Alternatives to AWS Vault
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. AWS Vault itself: install AWS Vault.
toast
Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
croc
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:
pipenv
Python Development Workflow for Humans
git-secrets
Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories
pipx
Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments
foundry
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust
lua
A copy of the Lua development repository, as seen by the Lua team. Mirrored irregularly. All communication should be through the Lua mailing list http
sccache
Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in
consul-template
Template rendering, notifier, and supervisor for @HashiCorp Consul and Vault data
gcviewer
Fork of tagtraum industries' GCViewer. Tagtraum stopped development in 2008, I aim to improve support for Sun's / Oracle's java 1.6+ garbage collector
Crystal
(Crystal is now Nimbalyst) Run multiple Codex and Claude Code AI sessions in parallel git worktrees. Test, compare approaches & manage AI-assisted dev
docker-credential-helper-ecr
Automatically gets credentials for Amazon ECR on docker push/docker pull
reattach-to-user-namespace
Notes and workarounds for accessing the Mac OS X pasteboard in tmux sessions. Note: The pu branch (“Proposed Updates”) may be rewound without notice
aws-iam-authenticator
A tool to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster
credstash
A little utility for managing credentials in the cloud
asimov
Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups
bde
Basic Development Environment - a set of foundational C++ libraries used at Bloomberg
libpg_query
C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment
bulk_extractor
This is the development tree. Production downloads are at:
eslint_d
🪄 Speed up eslint to accelerate your development workflow
cromwell
Scientific workflow engine designed for simplicity & scalability. Trivially transition between one off use cases to massive scale production environme
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than AWS Vault — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
AWS Vault is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.