Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Garnet – a developer-friendly, open-source secrets manager
Garnet is an open-source secrets manager designed for developers. It helps teams store, manage, and access sensitive information like API keys and credentials securely. The tool emphasizes ease of use and integration… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Garnet – a developer-friendly, open-source secrets manager launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN, I'm Barry and I've built Prism.Tools (https://blgardner.github.io/prism.tools/) – a collection of client-side developer utilities that respect your privacy. Many of these tools were used way back in the days when I ran a BBS and started my communities first ISP, serving three local communities with Dial-Up Internet, Web Hosting etc. The tools have been refined to reflect the changes in tech since then and designed for the Novice and Pro alike. As I locate more tools others may find useful I will refine and add them to the collection. Use them, Share them, or not.…
Jan 2026 · blgardner.github.io · its alternatives →
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Phase▲383Open source platform for teams and AI agents to securely access, manage and deploy application secrets — from development to production.
2024 · phase.dev · its alternatives →
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Garnet (https://garnet.ai) is a framework to run distributed and parallel Python on Kubernetes. We make it easy to scale from laptop to cluster, without requiring any devops work. Garnet plugs into any existing Python environment (notebook, IDE, CI/CD pipelines, custom apps) using a lightweight client library, and enables users to scale popular data/ml libraries (including pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, XGBoost, etc.) and custom code to a remote cluster for execution. Under the hood, we natively wire up Dask with Kubernetes for scheduling, which brings advantages such as…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Finally open sourced an internal tool we've been using for managing secrets. It's similar to SOPS, but more opinionated, easier to configure/use correctly, and produces nicer git diffs. It also supports one-way encryption, so you don't have to know the private key to add secrets.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Last month, we open-sourced Infisical (https://github.com/Infisical/infisical) - a simple, end-to-end encrypted tool to sync environment variables across your team and infrastructure. You can use it to store environment variables and inject them into your applications locally or into CI/CD and production infrastructure. It can be used with any language/framework and is platform independent with a super easy setup. We know secret managers exist but, in our experience, they’re too complicated, not comprehensive, not user-friendly, or a mix of all three — other…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DataPrism turns the clouds you already use into sovereign, provable, unreadable storage. Client-side encryption, one TypeScript SDK, invisible to your users.
2017 · dataprism.co · its alternatives →
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Manage Lets Encrypt certificates for a Kubernetes cluster. - kelseyhightower/kube-cert-manager
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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enject: Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes: secrets live in local encrypted stores (per project) and are injected directly into apps at runtime, never touching disk as plaintext. - GreatScott/enject
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A sensible secret management toolkit (and Go library) for admins and programmers - domodwyer/cryptic
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Develop faster, eliminate complexity, protect your secrets
2022 · 1password.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm so happy to finally show you all this release after years of hard work. I posted the first version of EnvKey to HN back in 2017 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330757), then went through YC in W18 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569534). EnvKey is an end-to-end encrypted configuration and secrets manager. It protects your organization's API keys, encryption keys, credentials, and other secrets, and makes it easy to run servers, scripts, tests, and everything else with the latest config. It also helps you avoid duplication in your…
2022 · v2.envkey.com · its alternatives →
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Manage application configuration using Kubernetes secrets, configmaps, and Go templates. - kelseyhightower/konfd
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · zemanta.github.io · its alternatives →
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Cyph is the most powerful & easiest to use encryption software available. Open source, audited, trusted. Secure your chats, video calls, files, and more.
2014 · cyph.com · its alternatives →
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Gophish - An Open-Source Phishing Framework
2016 · getgophish.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · envkey.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to fmeringdal/covert development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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