Why HashiCorp Vault is killing your deploy speed

I've spent years as a penetration tester and security engineer, and I've seen firsthand how HashiCorp Vault can slow down deployments. In one particularly egregious case, a single misconfigured Vault instance cost us $12,000 in lost productivity over the course of a month. The problem isn't Vault itself, but how we're using it. In this post, I'll show you why HashiCorp Vault is killing your deploy speed and how to fix it. [EXTERNAL_LINK: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs ]

SECTION 1: The Real Problem with HashiCorp Vault

The real problem with HashiCorp Vault is that it's often used as a makeshift secrets manager, rather than a robust security solution. This can lead to slow deployments, as teams wait for Vault to authenticate and authorize access to sensitive data. For example, I worked with a team that was using Vault to store API keys for their microservices.…