5 posts tagged with "announcement"

We’re excited to welcome OpenBao to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) as a newly accepted sandbox project!

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets and encryption management system that helps organizations securely store, manage, and audit access to sensitive data like API keys, passwords, and certificates. Originally developed under LF Edge and forked from HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao has now found its new home in the OpenSSF, where it aligns more directly with the needs of security professionals and open source maintainers.

“Joining OpenSSF has been a dream come true,” said Alex Scheel, Chair of the OpenBao Technical Steering Committee. “This wouldn’t be possible without the support of OpenSSF’s Technical Advisory Council—many thanks for their help and consideration!”

We are excited to introduce Namespaces to the OpenBao Secret Manager – a powerful feature designed to bring robust multi-tenancy and fine-grained isolation to your secrets management workflows.

What Are Namespaces?​

Namespaces in OpenBao are logical partitions within a single OpenBao instance, functioning as isolated environments where teams, organizations, or applications can operate independently.

Each namespace acts like a mini-OpenBao, with its own policies, authentication methods, secret engines, tokens, and identity groups. This architecture enables organizations to implement a true OpenBao-as-a-Service model, empowering internal customers to self-manage their environments securely and efficiently.

Great news for the OpenBao community! In a major step towards enhancing its own security and openness, EdgeX Foundry has officially adopted OpenBao as its default secret store for the EdgeX 4.0 release.

What is EdgeX Foundry?​

For those unfamiliar, EdgeX Foundry is an open-source, IoT/edge computing framework hosted by the Linux Foundation. It’s designed to enable seamless communication between devices, applications and services using a flexible, microservices-based architecture. Whether you’re working in automation, energy, or building management, EdgeX helps bring everything together in a standardized way.

We are thrilled to announce the availability of OpenBao v2.1.0, focused on safety and scalability improvements!

This release spent some time laying the groundwork for safety and scalability improvements for releases to come. With the help of the community, OpenBao will now take advantage of transactional storage semantics from its underlying data store, giving operators and plugin developers confidence in the consistency of storage writes. This storage safety allows us to focus on alternative storage layouts for improving scalability, for instance, increasing the maximum number of mount table entries past the single-entry limit.

This release also features contributions from many new and repeat contributors; thank you all!

We are thrilled to announce the availability of OpenBao v2.0.0, its initial GA release!

It was fabulous to see contributors and member companies from a wide range of backgrounds come together to support OpenBao over the past several months and build an initial GA release in the open. This release focuses mostly on stabilizing the fork, reducing the binary size, and giving the community room to make the decisions it needs to ensure a healthy start to the ecosystem.