{"id":69599,"title":"💚 Infisical - The open source secrets manager for developers","tagline":"Open source, end-to-end encrypted tool that lets you securely sync secrets and configs across your team, devices, and infrastructure","body":"Hey there, this is team Infisical 🏂\n\n[Infisical](https://infisical.com/) is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform for developers to centralize their application secrets and configs, and sync them across their whole development life cycle.\n\nWe launched 3 months ago, and already have 4.2K+ stars on GitHub, 50 contributors, and 220+ community members 🚀\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=69599\u0026key=user_uploads/942802/00941739-4c42-44c8-92e8-e8fc55f7cb1b)\n\n\n**Imagine this**: You add a new environment variable to your team’s codebase, push it up to GitHub, and head out for dinner. Shortly after, your teammate pulls the latest changes and everything crashes because they're missing that variable.\n\nYou come back to angry messages from your teammate and quickly send them the variable over text, risking a security vulnerability. Everything seems to be working until the next day when you deploy to production, and once again, everything crashes because you forgot to add the environment variable to the production environment.\n\nSounds relatable?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=69599\u0026key=user_uploads/942802/d8e6a881-8412-4baf-8f54-b8defb0ecd46)\n\n\n## **Problem**\n\nSecrets play a critical role in every stage of the software development lifecycle, from local development to staging, testing, and production. Even so, teams routinely run into challenges dealing with secret management:\n\n* **Missing secrets across infrastructure**: Having secrets sprawled across infrastructure with no central visibility and control often leads to missing secrets. In turn, applications crash in production and developers lose precious time debugging what’s missing.\n* **Leaking secrets to source control**: Even the biggest companies accidentally expose hardcoded secrets and .env files. When it happens, the consequences are grave.\n* **Lacking self-hosted alternatives**: Many great solutions are not self-hostable or end-to-end encrypted, a challenge for companies requiring it. In a world where security and privacy are increasingly paramount, having these options are essential.\n\n## **Solution**\n\nInfisical provides an open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform for developers to manage their application secrets and sync them across their team and software development lifecycle.\n\nWith Infisical, you can:\n\n* **Securely store and deliver** application secrets to your infrastructure with integrations available for Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, etc.\n* **Inject secrets** into applications instead of using .env files that often get leaked.\n* **Self-host** Infisical on your own infrastructure.\n* **Enhance observability** of secrets and teammates with secret versioning, rollbacks, and audit logs for every action taken.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=69599\u0026key=user_uploads/942802/afe74cca-1292-4f25-b0d5-03ae9fc21327)\n\n\n## **Asks**\n\n* Check out Infisical at \u003chttps://infisical.com\u003e\n* Contact [tony@infisical.com](mailto:tony@infisical.com) if your company needs help with secret management\n* Intros to companies that in your experience may benefit from Infisical","slug":"I6Z-infisical-the-open-source-secrets-manager-for-developers","created_at":"2023-02-23T15:39:57.107Z","updated_at":"2026-05-23T19:55:01.866Z","total_vote_count":58,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6Z-infisical-the-open-source-secrets-manager-for-developers","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":27664,"name":"Infisical","slug":"infisical","url":"https://infisical.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e613a0916d0e99cf2fa52a3c8be726a00bd6c51a.png","batch":"Winter 2023","industry":"B2B","tags":["Developer Tools","SaaS","B2B","Security","Open Source"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27664"}}