Universal Secrets Connector
While Akeyless is built to store, manage, and protect your secrets internally, it can also be used to manage secrets stored on other Secret Management services like AWS, GCP, Azure, or Kubernetes. This can be done seamlessly by creating a Universal Secrets Connector (USC) that utilizes Targets to create local "windows" into the related services, effectively letting you manage them indirectly. Each USC item derives its permissions from the identity linked to its Target.
When a user is granted read access to a USC item, they can act using the permissions of that underlying identity. With USC, you can unify governance and visibility across fragmented secret stores without migrating data or altering existing workflows.
Universal Secret Connector is also supported by the Akelyess K8s Injector, allowing Kubernetes applications and workloads to access secrets and credentials sourced through USC securely.
After connecting to your Universal Secrets source, you will be able to manage them from Akeyless, including viewing, adding, updating, deleting, and syncing secrets. The exact secret information that can be displayed in Akeyless varies between providers according to their unique attributes.
The USC solution works in a governance loop model, supporting and reflecting any changes made to your secrets, either from the Akeyless side or from the remote Secret Management solution. This is done automatically as Akeyless doesn't store a copy of the external secrets, ensuring that data residency and security policies remain untouched. The USC simply reflects them in real time, without any requirements or changes that should be made on the remote Secret Management endpoint.
Akeyless currently supports creating Universal Secrets Connectors for the following services:
To view all your Universal Secret Connectors, log in to the Console and navigate to Items > Universal Secrets Connector.
Tutorial
Check out our tutorial video on Universal Secrets Connectors.
Updated 20 days ago