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IBM Bob writes a Vault secrets engine (opens in new tab)

For about five years or so, I've reverse-engineered my way through building Vault secrets engines (AKA a type of plugin). While Vault has a number of them already built, I often want Vault to manage all of my secrets and it doesn't support a few of them. As a result, I end up building my own, such as ones to manage HCP Terraform API tokens or Vault as a session token service. Unlike plugin development for Terraform, Vault does not have any frameworks to expedite plugin development. After forg...

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