As the OpenBao community starts development on Namespaces and the Horizontal Scalability Working Group has its kickoff, I wanted to take the opportunity to put forward a blog post describing how these two groups' work can compliment each other and provide an alternative path forward other than Vault Enterprise's Performance Secondary and Disaster Recovery clustering modes.
Slides and content from Alex's FOSDEM '25 talk about OpenBao's usage at GitLab.
For a video, see our official YouTube channel or on the FOSDEM video mirror.
Hello everyone! I'm Alex Scheel, a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab and Chair of the OpenBao Technical Steering Committee. I'm here to talk about OpenBao and its usage at GitLab.
OpenBao returns from FOSDEM '25 and OpenUK's State of Open Con this week, reflecting on the travels and activities of the events.
Many thanks to Fatima for running the community calls in our absence!
photo credit: nicolas; pictured: alex
FOSDEM '25 was Alex's first time speaking at a conference and we are happy to report it was a success! The details of the talk were saved and will be published in a follow-up blog along with the recording when it is made available from the conference. It was great to meet so many people interested in identity and access management and OpenBao's role in solving secrets management problems, at GitLab and beyond.
Follow along with OpenBao's travels this week as we attend FOSDEM '25 and State of Open Con!
Check out Alex's talk at FOSDEM, on Sunday, February 2nd, at 2:05 PM GMT+1 in room UA2.118 (Henriot) as part of the Identity and Access Management track.
If you can't attend in person, it will also be live streamed.
From snowy Minnesota, BaoBao took its first ride to London Heathrow to begin its voyage to FOSDEM '25. With a brief layover, it explored King's Cross and the Coal Drops Yard. Rich with history, this area has long been used as a rail hub for the UK and now is connected to Europe via the Channel Tunnel.
I'm happy to share that OpenBao will be present at two conferences in February: FOSDEM '25 in Brussels and State of Open Con 2025 in London!
The second half of 2024 saw several fabulous RFCs from different contributors to OpenBao. Here's a few worth highlighting and how you can get involved!
I'm pleased to announce that our first direction and roadmap document has been approved by the TSC!
This represents a major commitment to openness for this project. Historically, upstream hasn't published an open roadmap or collaborated with the community on a shared vision and direction for their project.
\o Hello OpenBao community!
In our last community post, we said:
Join the community and its leadership today.
But you said: it is not clear how!
Good news: Our community roles are approved and live!
We asked one of our Gen Z community members to describe OpenBao recently. They wrote the following: