendor support, or formal SLAs; verify residency and enterprise specifics with sales before production adoption.