Keyorix is a new open-source secrets manager designed to run completely on a company's own infrastructure. It is aimed at organizations that are not allowed, or do not want, to hand their credentials to a cloud provider.

For readers less familiar with the category, a secrets manager is a protected store from which applications pull the sensitive values they need to run, such as database passwords, API keys and access tokens. The point is to keep those values out of configuration files and source code, where they tend to leak. As a recent case showed, GitHub repositories still expose large numbers of valid credentials.

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