Akeyless Developer Center
Welcome to the developer hub and documentation for Akeyless!
Secure Application, Workload, and AI Agent Access
Give applications, workloads, automation, and AI agents secure access to the resources they need without relying on long-lived credentials. Akeyless provides short-lived, identity-based access while centrally managing the secrets, certificates, and keys that still need to exist across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
Documentation
Learn how to integrate Akeyless into your applications, workloads, infrastructure, and AI agents. Explore APIs, SDKs, authentication methods, dynamic secrets, certificates, encryption keys, privileged access, and integrations across cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and developer environments.
Tutorials
With the videos and guides here, you should be able to gain a strong understanding of how to use the Akeyless Platform, from beginner through advanced stages.
Unified Platform Capabilities
Secure machine, AI agent, and human identities across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments with one platform for secrets, privileged access, certificates, encryption keys, and runtime identity security.
AI Security
Secure AI agents from credential access through runtime execution. Akeyless keeps secrets out of agents’ hands, brokers just-in-time access, enforces intent-aware policy, and provides full traceability of agent actions.
Secrets Management
Centralize and secure credentials, certificates, and keys across your CI/CD pipeline, reducing both the cost and complexity of vault management.
Certificate Lifecycle Management
Streamlined certificate automation built for efficiency and simplicity.
Universal Secrets Connector / Multi-Vault Governance
Akeyless “Bring Your Own Vault” — a single platform to manage all your secrets.
Encryption & Key Management
Your credentials, keys, and certificates are only as secure as your encryption. Take control of your encryption keys and encrypted data with Akeyless.
Modern PAM / Secure Remote Access
Manage user access with a Zero Trust approach and secure your infrastructure by enabling role-based authentication and temporary Just-in-Time access permissions.
Password Manager
Browser plugin for creating and securing employee passwords.
Platform extensions
Modern PAM / Secure Remote Access
Encryption & KMS
Password Manager
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Akeyless?
Akeyless is an Identity Security Platform for securing machine, AI agent, and human identities across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. It combines secrets management, Modern PAM, certificate lifecycle management, encryption and KMS, Multi-Vault Governance, and AI agent security in one platform.
Is Akeyless a secrets manager?
Akeyless includes enterprise secrets management, but the platform extends beyond storing and rotating secrets. It also supports short-lived, identity-based access, privileged access, certificates, encryption keys, machine identities, and AI agent security.
What is secretless access?
Secretless access lets applications, workloads, and other identities authenticate and access resources without storing long-lived credentials. Akeyless can issue short-lived, just-in-time credentials when access is required and automatically expire or revoke them afterward.
How does Akeyless secure AI agents?
Akeyless keeps credentials out of AI agents and governs their access to enterprise systems. SecretlessAI® brokers just-in-time access without exposing credentials to the agent, while Agentic Runtime Authority evaluates and enforces what agents are allowed to do at runtime.
How does Akeyless protect encryption keys and secrets?
Akeyless uses patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™ (DFC) as the foundation of its Zero-Knowledge Architecture. Key fragments are generated and stored separately, cryptographic operations are performed without assembling the full key, and the customer retains control of a required fragment in their own environment. This means Akeyless cannot access or reconstruct customer keys and secrets.
Does Akeyless support machine and workload identities?
Yes. Akeyless supports authentication and access for applications, workloads, services, automation, and other non-human identities using methods including cloud identities, Kubernetes identities, certificates, and SPIFFE/SPIRE.
Can Akeyless be used across multiple clouds and on-prem environments?
Yes. Akeyless is designed for cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments, with a SaaS control plane and customer-deployed Gateways for local access, policy enforcement, and cryptographic operations.